Und die Uni fängt an…

So yesterday (Monday) began the first day of ‘real’ classes. Würzburg is like a whole new world! There are so many more people, which has many ups…and naturally a few downs (soo hard to squeeze into the bus now-haha or the Straßenbahn for that matter, but so it goes). Sports are starting up: I plan on playing basketball three nights a week, and then am taking a beginning women’s soccer class, which meets once a week. Today I finally figured out my classes (yes, the day after the semester began). Yesterday, I woke up, and realized there was a class I wanted to check out. It’s Christian art history—or something along these lines. After finding the building, I realized I would much rather take Sportsbiologie, which is on the same day. So…later that day I made my way over to Sportzentrum, across the river, where the class is held. Not many people showed up, and we were talking and wondering why—Apparently, the class doesn’t begin until next week. It’s so nice though now being able to make small talk with people, and nobody asks where I am from or tries to speak English with me. It makes me feel like they do not know that I am not from here (although many times I feel completely obvious). So, first day of school, no classes worked out, I decided to go get my sports ausweis (ID so I can play sports/use the Fitnessstudio—gym). The system always has to be difficult here, so I get up to the other sportzentrum but we need a passport foto with us. Oh well, tomorrow, manaña, domani, am morgan—this has become my slogan. No rush, there’s always tomorrow. I’ve become extremely chilled out here, unsure if this is a good or bad thing…hopefully not lazy-haha, I just do what I want to do, when I want to do it. So today (Tuesday), we went to sign up for DAF courses (Deutsch als Fremdsprache=German as a Second Language). Waited for TWO hours, then finally got in to sign up for classes. (Oh yeah, the day before I picked up my test from the Sekretar from my intensive German Course—got a 93%, so I can take advanced now). Signed up for a few classes there, which don’t start until next week. Then, a buddy of mine told me about an anatomy class he was going to check out. Of course, I was interested in coming along—so I just got back from this class now, and it was great! I understood pretty much everything (a lot is review, since I already had anatomy—most is in latin). We went and talked to the professor after class, so we are set. It’s taught by the medicine faculty, should be good for me to get the ball rolling back into the sciences after my semester break. I’ve also decided to take Sports sociology, which is in the morning. I really love taking these other courses as an actual student--I’m learning what they are actually learning here, the substance, not only language details (although that’s coming too…).
I feel so good at the moment, like every opportunity is at my fingertips. Part of me thinks about changing my career path a bit…a big step, which I had previously thought on, but was more of a passing thought. We’ll see…I’m looking at all of my options. I have one year of commitment left to Pacific, will leave with 2 degrees…some amazing experiences and a nice pumped-up resume. Then a world ahead of me to conquer. Haha.