After the orientation was over, Alex, Brittany, Jessica and I stayed at MCI because we have free WIFI!! We were all able to talk to our parents and to our friends, which was amazing. After that we went to get a phone to be able to contact each other, instead of having to rely on wifi spots and Facebook. It is taking me back to 8th grade when I had my flip phone and have to type in ABC format. I can't switch the ring tone or anything, but it gets the job done. It is hard going from an iphone to this phone lol. It took a lot longer to get the phone issue situated, so we then went straight to The Galway Bay Irish pub for a social our exchange leader put together. They had a live band there from 7:30-10:30. Alex and I stayed until about 10:20 and then we decided to go back to the dorm because we were extremely tired and did not want to miss the last bus at 10:39!! If we were to miss that bus we would have to walk the long 20 minute walk back to our dorm! We ended up getting a burger at Burger King while we waited on our second bus, which is very American, but it definitely hit the spot for both of us! I got back to the dorm around 10:45 pm and was completely drained because we left our dorm at 9am that morning.
The second day of orientation was today, March 5, 2013, and it was about the online system, which I had already figured out. So I did not listen one bit and stared at the mountains the entire time. We also were facebooking and texting each other! haha. After the lecture, we had a time slot to come back to get our classes situated. A lot of exchange students had overlapping courses, so they had to drop and class and then add others. I was looking into the German course, but it would be hard to travel and take that class at the same time, so I decided to keep my schedule the way it is. The one bad thing about my schedule is that I am separated from everyone else I know. I believe they did the class schedule based on your last name and mine is way off from the others, so I am not happy about that. The one good this is that we can still study together for the exams! :)
After getting our classes situated we went with our buddy to set up our bank account, get our bus pass and get the train discount ticket. It will take awhile for our bank account to be set up because of the huge volume of exchange students. Next Monday I will go sign the contract for the bank and then during that week I will have to get my mom to go to Wells Fargo to wire the money to my account. It will then take another week to get my bank card. :( The bus pass was the most expensive thing I have had to buy here for school; it was 124,90 euro. The bus pass was not expensive at all, but we had to pay 5 euro just to get a picture of the pass; that ticked me off!!
We were all starving by the time we were finished getting everything sorted, so we stopped at a place called Theresien Brau. We thought they were having happy hour, but when we got there we saw it was only from 3-5 pm and it was 6:15. :( We split a pitcher of the beer (which they only have 1 of at this bar) and each got a meal. I got the Schinkenrahmspatzln, which is dumplings with ham and a creme sauce. It was very delicious but very dense and I could not finish it. After that, we all went our seperate ways and I will be headed to bed in about 30 minutes.
Tomorrow all the exchange students head to Salzburg bright and early at 7am, so I have to get up at 5:30am. I have extremely excited for the trip, but not to get up that early.
Gute nacht, ya'll.
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