5th December 2005 - Day 63

After bugging the professor for about half an hour, I think I understood the paragraph now.

The weather here today is quite good as well. Even with the wind chill factor, the temperature is around 5 degrees Celcius.

I should make a trip down to the Bürger Büro this coming Thursday. Just to confirm with them that I need not do anything for the letter they sent me earlier. I don't want to be evicted because of not replying it.

The reality of taking six modules here (five now, one more in the lecture-free but exam-full period) in German has hit me yet again with the unbelievable amount of unknown words in a page of lecture notes.

Knowing the words is one thing. What about understanding them when they are put together in a paragraph?

Apparently, I was not in the right state of mind when I made the decision.

Reading in context is dangerous when one is not in the same train of thoughts as the lecturer. Sure. It can be a joke sometimes. Like the time when I thought a red light district in Hamburg was a church where many people visit to worship. But it's not so good when your lecturer thinks you are not serious and decides to fail you.

I hope I look foreign enough for the lecturers to take me as a exchange student. Then again, I look Chinese (and on a few occasions, Korean) and all Chinese (from China) are here for full time studies. I just love the way people stereotype things. It simplifies everything. No need to spend unnecessary brain power and time on something that looks so obvious.

By the way, there are PRC students here for exchange programs as well.

So, salvaging the situation in progress.