Einen sehr produktiv Wochenende
Sonntag, 22.10.06
This weekend was quite productive, although I didn’t read as much of my German books as I would have liked. The title for this entry is only to counteract the previous French one, so not a reference to the amount of German that I have newly acquired.
On Friday afternoon, I had planned to attend one of the basketball sessions as part of the University program. Unfortunately I arrived a little late as I rushed from college and the group had already reached the maximum of 18 so I was turned away. There are 18 different sessions in the week available for basketball; however there are a lot of students in Cologne. At Fachhochschule Köln [Cologne University of the Applied Sciences], the largest of its kind in the whole of Germany, where I am in the Cultural Sciences Faculty, there are around 17,000 students. And not to mention also the City University and Sports University which are also based here. Instead, I will stick to my daily-cycle, badminton and also maybe running. Today, Jenny, another fellow Chinese who lives here, and myself went for a run around the Stadtwald [City Forest]. Although it is not my preferred form of exercise, I may change my mind since I now have a running buddy.
Friday night was Eeva’s party at her flat. Just as we were about to leave mine, it was raining heavily so I couldn’t take my bike but luckily Raymund offered to take us into the city centre to meet a few others before getting a chicken ‘Kebap’ with a glass of hot tea for only 2,90€! I didn’t stay at the party for that long, I was feeling very tired and sitting on the mattress whilst trying to immerse into the various conversations added to the sleepiness factor. Again, was very grateful to get a lift back home, via college to drop Lisa off, as I wasn’t looking forward to waiting at the bus stop like I had the previous evening after the cinema.
On Saturday, I went to Raymund’s garden/allotment situated in the North East of Cologne to help him with his gardening. I’d never thought I would be thanking him by helping to mow the lawn but we also had fun playing the piano that was in the shed/summer house. That’s 2 things I’d never expected to do in Germany; cutting grass and playing a bit of ‘The Entertainer’, the only song I can play on piano, that’s if you don’t count those little tunes you learn where you try to play as fast as you can. On the way back, we stopped by in Mülheim, the Turkish quarter to get some kebabs and baklavas which was very tasty.
The rest of the weekend has been spent infront of the computer, learning Macromedia Flash with these DVDs our course leader ‘lent’ us. It’s the first time that I use this program although I always fantasised about creating animation and interactive websites. Being taught at this initial stage is very crucial in understanding and realising the possibilities of the application and I shall share my works once it’s past the practising stage.
There was also the meeting of our floor earlier tonight, mainly to discuss the rota for cleaning the kitchen. I now have my part of the fridge identified; the top shelf, the cleanest part of being in a shared fridge. So now, I will probably cook something in the kitchen as noodles and sandwiches won’t whet my appetite for much longer.
This weekend was quite productive, although I didn’t read as much of my German books as I would have liked. The title for this entry is only to counteract the previous French one, so not a reference to the amount of German that I have newly acquired.
On Friday afternoon, I had planned to attend one of the basketball sessions as part of the University program. Unfortunately I arrived a little late as I rushed from college and the group had already reached the maximum of 18 so I was turned away. There are 18 different sessions in the week available for basketball; however there are a lot of students in Cologne. At Fachhochschule Köln [Cologne University of the Applied Sciences], the largest of its kind in the whole of Germany, where I am in the Cultural Sciences Faculty, there are around 17,000 students. And not to mention also the City University and Sports University which are also based here. Instead, I will stick to my daily-cycle, badminton and also maybe running. Today, Jenny, another fellow Chinese who lives here, and myself went for a run around the Stadtwald [City Forest]. Although it is not my preferred form of exercise, I may change my mind since I now have a running buddy.
Friday night was Eeva’s party at her flat. Just as we were about to leave mine, it was raining heavily so I couldn’t take my bike but luckily Raymund offered to take us into the city centre to meet a few others before getting a chicken ‘Kebap’ with a glass of hot tea for only 2,90€! I didn’t stay at the party for that long, I was feeling very tired and sitting on the mattress whilst trying to immerse into the various conversations added to the sleepiness factor. Again, was very grateful to get a lift back home, via college to drop Lisa off, as I wasn’t looking forward to waiting at the bus stop like I had the previous evening after the cinema.
On Saturday, I went to Raymund’s garden/allotment situated in the North East of Cologne to help him with his gardening. I’d never thought I would be thanking him by helping to mow the lawn but we also had fun playing the piano that was in the shed/summer house. That’s 2 things I’d never expected to do in Germany; cutting grass and playing a bit of ‘The Entertainer’, the only song I can play on piano, that’s if you don’t count those little tunes you learn where you try to play as fast as you can. On the way back, we stopped by in Mülheim, the Turkish quarter to get some kebabs and baklavas which was very tasty.
The rest of the weekend has been spent infront of the computer, learning Macromedia Flash with these DVDs our course leader ‘lent’ us. It’s the first time that I use this program although I always fantasised about creating animation and interactive websites. Being taught at this initial stage is very crucial in understanding and realising the possibilities of the application and I shall share my works once it’s past the practising stage.
There was also the meeting of our floor earlier tonight, mainly to discuss the rota for cleaning the kitchen. I now have my part of the fridge identified; the top shelf, the cleanest part of being in a shared fridge. So now, I will probably cook something in the kitchen as noodles and sandwiches won’t whet my appetite for much longer.
posted by elaine at 16:21
1 Comments:
ewww... noodle sandwich.
looks like they've sen t you to germany to be a slave :p
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