Ach!



I am getting better I guess. My week is done and Huiting comes on Friday!


So anyway a quick rundown on my Humboldt classes.


My class on Jewish Characterization is terrifying. The professor seems nice and flat out told me and James (another dude from IES and also from Dickenson, Tx!) that she didn't really expect us to give any oral presentations. I'm still not sure what I need to do to get credit in that class though.


My Kant class steht in this incredibly ghetto ass east german relic of a Gebäude. The halls have no windows and every room is packed tightly against the room next to it. The class room itself obviously very tiny and the furniture has not been replaced since the Wende, and probably well before. Nevertheless it was a surprisingly positive experience. The teacher (you don't refer to them as Professors unless they've published a certain amount and have been recognized as such by the University) is from Italy and just got back from Italy yesterday. Her German is nice and slow and easy to understand, which should then make Kant a little more digestible. I was surprised that I was one of three people in the class who'd read him before. Yay Grinnell?


One more thing.


I don't ever want to hear another word about pretentious people at Grinnell, they don't exist. You see they simply can't compete with their European counterparts. German university students, well at least like the few in my philosophy class, outpace them in all areas.


I've also noticed that Germans have very good handwriting, und ich hab' dass nicht.


I apologize for the random breaks into Denglish and German.

Vielen Dank für ihr Verständnis


Also dann, Tschüs!