Baverian Crap, Raucherfrei my ass and the World Cup

I know what you are thinking. You are thinking, my God, why the hell hasn't Justin been updating this thing? I mean, is he so busy that he cannot find 15 minutes in his easy life just to inform his lonely public of his wanderings and doings and goings on and whatnot? Well, the short answer is no, and the slightly longer answer is I have not felt like it. With this in mind, let me try to update you on what has been going on. Well, first of all, Daniela and I are now officially settled and moved in to our new apartment. It was a devastingly long move for me down the hall way (about 50 feet away) and took forever to complete. We have it all decorate and crap, and I will provide photos later.

What else is new? I was in good old Horba last weekend for Easter, which was a good time, as we went to two birthday parties, and I got to practice my drunken German a bit more, and eat a bunch. Good times. One time after having some coffee in the afternoon, there was some crappy ass Baverian music that some kids were seeing. You see this kind of pathetic attempt at entertainment all the time on TV, as these little lederhosen bastards sing historic ballades that idoligize such earth shatteringly important subjects as how cute baby chickens are and the purty mountains. There has been some call from Baverians to seperate from Germany in the past, and I hope that they are still persuing this, as I would be in favor if nothing else to get this off the damn television.

In other stupid German news, all of the train stations are Raucherfrei (No Smoking) except in designated areas, but to Germans, this matters not. People smoke everywhere, and since most stations are quite open it is usually not an issue of annoyance, but there is a point of priniciple that I hate. The most common place to see people smoking is near the signs that say NO smoking!!!! There are little ashtrays to put out your cigarettes, as if they would pay attention and throw their precious cancer sticks away, and they like to congregate there, and smoke away. Ah, a nice law abiding society.....

In other train news, Daniela and I each recently bought World Cup discount train cards, that were only 19 euros and good for four months. However, if Germany wins a round in the games, then we get the card for another month, and if they win the whole thing, then we get it till the end of the year. The purpose of the card is to encourage people to travel to the cities were games are played, but I do not even care about going to the city, I just want them to win so I can get my card longer, so, Go Germany!!!!

SCHOOL.....AGAIN

Classes started this week, well, to be more specific, the semester started as I only had a couple of classes. Most of them have been postponed till next week, which is cool because that just means one less week of classes, and from extensive experiments I have been conducting also means less work. Before the excitement of nearly almost one class a day, I had a special treat last Saturday night, as Daniela and I were invited over to Erisa's house, for some traditional food from her native land, Japan. Everything was most excellent, and we had a good time chatting the night away, though she became utterly confused when I explained to her that Americans don't really use the metric system, which she still cannot fathom. Also last weekend was the moving in process by Daniela and I into our new apartment together. It was not a bad move (down the hallway from my old place), but still a pain to get everything organized, which is still a work in progress. We have much more space now than before, and the best part no matter how busy our days are, we are guaranteed to see each other at night and complain about our days.

What can I say about my classes so far? Well, I have barely seen them, and learned about as much as one does about healthy eating from George Forman. Otherwise not a whole lot is going on.....