London one-way!

Today was a big mish-mash made worse by the fact the S bahn isn’t working, which means major delays on public transport or big detours, and people didn’t get out of bed till late.

We were supposed to all meet downstairs at 8am, and the last annoying people didn’t get down until 8.45, when our lessons began at 9am. So we were all late, but Elizabeth and I rode to school. We are in the outer east, and school seems to be in the lower south, so it took just over an hour. But it was really fun and the majority of Berlin is quite flat. We saw heaps of funky street art on the way,rode next to the river for a while.

For some reason they thought my German test was good enough to put me in the higher group – there are three beginner classes and one higher class, although ours seems to have different standards within it. I felt totally overwhelmed getting into the whole study thing again, but my teacher Saeeda said it might take a few days to get back into it, so not to worry (yet)!

After class a bunch of us met up in the Kreuzberg area to find somewhere for lunch and somehow made our way back down close-by for dinner. We had our orientation meeting which only began at 6pm and went till just after 7pm but didn’t seem to answer many of our questions. Dinner we didn’t have till quite late, plus a few wines – easy to order – ein weiss vino bitte.

We did get homework however so that’ll be done in the am.

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