Heute

For starters, this is interesting. Again, ganked from Instapundit.

I got up today to go meet my tandem buddy, Manuel. I think he might be getting more from me at the moment because his English is much better than my German. Both of us need work at pronunciation, but he can put a somewhat complicated sentence together while I don't have the grammatical tools to do that yet. But I think I am picking up more and more of what I hear - which still isn't much but it's something. We talked about politics and the Iraq war. Since he's a soldier, he's got a different perspective on the whole thing but that's about as much as I could understand. His pronunciation is not incredible, but most of the time it's comprehensible.

Then I went to class. Or, I thought I was going to class. It turns out that, though the schedule I had and was aware of said the class started at 15:00 it, in fact, started at 13:00. By the time I got there, the room was empty. Sweet. I felt great after that. I sent the professor - Georg Busch - an email. Hopefully, he'll get back to me.

So, while staying a little pissed at myself, I went to Mariahilferstrasse and looked for a bag. I like my backpack but when I'm on the Ubahn I feel like anyone could easily unzip my pack and take my ipod and camera. I don't really want to loose either of those, since they've both been very useful. After looking at this "Bag Shop" and deciding that it was not worth spending €40 on a bag that would cost $20 at most in the US, I found this Army store. They had these bags which were exactly what I was looking for and it was only €14. Sweet. I have a new bag. It hangs down by my side so I can keep my hand on it and feel a little more secure when I'm walking around.

And now I'm bored. Maybe I'll find something to do tonight. That'd be nice.