I’ve started going running again, on my therapist’s orders. I don’t do it often — only twice a week, and only for 30 min or so — but it’s been good. I’ve started getting to know the parks and trails around the castle a little better as a result. Towards the end of the year at Etown, I had started running but fell out of the habit over the summer. I don’t enjoy it as much as I enjoyed fencing, but I had kind of forgotten how important and helpful exercise is, both in the physical and mental sense.
Tag: school
A picture of me in the castle garden, courtesy of my friend Dottie!
The semester has officially begun in Marburg! A lot of my time during these first couple of weeks was spent going to class and doing class work, but I’ve also been getting to know the other people in the castle.
It’s all been a little overwhelming, to say the least. Being surrounded by native speakers of German 24/7, in class and in the dorm, has really shown me just how much more German I have to learn. To be clear, I was using German a lot in Vienna, too. But most of the other people I spoke with were also just learning the language, and were at the same level as me.
I’ve survived my first day living abroad!
I made it to Vienna safe and sound, along with the rest of my belongings. On the flight I’d been lucky enough to have a window seat, and as we flew away from the U.S., I watched the sun set behind us. As we flew across the Atlantic, I had a view of the Little Dipper hanging above the clouds. And as we began to fly over Europe, the sun rose and turned the sky shades of gold and red.