impressionen...

wow...there's so much to tell you what happened in the last 10 days...
let's start with the most imporatant thing, school.
classes are going just fine so far. shiva (vorname des consumer behavior lehrers) more and more becomes last comedey man standing since he knows that he won't be teaching after this semester?
Come on, is there no one who wants do know what i'm gonig to do? So a student eventually aksed:
What you're gonna do?
response: I don't know!
As interersting as the topics we try to dicuss in my English class are... as time-requiring are the little 1-page responses to texts we've read for homework... i'm excited for my first exam in psychology. we're more than 2 weeks late for the first of 3 tests... we do have a study guide that talks about what we should know. but since our teacher teaches the same class three times, he often forgets we he has talked about in which class. I just about to summarize my notes and some parts of the book. Principles of marketing is going really well so far, however, i have a project due on tuesday night. A SWOT-analysis of a product that we can choose ourselves with regard to the Bosten Consulting Group Matrix...i somehow remember my days back at highschool with mr. stapppfff.... "ja, da gibts so kuehe und hunde...! " ;)
well besides studying, there is a french influence in my dorm who i like to spend time with.... interpretations welcomed? ;)

As I mentioned the last time, I spend a weekend in Lawrence, KS to see Jeff and Brit (his girlfriend)...




well, this weekend was just AMAZING... with all the parties... tailgating...football...beerpong...lawrence is just the place to be when you want to be an American college student... :)
well, i better get back to studtying..

Mama!!!

Obwohl ich im ersten Principles of Marketing - Exam 50 von 50 punkte hab, hat sich meine Gesamtnote in diesem Fach verschlechtert...Welcome to the U.S.! I had a 24 out of 20 (don't ask me how i did that - just take it as a given fact) in our first "quiz"... so my grade "dropped" from 120% to 106%...am I a bad student now?
Sorry it took my so long to write a new blog... i've actually been quite busy latelty. this english class just require quite a lot of time...for like every meeting (three times a week) we have to read an essay and write an one-page response. but that's like the only class that is not toooo much fun.
allright, you might be interested how a typical college-day looks like for me....
on a regular monday, wednesday or friday i get up at like 10, since my first class consumer behavior starts at 11. sometimes (if i really get up at 10) i have some cereals, if not, i have lunch with Wolfgang right after our common marketing class. Having lunch takes place in either the food court (some private little fast food restaurants - for example a subway-like place) or in the cafeteria (mensa). the cafeteria offers a (all-u-can eat) buffet for about 6 dollars (drinks included)... but it's mensa food as its best if you know what i mean.
After lunch I usually have a final look - or eventually begin - with the latest english assignment that is due like 30 minutes later.
after english, i'm basically off for the day, except on wednesday, when wolfgang and i tutor jason. he's gonna study in Bamberg next spring, so we prepare him for his journey. he gets some credit - we get paid. good deal.
Tuesday is the day with the most time spend in class for me. but i get to sleep in, since psychology doesn't start earlier than 12:30. So I usually have lunch right before that class...a fun class with a teacher that flies to florida every weekend to work with dolphins...poor little old guy has some problems though hearing the people sitting in the backrows...but he's just cute!
Dienstag abends steht dann die Principles of Marketing evening class an. Since we just meet once a week. Our session should last till like 9. but usually we're finished with the schedule earlier.
Thursdays are just 80 minutes of (psychology) class for me...
Yeah... i'm not really often IN class - but trust me, there's a lot of stuff to do... I spend quite some time preparing for my first exams in my marketing classes which already make up for like 20 % of the final grade... by the way... when we had our exam in consumer behavior on monday (for sure only multiple-chocie or true/false!), our teacher left the room for half of the time. but americans really just DON'T CHEAT at all! two students didn't take their tests on monday but today before class - they got to correct their tests themselves...i got 42 out of the 45 multiple choice questions right...
last week we went bowling, went to a casino north of st. joe where wolfgang had a little winning going on (cindy&me didn't do good at all!)...
playing goalie came with costs... a messed up left ringfinger... danke indutop du machst alles wieder gut...

es ist schon bezeichnet, wenn man z.b. beim frisoer entsetzt gefragt wird : " SO WHAT MADE YOU CHOOSE MISSOURI WESTERN FOR STUDYING ABROAD"... they somehow seem to know that there isn't a lot going on in good old st. joe... eieiei...

I finally got my social security number. so i'm ready to legally work on campus (which is basically tutoring jason). I'm gonna try to rent a car tomorrow in the afternoon/night. so i can give myself a right to soccer practice, go "walmart"-shopping, get some cold stone ice cream (JUST AMAZING!)... and on friday afternoon, i'm gonna take off to Lawrence to see Jeff!!!
I'm so excited to see him (and of course finally get to meet Brit, his girlfriend!)...

But for now I better go to bed... since i don't have early classes... i can stay up longer ;)
have fun whereever you are - those in schwabmuenchen, trinkt ne mass fuer mich mit aufm michaelimarkt...

trip to KC

so we went to Kansas City, Missouri (and probably also Kansas City, Kansas) yesterday...
parked the car right to the convention center, as we thought there should be some sights/shops whatever around. pustekuchen.
such a boring downtown. and it was quite hot. so we went into this one bar asking the waitress where to go in KC. and we eventually made it to the Liberty Memorial (WW1) and to South Plaza - a really nice place...kinda looks like disneyworld though. It's supposed to like like a southern (maybe mexican) village...with all kinds of shops, restaurants, bars, etc... as I said - a really nice place. went to cheesecake factory. OMG! I had a chocolate cookie dough cheesecake! AMAZING! our waiter was from albania and invited us to hang around with him when we're in the area again...we might do this, since st. joe really won't be a metropolitan city in the next few months :)
I uploaded some pictures from our trip (we = cindy, yuichi, wolfgang=driver and myself)...
There's a liquor store close to the campus that carries all kind of European beer brands. Besides some "weird" ones like "st. pauli girl" (mit dirndl!) there are actually beers like, spatenbraeu (optimator doppelbock), weinstephan, warsteiner, bitburger und PRINZREGENT LUITPOLD ROYAL HEFE WEIZEN! :)
anyways, i better get back watching the Chiefs (Kansas' nfl-team)... gonna play soccer today! I'm excited!
hope you're all doing just fine

ein paar bilder...

.... gibt es hier

MWSU

Welcome to America...

So the first of 15 weeks of this semester is over...
Classes have been allright so far. Consumer behavior should be a "doable" class, Psychology as well. Principles of Marketing is an evening class. I'm the only one living on campus. Many parents or older people in that class.
English 104. To be honest - a joke. So I sat in consumer behavior wednesday morning. it was 11am when i realized that this assignment we had for homework said we actually have to "discuss" the three "this i believe" articles from the npr.org website.
Autsch, so I had to skip lunch, when to the lab and worked on the assignment. i had like 50 minutes. List 5 features in every article and discuss how they arose interest. features sind in dem zusammenhang stilmittel gewesen - hab ich aber erst spaeter gecheckt. Well, i basically jsut summarzied the three essays. in deutschland theamaverfehlung. So we got our assignments back yesterday... really, i germany, i probably woudln't have handed that paper in. here - 10/10 points, nice work!
mkay... i think my personal I believe essay got along pretty well...we'll get them back on monday and then we have to chance to correct it again in order to get an even better grade... i might post the essay on my blog for those how are interested... give my feedback :)
So school should be allright...Around 17th september we're gonna have our first exams...after getting back the results I can adjust my studying-style ;)

Since Wolfgang is renting a car right now we've the chance to get around a bit. So we went to this one liquer score. und was faellt einem als erste ins auge? ein ayinger fuer $3,29. Well, of course there are other well-known german beer brands like St. Pauli Girl beer (mit m dirndl!)... but they also had spaten, becks, warsteiner, bitburger and stuff... and weihnstephan...but since we have to experience the different culture we got some Miller Genuie Draft beers...