Settling in (again)

I've now officially been living in my little dorm room in Tübingen for a week, and am finally starting to calm down from all the traveling and moving around of the last couple weeks. It feels really nice to be in a college town again and to have more independence than we did during the homestay. My dorm is really in a perfect location right in the Altstadt (old town) and nearly everything is only a couple minutes walk away. My floor only has six people, who I share a kitchen and three bathrooms with. There are two other Americans, one girl from Mexico, another from New Zealand, and one sweet girl from Taiwan. Other than the fact that my scheiße internet isn't working in my dorm room yet, I have no complaints!

My dorm is just a street over from the church in this picture, hence I am woken up every morning at 9:00am to the lovely bells... Right around the block though, there's multiple bakeries, ice cream shops, a discount grocery store, and an H&M... What more could I ever need! It's also good to be in a student town again now that the weather is nice, because there are people out and about everywhere. These steps are a popular spot, as well as the botanical gardens, along the river, and outside of every university building. Yesterday and today have been pretty rainy and gray, but the rest of the week was beautiful and sunny, around 70 degrees each day (Sorry to everyone back in Michigan...). I went to a couple university classes this week, but our German classes that I'll be receiving UM credit for don't start until this coming week. Right now, I think I'm going to take an archaeology class (in German), a class about prison culture in the US (in English obvi), and a Swedish class. The Swedish class will definitely be the hardest since I'm essentially learning two languages at the same time, but since I have a lot of time on my hands here I'm going to try to give it a shot! My best Swedish so far is Jag heter Jen, aka. My name is Jen. ;)