My first German party

Well, after the excitement of the bed, it turns out I don't have too much to say about my eating and sleeping habits anymore - Although I've not sure I've mentioned my recent muesli fixation? I didn't even really like muesli before I came out here, now I look forward to breakfast time, I have it as a snack with yoghurt, I have even breached my lifelong rule that I can only eat cereal in the morning.

So, German parties... There was a party going on at the student union of the college I go to. I got invited by one of my classmates from my 'German for Foreigners' class. A party! Social contact! Something to do in the evening! It was all very exciting. Even though it was on a Wednesday, and I still had school at 8.30 the next morning, I decided to go, at least for a bit. School on Thursday was my last day before the holidays, and I hadn't been out for so long! I cycled across town, met Rafał, (the classmate who had invited me) who took me to the flat where the 'Warm up Party' was going on. It was fun, there were a lot of people there, of all different nationalities. I spoke German for parts of the evening, English for the others, and sat and wondered what they were talking about, when they all broke out into Russian or Polish.

As the only English person there, I felt so much like a celebrity! As soon as anyone found out I was English, they just wanted me to talk English, so they could hear my accent, and practice talking English with a real native. It was very exciting. One of the Polish guys was going out for a smoke, and he said 'Will you rescue my chair for me'. There is no reason why rescue and save shouldn't be interchangeable in that context, so it was just another example of why I'm glad English is my native language, and I don't have to learn all these complicated differences...

It was a good party, we ended up staying at the flat until about midnight, which I had decided was hometime, so I didn't get to experience the German nightclub (and Oktoberfest party going on there) but maybe soon. I got home in one piece, and although I woke up way too early the next morning, and couldn't get back to sleep, I managed the full day at school and at college. At college, everyone looked slighlty worse for wear. As some of them hadn't got back till 4 or 5 am, it wasn't really surprising! It was a bit hard to get motivated about Konjunctiv 1 (Conditional Sentences, Regrets and Wishes) but our German teacher made us practice, with a lot of sentences like 'If only I had gone to bed earlier...' or 'I wish I was asleep now'. And by the time it got to the class at 4pm, everyone was in hysterics mood and laughed a lot, so at least it was fun!

Half term this week, yay!
xoxo