This morning I took the bus into town to check my email and write this post. Having a six to nine hour time difference with the United States makes some communication a bit difficult, but so far it has been manageable. Yesterday, I went grocery shopping for the first time. Apparently, very few supposedly-international credit cards are accepted here, as the only one accepted at the store to which I went was a German card. Cash seems to be the most prevalent currency at most shops.
After taking a nap yesterday, I think that I am completely, or nearly completely, over my jetlag. For a couple days I have woken up about an hour before my alarm, but I do not think that is on account of jetlag (since only one hour would not make much sense).
A bit more about my living situation: Because Marburg is an old university town, the university is in the city centre and the dormitories are in groups all around the outskirts of town. For me to get from my dorm to the university is a 15 minute bus ride. The group of dormitories in which I live is called “Studentendorf.” Located in a residential area, it is one of about four such groups. In Studentendorf are about five dorm buildings, each about five stories tall, with eight to ten rooms per story. Every building has a different style, or multiple styles, of rooms. Some are apartment-style, others are a single room with a sink, yet others are two-person dorm rooms. In Lomonosov-Haus, my building in Studentendorf, the rooms are all either single- or double-dorm room style. Floors 1-5 have eight bedrooms, split between two wings, a bathroom with a shower in each wing, and a kitchen for the floor. The laundry room for the building takes the place of the kitchen on floor 0. Floor 0’s bathrooms are also just bathrooms, without showers. I live on floor 0, so my shower and kitchen are located on floor 1. In the kitchens, everyone gets a locker in which they can store dry goods, and the refrigerators are divided up between everyone on the floor (there are three refrigerators in floor 1’s kitchen). While I do have a food locker in the floor 1 kitchen, apparently it was decided that whoever had my room should not have to go up a floor to get to their refrigerator. Thus, as you can see in the pictures from the last post, I have a mini-fridge in my room. Assumingly, my room was previously a double, as there are two names from the previous renters on the mailbox for my room.
When I left this morning to come into town, it was grey, overcast, and beautifully cool outside. Still cool now, the grey has cleared off a bit, revealing green mountains all around. Language classes start tomorrow, so I think I will spend my afternoon relaxing and studying German. We will not find out until tomorrow what class level for language into which we have been placed, but it cannot hurt to be on top of it.
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