Shoot me.

Argh. Tomorrow I have to give a presentation on Australia with the other Australian girl there. Shoot me. Remember, I can't construct a sentence. I had my teacher help me. Here's what I'm going to say:

Viele Ureinwohner haben seit 40 000 jarhen in Australien gewohnt. Danach haben die Englaender Gefangene nach Australien gebracht.
In Australien essen wir Essen aus allen Laendern. Besonders Fleischauflauf, vegemite und Kaenguruhfleisch.
In Australien gibt es viele schoene Straende. In Sydney gibt es einen beruuhmten Strand er heisst Bondi. Fast gans Australien ist eine Wuuste.

Basically it translates to:
Many Aborigines lived in Australia for 40 000 years. Then the English brought prisoners.
In Australia we eat food from every country. In particular meat pies, vegemite and kangaroo meat. In Australia there are many beautiful beaches. In Sydney there is a famous beach called Bondi. Most of Australia is a desert.

Shoot me. That has got to be the most boring thing in the world. Vomit. And I can't think of anything else to say, or, I can think of lots of things to say but nothing I could say in German. Argh. Seriously, shoot me. I don't want to get up in front of anyone and say this crap. It's embarrassing.

Meanwhile, I met up with Katrin today for lunch. It was so good to see her again - nice to see someone from Newcastle, even if she is originally from Germany. We had a nice little whinge about how crap our history class was last year.

Having lunch with her again tomorrow.

Other news: being here is like being in high school again. I'd been hanging out with this group of American's this last week and there's all this in-fighting going on. I'm too old for this crap. I tend to not say anything, just agree with whoever's talking to me, then suddenly remember I need to go home. Now there's a great schism in the group. I'm so glad I'm living off campus so I have some space and my world isn't so insular. I think if I lived on campus and saw these people all the time it would probably my entire world.

As it is I'm seeing everyone all the effing time. It's hard being around these people so much. We have our classes, then we've had so many excursions. Bloody excursions. Although, they're calling them "Tutoriums" and as such, they're part of our language classes and they're mandatory, and we had to pay 65 Euro for it (grr argh grr), and it's pretty much like we're being babysat. On Saturday (yes, a Saturday. As in, MY Saturday. As in, MY WEEKEND) we had an excursion to Dortmund. We did a scavenger hunt. Shoot me. Then on Tuesday we went to Bochum and went to a musuem to have a tour of a recreated mine. Shoot me. Then yesterday we went to this place called Steinwache which was the gestapo headquarters for the area during the Third Reich. Could have and should have been really interesting. I'm sure it would have had I understood any German at all. And if the rooms weren't so tiny and airless and filled with 20 people (I'm sure the prisoners would have liked bigger, more air filled rooms also). Argh. Saturday we have another excursion, this one's to Cologne. I was really looking forward to seeing Cologne in my own time. You just know that they're going to suck the fun out of it. Shoot me.

I'll make a proper post soon, I promise.