Hey, big news... i'm gonna be back in germany over christmas break.... found a pretty cheap flight to munich (ca. 520euro), so i'm gonna be @ home from 16th dec to 12th january. i'm excited! can't wait for some decent German food!brezen oder a schnitzel... mjam, mjam. after 2 months, I had my first real steak last friday at cheddar's (350 gramm, baked potatoe, french fries), yummy yummy... i need to work out before i get back to germany!i don't think i gained weight, but i'm just not exercising at all!
Ok, one reason i'm writing this blog is to offer you a special x-mas service.
I bought two pairs of adidas-orignals today for 95 dollars (66 euro!)...the exchange rate is still soooo good 70 euro-cents buy one dollar! so especially clothing at electronics are really cheap for us europeans. another example is the new i-pod touch. $400 here, 400 euros in europe. However, when i buy it here, it'll only cost me around 280 euros!! i guess what i'm trying to say is... if you're looking for something special as a christmas gift for a special one or if you're just looking for some cheap cloths from abercrombie or something like that, LET ME KNOW IN TIME (mid-november would be a deadline! the earlier the better though!!!), so i can try to get it for you!
other than that, life is just fine. cindy and i have been "dating" for more than a month now - and we still like to see each other every now and then ;)
I'm already kinda sick of the cafeteria food, at least we've got quizznos on campus (similar to subway!)... but sushi (yuichi), cindy and me are trying to cook for ourselves (especially at the weekends, when the cafeteria food is even worse!) as often as we can...
my midterm-grades are as i expected them to be. "A's in consumer behavior, principles of marketing and psychology, "C" in English (this teacher just gives "C"s or "F"s for midterm, since we so far only got 1/6 of our points over the semester)...
und noch was ganz anderes... wenn man abends mal zufaellig bei nem fox sender vorbeizappt ist es schon erstaunlich, wie die "liberal media" verschwoerungen angegriffen werden... ei ei ei...die amis sind manchmal schon so ein volk...
ich geh jetzt erstmal schlafen...
macht's gut!
Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2007
Dienstag, 9. Oktober 2007
notecard
so sieht das dann aus, wenn man eine einseitig beschriebene 4x6 (inches) notecard in sein marketing exam mitnehmen darf...
kann dann ueber haupt noch was schiefgehen?! ich hoffe nicht...
ach ja... ich kanns lesen ;)
kann dann ueber haupt noch was schiefgehen?! ich hoffe nicht...
ach ja... ich kanns lesen ;)
Sonntag, 7. Oktober 2007
Culture Trip...
you might not believe it. there is some kind of cultural "stuff" in the states.
I just got home from a field trip to Kansas City. Susan (the foreign exchange coordinator) and her husband took the white Missouri Western van and took us (Cindy, two boys from my floor and me) to the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art.
There are several collections from all kidns of ages and cultures...for example this monet painting (Boulevard des Capucines or Les Grands Boulevards)
as well as some American Indian exhibits
There is a nice sculpture garden surrounding the two buildings of the museum, but when Cindy and I wanted to walk around a bit, it started raining heavily. Oh by the way, we still have 25C temperatures here :)!
After this "culture shock" (it's amazing how Americans consider stuff ancient, even though it's less than like 200 years old "young"), we went to the plaza again. This plaza is desgined to look like the city of Sevilla, Spain. I haven't been in the Spanish city yet. However, the plaza is nice, yet somehow - for a european - it doesn't look 100 % authentic...
Cheesecake Factory is a wonderful place. Cindy and I went there for lunch....and she met some friends that she got to know during her year at Boston. I don't wanna be rude, those two girls were really nice, BUT honestly! WHO cares about human beings, when it comes to burgers?
not to mention the stuff the cheesecake factory is actually famous for - their cheesecake.
"oma, dein taesekuchen is gud, aber der taesetuchen der mama is besser!" NICHTS KOMMT AN MAMA's KAESEKUCHEN RAN!!!
And now i'm back in my dorm. I need to work on a English reading assigntment. We're about to create our inquiry (a contract between MSWU students and teachers)...it's just tough to find the right motivation for something that is not among your most favorites class... oh well... mid-term is coming up. MID-TERM!!! ALREADY!! a fourth (!) of my academic year is already over?you gotta be kidding!so far the grades are, well, good :) I just had one test in consumer behavior so far (93%) - the second one is coming up in like 10 days. Principles of Marketing... herrlich! After a dramatic grade drop from 107 to 103 % (with the 50 out of 50 in the last test!), I really worked on that one assignemnt (--> do you feel the irony?!), a SWOT analysis and the Boston Group Consulting Matrix, and scored 22 out of 20... so i'm back to like 106% again. I just hope i can keep my grade around 100% - would be really nice for Bamberg.
I should have all points in English as well. But so far only smaller assignments have been graded - not the major essays (this i believe, the contract, etc.). The essays won't be graded until the end of the semester. but you know what - i acutally don't care about the grade as long as I pass this class!
Psychology is really interesting. We had a test last tuesday. I didn't do much more than typing my notes in a word document and read the study guide and a few pages in the book. On test day, I didn't feel too comfortable, there were a few questions that I didn't really get. I couldn't remember having read anything in my notes, study guide or book about it. But I thought, hey, who cares about that grade in this class?!
On thursday, we got this multiple choice test back. Wow. For American standards this test really didn't go too well for the students... just 5 As and a couple of Bs in a 70+ class?! So our teacher curved the test. This means that whoever scored best gets 100 % of the test - even thought he might have like 20 out of 50 right... the best in our class scored 45 out of 50. I wonder who ;) not me! i scored 44 out of (now) 45 - and kinda scared my neighbors in that class. oh well. Since we're gonna get extra credit for participating in a little (psychologic) survey, my grade in this class should be above 100% as well...
THIS IS AMERICA!!!
I just got home from a field trip to Kansas City. Susan (the foreign exchange coordinator) and her husband took the white Missouri Western van and took us (Cindy, two boys from my floor and me) to the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art.
There are several collections from all kidns of ages and cultures...for example this monet painting (Boulevard des Capucines or Les Grands Boulevards)
as well as some American Indian exhibits
There is a nice sculpture garden surrounding the two buildings of the museum, but when Cindy and I wanted to walk around a bit, it started raining heavily. Oh by the way, we still have 25C temperatures here :)!
After this "culture shock" (it's amazing how Americans consider stuff ancient, even though it's less than like 200 years old "young"), we went to the plaza again. This plaza is desgined to look like the city of Sevilla, Spain. I haven't been in the Spanish city yet. However, the plaza is nice, yet somehow - for a european - it doesn't look 100 % authentic...
Cheesecake Factory is a wonderful place. Cindy and I went there for lunch....and she met some friends that she got to know during her year at Boston. I don't wanna be rude, those two girls were really nice, BUT honestly! WHO cares about human beings, when it comes to burgers?
not to mention the stuff the cheesecake factory is actually famous for - their cheesecake.
"oma, dein taesekuchen is gud, aber der taesetuchen der mama is besser!" NICHTS KOMMT AN MAMA's KAESEKUCHEN RAN!!!
And now i'm back in my dorm. I need to work on a English reading assigntment. We're about to create our inquiry (a contract between MSWU students and teachers)...it's just tough to find the right motivation for something that is not among your most favorites class... oh well... mid-term is coming up. MID-TERM!!! ALREADY!! a fourth (!) of my academic year is already over?you gotta be kidding!so far the grades are, well, good :) I just had one test in consumer behavior so far (93%) - the second one is coming up in like 10 days. Principles of Marketing... herrlich! After a dramatic grade drop from 107 to 103 % (with the 50 out of 50 in the last test!), I really worked on that one assignemnt (--> do you feel the irony?!), a SWOT analysis and the Boston Group Consulting Matrix, and scored 22 out of 20... so i'm back to like 106% again. I just hope i can keep my grade around 100% - would be really nice for Bamberg.
I should have all points in English as well. But so far only smaller assignments have been graded - not the major essays (this i believe, the contract, etc.). The essays won't be graded until the end of the semester. but you know what - i acutally don't care about the grade as long as I pass this class!
Psychology is really interesting. We had a test last tuesday. I didn't do much more than typing my notes in a word document and read the study guide and a few pages in the book. On test day, I didn't feel too comfortable, there were a few questions that I didn't really get. I couldn't remember having read anything in my notes, study guide or book about it. But I thought, hey, who cares about that grade in this class?!
On thursday, we got this multiple choice test back. Wow. For American standards this test really didn't go too well for the students... just 5 As and a couple of Bs in a 70+ class?! So our teacher curved the test. This means that whoever scored best gets 100 % of the test - even thought he might have like 20 out of 50 right... the best in our class scored 45 out of 50. I wonder who ;) not me! i scored 44 out of (now) 45 - and kinda scared my neighbors in that class. oh well. Since we're gonna get extra credit for participating in a little (psychologic) survey, my grade in this class should be above 100% as well...
THIS IS AMERICA!!!
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