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Berlin by mortiziia
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"The Fall has come to hurt". So sings Charon´s vocalist in one of their tracks, but more than fall, it´s winter that has already come to Berlin, hurting all the same. All the leaves in the trees are almost gone and I´m anxious, thinking of the forthcoming weeks of bitter wind and perhaps snow. This weekend we had an abrupt turn on the weather: from the usual 16/8°C we´d been enjoying, the temperatures went down to 9/0° C. Welcome to reality, and the worst is yet to arrive, for we´ve had a very mild autumn: the Germans tell us that the milder the autumn, the colder the winter.
Last week was indeed horrible for me, not only because I felt a so down and blue, but because I´ve suffered great pains in my burnt hand. I couldn´t believe it when I found myself saying on Saturday : I wish it was already Monday! The weekend wasn´t really special. On Friday I had a costume party at a friend´s house, and later on the same evening, an Erasmus party at a Mexican´s flat in our hall of residence. Dreadful, both. We ended up drinking orange juice at Marilo´s flat until 5 am. On Saturday I wanted to go to K17, but once again, no way, no one wanted to pay the 5 € admission fee: this weekend I´ll go on my own, and if it IS an absolute pain, so be it.I´m working hard to follow the class rythm. I´m slaving away while my classmates are twiddling their tumbs in Malaga. Who said that it was easier to pass the exams whilst on Erasmus? It is so, actually, in Spain, at least in my University: student´s don´t even need to sit the classes. Here "ist alles ganz anders". You cannot miss the lectures and you have to work exactly as much as your fellow German classmates, teachers don´t make any distinction at all. Thus I´m learning quite a lot, especially in Economy and Law translation.
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