(My morning coffee)

Okay okay, so it's been long time no post I know, and I'm sorry if you were wondering if I ever even made it to Konstanz, and instead ended up riding trains with a bunch of hairless moravian gigilos- but no, I am here in Konstanz, and I have so much to post about it makes me want to shit. But after a glorious outing to the beach today, cut short by a bit of rain, I now have some eben-time to sit here and tell you many little tidbits.

Firstly, I am going to skip out on telling you about Austria because, while it was beautiful and very 'sound of music' everywhere, it is too boring to tell about, and really I need to catch this blog up to date.

So... I am having sooo much fun here. It is almost cliché to talk about how cool it is to be in a group of a hundred or so students from all over the world, but a couple anecdotes might help illustrate just how cool it is.

1) I have made close friends with three Israelis from Tel Aviv who are really smart and hilarious and make holocaust jokes every five seconds, especially when we are waiting in line or near a train station. We are pretty much inseparable, and they are teaching me some Hebrew code-words so we can make fun of other people without them knowing.

2) At a party last night in my building and at one point was in the middle of a conversation between my friend Yael, a really funny Kurdish guy from Iraq and (to a lesser extent but I will include him because he was standing nearby and trying to say intelligent things every once and awhile) an American who had made tours of both Iraq and Afghanistan, and all of us discussing the im/possibility of conflict resolution in their respective regions. Also met my very first Uzbeki- nice guy. Also talked RnB and soul music with Pierre from Paris.

3) When a turk winks at you, it means 'hi, friend'- not 'I want to fuck you'

4) Most turkish words are onomatapaeic- Roy is teaching me some. ('Chak-mak' is a lighter, because the flint goes "chak chak chak"

5) Taking a shit in the bathroom stall at school the other day reading the graffitti, and saw the passage/poem from the Lord of the Rings, (you know, 'Three rings for the Elven kings.. etc.') written out in full, five times in five languages, buy five different people (cz the handwritings were all different).

So those are just a few things I can remember off the top of my head right now, (party was just last night, not quite at the top of my game here) but I'm sure there will be more.

I want to do a post next on like, "Ten things you probably don't know about Konstanz" or germany- but something like that anyways, but I'll have to save up some good tidbits. Also expect periodic posts on really great words and phrases from foreign languages, (Roy tells me it is common in Hebrew to threaten to take a shit in someone's mouth, as in: "Mother, if you don't stop your haranguing I am going to shit in your mouth!")

Ok- one more little thing: Met up with a Slovenian dude waiting for the bus the other day, who introduced me to this other, (really cute) Slovenian girl. I told him I really like to read a famous Slovenian author named Slavoj Žižek, but he said he had never heard of him, so he asked the girl. She said she didn't really know a lot about him either, but that she knew he was a famous, brilliant author because he sat next to her on a train once, talked to her for two full hours and gave her an article written about him from a stack he was carrying along with him. Can u baleedat? Hi-larious.

Ok so, I will also take more pictures of my flat, my uni and my hood. And I will get more party pictures with my new friends so you can all be jealous.

Tschüssie!