Off to Deuschtland!

**Uesugi Kenshin** · 09-11-2006, 17:31

Time for an update!!!

Who's excited??

Okay so I have now been in Germany for a little over a week and have gone to an AFS Orientation camp. It wasn't really worth much, except I got to speak English and work on my Spanish. I also took a communal shower, which was strange for me, but since there was only one other person there and I knew him somewhat well by then it was okay.

Sunday I drank my first beer, which was okay once I got used to the taste. I'm not going to be one of the exchange students that gets drunk, throws up on the bathroom floor, and then frantically tries to find the German words for Bleach and disinfectant so that his/her host parents don't find out when they get back though.

School is going a bit better, and I am starting to fit in a bit more, but I am still an outsider and the language barrier is still a big problem.

I don't really know what else to write, but if anyone is thinking about being an exchange students or has any questions feel free to post them, I'll get to them eventually, if not immediately.

**Csargo** · 09-11-2006, 23:41

Have fun in Germany Kenshin you lucky....Censored beep beep beep beep beep. Beeps a pretty fun word beep beep beep

**Strike For The South** · 09-11-2006, 23:47

You got to drink real German Beer!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lucky...

**GoreBag** · 09-12-2006, 05:36

A girl in my German class spent a year there on an exchange. She said she kept a lot of water around to drink it all very quickly after a night of drinking. Apparently, it helps drop her score on some kind of meter that was used to judge her intoxication level. Sounds a little fishy, but there's your anecdote from me, I suppose.

Lucky for you, though, the strongbeer-season is approaching. I have no other suggestions, though, besides that visting Bamberg for the smokebeer is a good idea. Oh, and everything in moderation...even moderation.

**Evil_Maniac From Mars** · 09-14-2006, 04:15

One word. Weissbier.

**Csargo** · 09-14-2006, 05:07

Just learned today that we have two foreign exchange students in our school and there both from Germany. Well anyways good luck on your stay in Germany.

**Uesugi Kenshin** · 09-18-2006, 19:28

Time for another update!

I went to my first big party on Saturday, it was quite fun, but the drunks were very very obnoxious. There were 15 or 16 of us and tons of booze, luckily most of us knew how to drink without getting drunk, and the other three or four were a pain, but what are you going to do. My host brother was the drunkest, and the most annoying, but fortunately I didn't have to clean it up when he puked in the kitchen (habe ein kotze in die kuche??? How do you say that in German?). We stayed up until about 4:30 in the morning.

Unfortunately my host brother didn't act nearly as hungover as I had hoped, but other than a bit of a misunderstanding due to my rather sparse knowledge of German Sunday went quite well.

I also ate smoked Aal (Eel in English) today, which was very tasty, and not much else new of any importance has happened, but I think the party contained enough firsts for the week.

Ooops I almost forgot, we also had the police called on us. At about 9, or 9:30 we went outside to have some fresh air because the room we were in was very hot, unfortunately several people were either already fairly drunk, or were egging the drunks on so one of the neighbors soon surreptitiously took a picture of the group, yelled at us and called the Polizei. Luckily they seemed to be quite annoyed, but not pissed so no charges were laid against us and we just had to keep it inside and down for the rest of the evening. I'd have been really annoyed if they had fined, or arrested, or whatever the whole group because I barely said a word when we went outside, again due to my horrible German.