Posted by Claire at October 16th, 2005

Hey dudes, here’s my first REAL post from Regensburg. I was such a dang air-head and fully forgot how to sign in. Ah well, I’ve also been busy… Well kind of!

Regensburg is pretty darn grand. I’ve been here 2 weeks now & I’m tired really. I’ve made lots of foreign student friends, the majority speaking Czech or bloody Polish all the time, but I was happy when I met the British the other night. Even if they are crazy drinkers! I thought I was bad. Nah, everyone’s friendly and at the moment they seem to be coping with my poor german! But I feel it improving everyday… apart from today… I’ve seen no other person in this Halls of 700. German students aint as friendly as I’d hoped & must sleep a lot cos this floor aint what you would call buzzin’ It’s just so different to how I remember my freshers week in York. I’m missing York & all my housemates like kerrrazy, especially Ben & Chris, I’m missing them pestering me all the time… I never thought I’d say that! Lectures start tomorrow so I’ll be filling my day with work avoidance… Hold on for posts!

We’ve been doing the rounds of Bavaria recently, visiting Bayreuth & the Bamberg, next week off to Munich & Neuschwanstein (the castle in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang). I’ve been trawling the internet for some awesome bands to see & so far I’ve come across The White Stripes, Franz Ferdinand, Editors, Arctic Monkeys, Maximo Park to name but a few. I’ll take along my finnish friend Ilona, who is dying to be educated. Let the education commense…

To finish, I will address a STUPID german rule which makes me late for whatever all the time. At a pedestrian crossing, it is fully illegal to cross at the red man whether there are cars coming or not! So, one has to stand there looking like a dick, waiting for the green man, in fear of the police catching you & fining you!

Idiots.