Heute war ich müde. Oh, und gibt es ein Weindorf in Reutlingen!

Despite going to bed early, I was still exhausted all day today! I may have gotten too much sleep.

Today was a big day at the office - we packed folders with information for the incoming international students who are taking the RIO and ESB intensive courses starting next week. Not only did the RIO team help assemble these packets, but also members of the ESB team, so it was a large group. It took us about an hour to assemble over 200 packets, but they finally were completed.

It was nice to have this hour with people from the RIO office and another office. I got a chance to speak more of my German! There was also a young woman from Mexico who was kind of in the same boat that I am. She came to Germany (although, she knew NO German when she came) and studied here. She got a job or praktikum afterwards, and she is still here 2 years later! She said that it helped a lot that the women in the office only spoke German to her. I will be giving a campus tour with her on Monday when everyone arrives here.

Once the packets were done, I spent the remainder of my work day folding brochures for the RIO tandem program and making name tags for everyone for Monday.

On my break, I decided to start watching the movie Epic. It is a kids movie, but I saw a woman watching it on the plane on my way to Germany and I was really curious ever since.

I was hooked after the first 5 minutes. The movie is adorable and has a great story line! I only got a chance to get through about 45 minutes of the movie before my break was over.

The reason I only had the 45 minutes to watch my movie was because I finally sold my first set of bedding to a student today! He ended up coming over to Wurm Haus around 1 p.m. in the middle of my break. I (hopefully) gave him all the pieces he will need! I only realized after he left that he never paid me.

Of course.

I only realized that AFTER he left.

It worked out fine, though. I had his number that he gave me earlier in the day in case there were any problems, and I sent him a quick text asking him about the money. It turned out that he had already paid for the bedding in the RIO office, which worked out just fine for me!

I got back to work and did my thing for the two hours, and then returned back to my apartment. I made pasta with the veggies that I had in my fridge, which turned out to be pretty good, and then ended up meeting up with some of the Valpo women for a trip downtown. Reutlingen is having it's Weindorf (a wine festival in downtown Reutlingen) and we went to go check it out.

 

The literal translation of "Weindorf" is a small wine city.

 

I tried a Schwarzriesling and then a Rose wine, both native to Baden-Württemberg. At the first place, we were told that we could keep the cup that we had drank our wine out of (a really cute cup, too!) for only ,50€! Obviously we said yes to this. At the second place, they just re-filled our cups with the next bit of wine. The two glasses that I had were ,25 L each, so about 1/4 bottle of wine each. A few of us also grabbed a slice of cake, which was AMAZING! We ended up choosing plum cake which was tart and very much like a strudel. We had them put some whipped cream on top, of course.

The beautiful view of the Marienkirche from our table.
Yes, the Germans had a wine festival in front of, and around, the main church in town.

 

 

  

My delicious rose wine and plum cake.

 

 

Some men with a guitar and accordion playing background music for our Weindorf experience.

 

Once we were finished, we ended up (luckily) catching the 9 p.m. bus out of the Stadtmitte and made our way home.

Another fun night in Reutlingen. :)