I'm bad at blogging

Offensichtlich/obviously I'm bad at blogging. Once a week I said. Lies.

Anyway, my intensive course is over and real classes are beginning tomorrow (Tuesday) for me. !!!!

To sum up this week, it was pretty trying. I got very frustrated with the language and how I'm not as adept at speaking as I thought I was. But I'm trying to change my perspective. After all, I'm here for 4 months and I'm definitely going to get better.

On the plus side, I went to some bars and had some great drinks with my roommate and a friend of hers. We went to Cabaret Voltaire, the birthplace of the Dada movement in Switzerland! The drinks were massively overpriced! At the last bar I stole a beer glass as revenge for all the money that Switzerland is taking from me. Don't tell anyone.

The next day was Valentine's Day, which was also a bit hard, considering I am away from the people I love. But I have no reason to complain. I'm in a beautiful city and I'm about to study a subject that I love in a language that I love (despite my frustrations with it). Additionally, I went to a café with my roommate at 10 pm for hot chocolate to boost our spirits. It was pretty much the best goddamn hot chocolate I've ever had in my life, and that's not an exaggeration in the slightest. It was hot chocolate with amaretto and whipped cream, ohhhh my God. Also massively overpriced. I was dressed in sweatpants and a regular T-shirt, meanwhile there were all these nicely dressed couples kind of giving us looks, because the place was fancier than we expected.

Anyway, that's all from this week! I'll have plenty to talk about next week, since classes will have begun and I'm going to a festival in Basel in a week.

First Week?

So I really can't believe it's only been a week. A lot has happened, especially official stuff I had to set up with classes and student ID cards and getting a monthly tram pass, and finding my own way from the Hauptbahnhof (main train station) to the hostel I would be staying at for two days before moving into my student apartment. During my stay, I met a group of people, individually from London, Ireland, and Australia, with whom I went food shopping and made dinner, and went on a pub crawl the next night. So my stay in Switzerland started out with drunk adventures, dances with this Brazilian dude and listening to some pretty great music at different clubs. Probably was not the best idea considering I had to find my way with my future roommate to our housing complex the next day, but I'm glad I did it anyway.
Since then it's been my intensive course, so for about 6 or 7 hours a day I try only to speak German. Frankly it's kind of embarrassing when I go out and try to speak German with people, because they know immediately that I'm American or something and start talking to me in English. I'm getting better though, and that's what counts, right?
I underestimated how expensive everything would be. I was told over and over again that it would be expensive and now I see: a bottle of olive oil is about 9 Swiss francs. So food and IKEA shopping was a bummer today.
I hope all of my blog posts will not be this bad. I'll probably recall some other things that happened later. Once my classes start and more traveling happens, I'll be more excited to post and probably more eloquent.