A typical day in Germany

Since the Uni has begun I've been doing a lot of the same stuff. To give you an idea of what I'm up to I'll map out a typical day for you:

Mornings

I usually rise fairly late except on Mondays when I have class at 8.30. Maybe play a bit of guitar (I bought a cheapy here - nothing special but it does the job) before heading into town for lunch at the Mensa (it's a university eating house with a large variety of cheap food to choose from) with the other foreigners.

Afternoons

Can involve many things. If I don't have class it'll be chatting with one or two of the others, or doing some reading in a cafe if the weather's bad. Otherwise I'll be on a lawn somewhere doing the same or playing some frisbee. On Fridays we tend to play a bit of round-ball football at around 5.

Dinner

More often than not I'm out for dinner. Sometimes we have a communal dinner at someone's place, but not as often as during the language course due to lack of facilities to cook for so many. Sometimes it's take away dinner - there are tonnes of Doner Kebab shops here and although it's no Alasya, it comes pretty close sometimes. Sometimes it's eating in a restaurant with the others. We have our favourites: Saturday evening we tend to head to Brennessel (Stinging Nettle) for 1.80€ Spaghetti Bolognese. We also tend to spend a bit of time at the Italian restaurant Bella Italia, the student restaurant Schlappen and the restaurant/brewing house Feierling. Beer goes well with food and I tend to drink beer regularly here - it's kind of the norm.

Evenings

In the evening we usually either go to the Italian Eiscafe Portafino (Gelateria Portafino) for an ice-cream, or we head out to the pubs. Wednesday evenings it's the Stusie bar (Stusie is a student residence of 1500 people - many of us live there - I was one of them during the language course). Afterwards I tend to spend a bit of time with the American before heading to bed.