Hallo aus Deutschland!

Germersheim...Oh what a beautiful little Stadt

After what seems like forever, I'm now in Germany starting my second semester abroad. I haven't posted in a while as I've been at home catching up with everyone and was lucky enough to spend 3 weeks travelling with a friend.

The journey here was super fast compared with Granada, the flight was a little over an hour and it only took an hour and half to get from Frankfurt airport to Germersheim on trains. People have been super friendly here too, helping me get my suitcases on and off the trains as well as not losing their rag because my German isn't the best. 

Over the next 3 months I'm really hoping to improve my German, it doesn't gel with me like Spanish does which I've found really hard to overcome and it's kind of hindered my learning. But here I am willing to learn and trying my best. 

My first day was a little bit of a nightmare, it turned out that I wasn't on the university mailing list here so hadn't received any information about anything. I missed the language test because of this and I wasn't enrolled on any courses. My inner stress head came out and my day was ruined. Did I mention that I dropped my dinner in front of a bunch of strangers too? Ah well.

Things seem to be on the up now though and I'm starting to enjoy myself. The day after the panic, I got myself enrolled and on a course with 5 other lovely girls that are also learning German. With the help of one of my course mates, I registered myself at the town hall and sorted out my student card. A few of us have already had lunch together too and since I'm in Germany, I treated myself to Currywurst. I also found out that a few people from my course live in the same accommodation as me so that's a bonus too! We're hoping to make some plans and visit other places in Germany as we have Mondays off.

As for the Easter weekend, I'm going to visit a friend in Bamberg.

Annie
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