So actually, that was supposed to be “Auf Wiedersehen” even though it sounds like the W is a V. (Typo!) 

Oktoberfest was great.  We woke up at 7 am so we could get to the beer garden-tent-things and grab a seat.  I went with my friend Lena, her boyfriend, and her two friends, and I wore one of her friend’s traditional Bavarian dresses.  They serve one-liter beers at Oktoberfest, and I took two hours to finish mine.  By the end of our stay in the tent, we were all dancing on the table with everyone in the room to traditional German Oktoberfest songs played by a live band, and at that point, I convinced myself I could speak German too, because I was singing along with them.

Every so often we would do cheers with everyone at the table.  It was a cold and rainy day, but inside the beer garden, the atmosphere was so lively and positive! 

Today I started my classes at the Sorbonne, and I felt extremely nervous in my first class, because the teacher talked so fast, and I had no idea how to spell this technical architectural jargon she was throwing at us.

Occasionally she would spell things in rapid-French, but I’m not used to the French alphabet.  It is great to finally be integrated into the French university system, though,  She said that our only homework as Americans was a thirty-page essay at the end of the semester.  You have to be kidding me.  The most I’ve ever written in French in one semester was a seven page-long paper.  AH!