Still no internet...

Hello family!

I am currently sitting in my Economics and Business building on the main campus, Zernike. I just had my first class of the semester- statistics. Apparently I was supposed to have taken a statistics class before this one, because in the first lecture the professor went through the first 200 pages of the book calling it a "review".

yikes.

So, I have quite a bit of studying to do for that class by the next lecture (although I have no book, and can find no place to purchace a book either- but fear not! I will figure something out.)

Other than that...

I live in a house with five girls, the house is quite crowded with posters of the girls' sorrority parties, pictures, etc. The girls are nice and very helpful with any silly questions that I have, so that is good.

Biking around the city is very very nerve-wracking! Oh my goodness. I am convinced I am going to run into another biker, or that a bus is going to hit me. Oh deary me, it is super frightening. I think I have decided to take a bus to my classes, which involves walking 10 minutes to the train station, waiting for a few minutes, and then taking the bus 10 minutes to the campus. This is quite different than leaving my dorm room 5 minutes before class...

hmm...the food is okay, a little different. The Dutch eat A LOT of bread. haha, it is interesting. The grocery stores are filled with different spreads to put on the bread and other random bread-accompanying things. Yes, their breakfast consists of bread with some sort of spread on it, and then lunch is the same thing...then dinner is some random meat with potatoes and a salad. Nothing too different to home except the unreasonable amount of carbs (then again, if you bike everywhere, I guess you would need them)


So far, my schedule is quite lovely. For the first portion of the semester (the semester is divided into two sections, part a and part b with part a ending in April, and part b starting in April and ending in June) I have lectures only on Monday and Tuesday, with 'tutorial groups' on Mondays and Wednesdays. This means that I have a 4 day weekend! Although there is still a lot of work to do for each lecture, plus I have to teach myself Chinese on my own...but with a 4 day weekend, I can travel around without missing my lessons.

Okay, I must now go and figure out what to do about not having a statistics book...and hope and pray for internet at home...

I love you all!