Today was an exhausting but VERY successful and eventful day. I registered at the City of Bochum (Bürgerbüro – like an office for burgers, hoho-hohoho). I registered for my classes.  I registered for a one day 12 euro trip to Amsterdam in April. And I signed up for kickbox! I learned how to use the printer and the copy machine at the campus copy center. → I printed my NRW ticket with which I can travel for free across the whole extensive Bundesland Nordhein-Westfalen.

I also went to the Mensa which is, by the way, the biggest place I have ever seen. Since the Ruhr Universität Bochum is built as one huge campus (not spread throughout the city like most of the universities in the Czech Republic), it also has one Mensa in the center of it. For all of the 40 000 students. It is kind of scary to be in such a huge place with so many people but when you manage to overcome the anxiety, it is awesome. There are maybe hundreds (tens and tens at least) of different kinds of food you can chose, all labeled with pictures which show whether it is vegan, vegetarian, with fish or meat and also which allergens it contains. Everything works perfectly, there are no long lines at the cash-registers and after the campus guides explained us the logics of the place, one can even find the food they want.

After running between all the registration places there and back (and there and back again; not everything runs smoothly in Germany), I am at a peaceful place. Almost all the bureaucracy is done. I only need to take the German placement test and adjust my Learning agreement accordingly and that should be all, hopefully.

Huge thanks to Joana who helped me with all of this.

In the afternoon, we had a Campus Rallye;  a team competition which including (more) running around the campus, finding out different information and most importantly – challenges. For example stuffing as many marshmallows in your mouth and repeating a famous German sentence. Or singing a song at the most crowded bridge leading to the U-bahn station (of course our group decided to sing Du Hast by Rammstein).

ONLY ONE WEEK UNTIL THE SCHOOL STARTS.

Rule of the day: if you don’t know the word in German, try an English one with German accent / pronunciation. (blind = blind, e Postkarte = postcard)

New vocabulary:

-       r Trockenr = dryer

-       Schnürsenkel binden = to tie the shoe laces

-       r Briefkasten = mail box