There Are So Many Foreigners Here. I'm One Too.

I'm back.

I've got some down time with my laundry in the washing machine, let's make good use of it!

I guess the next thing that happened is the whole meeting people part, which has been pretty cool. I'm here with Junior Year in Munich along with 40 or so other people, but I'm early. There are other people here though, people from JYM and the US that are here the whole academic year rather that just summer. When I picked up my key on Monday the woman at the JYM office, Sommer, mentioned a couple people who would try to come find me this week. I hadn't heard from them until Wednesday when they came out and found me. They were Sam and Scott, from Miami of Ohio and Wooster, respectively. They later invited me to a taco night on Friday.

On Friday I met a bunch of other folks, Blaine, Harrison, and Zack, to name a few. All JYM people. From the sound of it the whole JYM crowd is a bit "clicky". I don't mean that they make weird noises (though I'm not saying they don't) I mean that they form little groups that are a little bit hostile; I can't remember how to spell the word. I'm interested to see what it's like when everyone is back. The tacos were good.

From there I went on to meet some Germans, some Irish, an English girl, and some people from Slovakia. They were all hanging out in "The Pot". For those of you at Michigan, think "Blue Apple" but less new and shiny and also serves alcohol. A better comparison might be the "Halfway Inn" in East Quad. All that aside, it is a pretty neat little hang out.

The Germans are really into fooseball over here, but they call it "Kicker" to avoid confusing it with Soccer, which is "Fußball" auf Deutsch. I'm really bad and most of them aren't.

On Saturday we went "Schlitten", or sledding. I have pictures!

This is the group:


This is the hill:


This is what the sleds looked like:


I guess they're called something along the lines of "butt sleds". You sit on the back and hold onto that handle and fly down the hill. They look kinda funny but they're definitely pretty cool.

The sledding hill was north of my room, by the arena where FC Bayern plays. That's a soccer team.

This is the arena; it lights up at night:


I enjoyed finally going sledding this year; I've missed out until now.

We kinda hung out after that.

That's all for now. Take care.