Hi Everyone.
So after being here for nearly 2 weeks, I'm finally NOT settled into Dresden- I'm moving out of my apartment and into a new one next week. Reason why? My landlord is a psychotic Saxonian-German. He is a very large, old man that speaks with such a thick accent that I can't understand a single word coming out of his mouth. I don't know if it is normal for German landlords to enter into apartments uninvited and to take dumps in their tenant's bathrooms WITHOUT ASKING, but he has done so twice. I came home yesterday afternoon to find him in my apartment sitting on the bed watching TV. I didn't even bother to ask him what he was doing and started screaming at him in the following juvenile german phrases (translated): 1.) GET OUT FAT MAN 2.) GO NOW 3.) GET OUT NOW "poop" Head. He went, thank goodness and now I get to move.
Last weekend I met up with Luke Padgett (Sewanee-Snowden friend) and we attended the last day of Oktoberfest, which we renamed: ShOKTOBERFEST, 2007. We carefully video-documented this endeavor and I have been editing away at the now 15 minute long movie so it is viewer-friendly for the older audiences that receive this email. Ha. Once I get it finished, I will post it on youtube and send all of you the link. Should be sometime this weekend. Anyhow, it was the craziest thing I have ever attended and I will never, EVER, drink a German beer served in a one liter mug again. We really went out with a bang though, seeing as how Luke and I ended up on the Monday evening news. Ok, enough of this story.
I am enrolled in 4 forestry classes here in Dresden. 2 are taught in German (Forest products, Forest stories) and 2 are taught in English (Forest mensuration, Forest policy). The two classes taught in English are part of a tropical forestry masters program here and they are really cool. The program is really diverse, so diverse that I am the only white student in both classes. The others are from Ethiopia, Kenya, Myanmar, Vietnam, Sudan, India, Ghana, Budapest etc. The stories that they tell me about their situations back in their countries are amazing. I am really excited about this upcoming semester.
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Eliza,
unfortunately this does not contradict my time in Dresden! It is really like the "backwoods" of Germany. Your photos are beautiful, and I do remember the beauty of Dresden, but there was a difficult transition for me. I lived in a WG, and still got barged in on by the male building caretaker.
Good luck getting used to it!
Paula
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