Since we have already succumbed to self-admiration, starting a website about ourselves, our own Facebook fanpage (click here if you still haven’t given it a like), not to mention our self-promoting instagram account (to be found under this link), we concluded that a single post devoted to us and our adventures couldn’t do much difference anymore. So here you go, some fun facts about our stay in Göttingen, in a random order:
1. We’ve still got 3 weeks of holidays ahead of us. Now you probably wonder, if you got it quite right. Yes, three weeks. I hope you’re having fun in Warsaw, already starting your classes at 8 in the morning.
2. We don’t have to cook. I don’t mean that we don’t cook (and you will soon find out, that what we cook is quite a treat), but that we don’t have to. There are a couple of canteens spread throughout the campus, serving many kinds of dishes – vegetarian, fish, vegan, meat, diet, pasta, salad, grill, sweet… Not to mention wurst and kartoffeln, we’re in Germany, you know.
3. To make you feel a bit better about Warsaw: Göttingen has terrible before-party facilities. I mean, shot bars. Or should I use singular, for there’s only one. Not to get too deep into the details, best just don’t go there, for if you do, you won’t know what you’re ordering and when your order comes it might turn out to be vodka with sugar and whipped cream. Btw. of course we didn’t drink it, we would never.
4. We visited our new clinical hospital last week. It’s great and there’s a lot to be said about it, but first things first. The hospital has this one thing, that we have never ever seen in a health care unit and neither have you. Carpet. Endless square metres of soft, yellowish fabric, with a pattern that was last deemed stylish somewhere in the mid ’80s, reachig far beyond the horizon… We’re lost for words.
5. Again subject medicine, but getting a little more serious: what we like a lot about our new Uni is STÄPS. It’s a training centre, where you can practise a lot of examination techniques, simple and more complicated procedures, you can even borrow an ultrasound machine and abuse your friends’ bellies untill you become a pro. Or they vomit. On the carpet.
6. We have recently celebrated a first göttinger birthday party. One conclusion that I drew from the preparation of birthday cake is that you can never trust an oven that doesn’t belong to you. What you should do is stay cautious throughout the whole process. And it might still turn out, that even despite a doubled or trippled baking time the dessert still stays undercooked. Of course, not that it happened this time…
7. Have I already mentioned that we are still on holidays?
8. Our German course is going swell, our language skills flourish. 4,5 hours of lessons daily, 5 times a week and I’m a native speaker. It means that, now I can turn any sentence with any number of verbs into just one noun. Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz, bitches.
9. We live in the most respectful neighbourhood of town. That is, whenever we mention the adress to a German person, they turn pale, and congratulate us. I think I might have heard once something like “congratulations on still being alive”, but I couldn’t be sure. Probably it’s just jealousy.
10. And the last fact is that we still miss you a lot, real badly. But what we do not miss is our university. And therefore it would be highly recommendable for you people to come and visit us here! However hard it may be to put yourselves in a car and drive for eight hours, we’re sure you can manage. We’ve already spent 4 years at our university and we know, that you’re not as busy learning as you claim. So see you soon in Göttingen!
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