First Night in Münster

As Marcus said, the trip to and around Münster went well even though some of us were very tired afterwards, me include. When my host mother, Frau Gosing,  came and picked me up, we said our greetings in German but quickly moved to English. We stayed with English the rest of the night with some German sprinkled in. She showed me where the bus stops, a bank, and the grocery store are. Heck, she even took me shopping for a few things. When we returned, Shaolin, a Chinese foreign exchange student who is also living here, was home (and had to let us in because Frau Gosing had forgotten here keys).

While Frau Gosing had to go get some work done, I was to keep up some simple conversion with Shaolin, although I had to ask her to repeat herself far too many times. Then Tom, Frau Gosling's son, came home and we sat and chatted for a while (again in English). I kind of wish I would have spoken more German with both Frau Gosling and Tom, but they seemed intent on keeping to the English, probably because I would have a hard time keeping up otherwise. I was thankful that Shaolin was patient with me and that she tended to stick to simpler sentences.

At 7 o'clock, our agreed dinner time, Frau Gosing made me a nice supper of potatoes, what I think was cooked zucchini, and chicken bath in some kind of yummy sauce. After that, though, I went up to my room, laid on my bed, and was out. I woke up at 9 this morning and still had a hard time believing I was in Germany. However it is now lunch time and I need to figure out how to make myself a meal before our group meets again.

Bis bald,

Jake