Tuesday was wonderful. Saw my first opera, Carmen, in French of course..but with Italian accents and German subtitles overhead. It was a pretty good test for my reading, though. I actually understood a lot :)...much more than beforehand, during which I was completely unaware of the subtitles...and I know no French. Imagine how that went haha. Afterward was a pretty long commute back home and test number two of German went exceedingly well also :). Ordered a train ticket to Koeln online and then Wednesday morning, booked a hotel room for a few days. The day was spent going out with my class. We went to a museum about the Stasi regime and then visited Hohenschoenhausen, which was one of their prisons in the middle of Berlin. It really shocked me that water torture surfaced at all in a place like contemporary Europe, but I guess that says a little bit about how sheltered I am. That afternoon was a little bit of shopping at Alexanderplatz and then went to Ghost Writer with Emilia at the Cinemaxx with Emilia. I didn't really like it, but be your own judge, I guess...Yesterday was a very fun class..not that everyday isn't fun anyway..but we made waffles from scratch with ice cream. The girls' team made much better waffles, of course. Yesterday night was mainly watching German soap operas and chatting with a new housemate. Her name's Katelyn and she's from New Zealand. I'm a bit sad that I won't be here longer to get to know the people that are moving in for other classes. It's getting a little bit late for me to have no Friday night plans, but I'm content watching play backs from the Brazil/Netherlands game right now. If there's an adventure later, you'll be sure to hear about it in a couple of days :)