Day 3

            Man, oh, Man... What A Day!

Su and I met Härtwig at 11 this morning, at the AIB 1 house.

(AIB is a study abroad program for students who don’t speak German but would like to study in Germany. Next Wednesday Su and I are going with those students on a trip down the Rhein.)

Today was orientation, going over culture shock, our schedules and another tour of Bonn and where we’re going to be living. Starting on the 21^st I will be working with a Bank, Tuesdays through Fridays, however every two weeks or so where I’m working and what I’m doing is going to change. I can’t wait, it’s amazing what Härtwig has done, this internship is very specific to business and is so diverse that I’ll have a great experience to share on my resume!

We ate in the student cafeteria. (I think Su and I will go there on our class breaks since its relatively cheap and a lot of kids our age go there. ;)

I got an international student ID, which, according to Härtwig, will give me tons of student discounts here and in the US. Yahtzee!!!

We also went to get our bus and subway passes. This was the hardest thing so far for me. I was so frustrated with everything. I didn’t understand what was going on with how the passes worked and didn’t realize that I had to pay for it. 57 Euros for a bus pass for only 1 month!!! Not to mention that I have to buy daily passes for 12 days for trips to another city for my internship that’s another 50 Euros!!!  I felt like I was backed into a corner and didn’t understand what was going on at ALL.. ugh. 

Later Su and I mentioned something to Härtwig that we didn’t think we were supposed to pay for the bus passes and that they were included in our program fees. Härtwig COMPLETELY understood and after our tour wrote a few emails to try and fix our misunderstanding. J

After the bus pass mess, Härtwig took us to see what will be our apartment and where Su will have her internship (which is luckily right next to a supermarket called Auldi? Or something J)

After Härtwig took us back to our Hotel around 17 o’clock, haha or 6. Su and I were pretty warn out and hungry from all of the German and confusion with money so we ran into Freidrich Plazt for some Düners for dinner so we could have the rest of the evening to ourselves.

I already have so much HW and we start classes tomorrow!! I have to study up on the basketball team, the bank for my internship and some paperwork for Albion. Hopefully I can manage to do some of it tomorrow.

We have class from 10 to 12:30 then 1:30 to 6:30 tomorrow!!!  We might go to a museums though for class.. or at least I hope so!!!

Tschüß!!