Wilkommen!

Well! Finally, I'm able to update this blog. I hope some of you are stilling checking it. We JUST got internet in our dorm last night. Of course, my dorm was the only one that didn't get internet right away. We had to go through a bunch of bureaucratic BS just to get the net to work here. This first week in Salzburg has been insanely busy! We've been running all over the city (sometimes literally!) trying to get things done, paperwork handed in, IDs made, take tests, go to meetings, etc. This week was also the first week of classes. They should have had us come a week early just to get the paperwork out of the way! And for all the talk about "German Efficiency"? I really have seen none of it. It seems all so chaotic: go stand in this line and get this paper and then hang around here and then get yelled at and then run to this other building and then try to make class again, etc. etc.

Besides the craziness, everyone here in the program is really cool and I've made some good friends already. Hopefully, I'll meet some nice Austrians/Germans and will become good friends. The regular university classes don't start until next week so many of them aren't here.

Up next! Oktoberfest pictures and memories! Now I must run to class.