Today was full of rookie mistakes and small victories.
1. Early in the morning, the buses to town run every ten minutes, at least. I missed all of those, and had to take an 8:44 bus to get to my 9 am class. This normally would not be a huge issue, except the class I was going to was French 201 of which I am THE ONLY STUDENT. So it was a slightly bigger deal than one would suspect. Incidentally, I walked in at 9:02 and escaped admonishment, though narrowly.
2. I yawned about six times more than usual over the course of my hour-long French class, so I bopped on over to a cafe to down some espresso. I figured since they only serve single shots here, I could just order two and that would do it. Terrible idea. I think the espresso is stronger over here. Either that, or I am weaker. Anyway, I was very twitchy come lunch, and have yet to fully recover from the over-buzz.
3. After lunch, I decided to go over to the shopping center a few towns over in order to buy my train ticket for this weekend as well as a few other miscellaneous items. I had plenty of time before my class at 3:30. My errands went swimmingly and I was back on the train by 1:30. Little did I realize what lay ahead. As I sat on the train and gazed out the window, I realized too late that I missed my stop. I thought that I could just get off at the next stop and hop on a train going the opposite direction. Obviously I did not learn from my bus fiasco. As it turns out, the train split and went on a different track, so the train that I boarded at the next stop was not going in the right direction whatsoever. I ended up receiving help from a nice conductor and some useless Luxembourgish from an extremely old man and made it back to the school ten minutes before my class started. Small victory for sure.
4. A delicious croissant may or may not have been consumed at 5 pm.
6. There's a massive fair that happens annually in Luxembourg called "Schueberfouer Festival". If you've ever been to a state fair, it's basically like that except more European and there are a lot more teens drinking beer and smoking cigs. More leather as well. It was hilarious. I entertained myself by reading people's T-shirts, which are always hilarious and always in English. Here are some gems:
"unicorn"
"abused & addicted"
"f---" (hat)
"trash chic" (hat)
"young & dangerous"
"hipster suffocation"
1. Early in the morning, the buses to town run every ten minutes, at least. I missed all of those, and had to take an 8:44 bus to get to my 9 am class. This normally would not be a huge issue, except the class I was going to was French 201 of which I am THE ONLY STUDENT. So it was a slightly bigger deal than one would suspect. Incidentally, I walked in at 9:02 and escaped admonishment, though narrowly.
2. I yawned about six times more than usual over the course of my hour-long French class, so I bopped on over to a cafe to down some espresso. I figured since they only serve single shots here, I could just order two and that would do it. Terrible idea. I think the espresso is stronger over here. Either that, or I am weaker. Anyway, I was very twitchy come lunch, and have yet to fully recover from the over-buzz.
3. After lunch, I decided to go over to the shopping center a few towns over in order to buy my train ticket for this weekend as well as a few other miscellaneous items. I had plenty of time before my class at 3:30. My errands went swimmingly and I was back on the train by 1:30. Little did I realize what lay ahead. As I sat on the train and gazed out the window, I realized too late that I missed my stop. I thought that I could just get off at the next stop and hop on a train going the opposite direction. Obviously I did not learn from my bus fiasco. As it turns out, the train split and went on a different track, so the train that I boarded at the next stop was not going in the right direction whatsoever. I ended up receiving help from a nice conductor and some useless Luxembourgish from an extremely old man and made it back to the school ten minutes before my class started. Small victory for sure.
4. A delicious croissant may or may not have been consumed at 5 pm.
6. There's a massive fair that happens annually in Luxembourg called "Schueberfouer Festival". If you've ever been to a state fair, it's basically like that except more European and there are a lot more teens drinking beer and smoking cigs. More leather as well. It was hilarious. I entertained myself by reading people's T-shirts, which are always hilarious and always in English. Here are some gems:
"unicorn"
"abused & addicted"
"f---" (hat)
"trash chic" (hat)
"young & dangerous"
"hipster suffocation"
Great times all around, honestly. Tomorrow morning I go to get a Tuberculosis test so that I can stay in the country for longer than 90 days without getting deported. We shall see how that goes...
Double espresso that was my undoing.
Half-hour train layover in the middle of nowhere. Town sounded German but I will be forever unsure what country I was in.
Enjoying gyros by the light of Schueberfouer. Always the soft smile. Always.
Hey man have you seen Ferris? I heard he passed out at 31 Flavors last night.