Es ist nur zehn Tage gewesen?

It's only been ten days?!

So it's late Sunday night, and I am about to go to bed so that tomorrow I can go on a run (my first one in Berlin!)

I finally got my backpack organized, finished my homework, and entered all our trips and excursions and stuff onto my iCal (toolish but necessary).

Today I accidentally broke 3 or 4 plates of my host family while trying to unload the dishwasher. I was trying to do something good, but in the end just created a huge ceramic mess on the floor. That was pretty sucky and embarrassing, but in the end my hostfamily was just very kind about it.

This weekend was PACKED. I went on a ridiculous 3.5 hour tour with my cousin on Saturday, and then ate a huuuge breakfast and went to the 100 Beers restaurant. It was a great weekend.

I think I managed to hit up all the big touristy spots in Berlin last week, so during these upcoming 9 weeks I plan on just... exploring the city more at night, and hanging out finishing my work during the day (probably). We also meet our Sprachpartners (language partners) tomorrow, and I'm looking forward to that! It's been a struggle trying to switch to German with my host family after speaking English so long with them, but it's still OK: I thoroughly enjoy that they are here. I can't imagine my place without them--it would be soo damn lonely.

Anyway, I will try to keep these short and brief so that... and so that I am not scared to write a super long one that surely no one will read anyway. This needs to become a habit, or else ... yeah. My friend Patrick from back home said that a lot of people only wrote in their blogs for the first week and then stopped--hopefully that doesn't happen with this!

Guten nacht,
Charlton