Stayin Classy

Quick post before bed... class started today and things went well. Decided the coffee shop down the street might be seeing me a few times a day but that's ok. I'm in intermediate Italian which I was a little nervous about, considering that I haven't studied it, but everyone (aside from the two nearly fluent speakers in the class) seemed to be at about the same level of confusion and dismay as I was when the professor announced that she was no longer going to speak in English at all. I guess that's the best way to learn though...

Four hour break between my 2 hour Italian class and 3 hour Mythology class (I know, makes for a long day) in which we went and got lunch, our residency permits, aaaaaand... booked flights to Stuttgart for Oktoberfest! I know the biggest one is in Munich, but Bad Cannstatt (the suburb of Stuttgart in which I was born, actually) has another huge fest, and the airport Ryanair flies into is much much closer to Stuttgart, which both time and money-wise just makes more sense.

When we got done with class at six Meghan, Ben, Pete, Jeff, and I went to check out the Scholar's Bar/Pub/Tavern (can't remember which) which is a pretty authentic Irish pub with all English speaking waitstaff. Like I said before, I don't want to find myself using English-prominent areas as a crutch, but it was a nice breath of familiarity I have to admit.

Like I said, quick post, forgot to give the link for the rest of the Notte Bianca pictures (same as the 2nd album I posted before actually, but here you go.