Wow, the last few days have been a rollercoaster. After getting 3-4 hours of sleep each night starting Tuesday, it's amazing that I'm still conscious.
Arrived in Stuttgart on Saturday evening, and Jen was at the airport to pick me up. We took the S-bahn to Vaihingen and the campus. I didn't expect the stop to be literally in the middle of campus! The dorm area is not too bad, although my building is one of many tall white buildings and may prove difficult to find. I have a single in the fifth floor, and it's really quite spacious compared to the triples and double I've had at UCLA. I met some of the students living in my building too, most of whom are international students. Apparently only a couple German students live here! So after cleaning up for a bit Jen invited me to watch the England v. USA game at her friend's place. It was really nice- we watched on a projector and brought stuff to barbecue. Later I went to the kitchen birthday party in my building. Pretty much everybody there was from Erasmus, the Euroepan student exchange program. I met people from Spain, France, Brazil, Finland, Switzerland, and Iraq.
It sucks that there aren't very many German students in the dorms but I think that it's awesome that there are so many other international students! And besides, you're bound to meet Germans in your time there:-)
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