Exchange Diary (CityU Students)

Tomorrow is my last exam in Germany. Compared to other exchange students, I am the earliest to finish all my exams. That means after tomorrow, I can start my holiday here. Yo!!

Today I spent the whole day studying in my room. Such a mess in my desk. Except studying, I went to supermarket to buy some food. In Germany, all shops and restaurant would be closed on Sunday. Therefore Monday is my favorite day in a week. I am reborn.

Today’s meal menu is curry chicken and frozen fish. In Germany, they dun't sell fresh alive fish. Moreover, as Mannheim is a small town, everything in supermarket is from German. That’s a good chance for us to learn German.

The necessary item for going out: German dictionary and recyclable bag

Tuesday, 9 December 2008

After the 75 minutes exam, I went shopping in the downtown, celebrating my day in a Korea restaurant. What a surprise, the staff of the restaurant can speak Cantonese fluently.

At night, I went to my friends‘s home for pre-drinking and Crêpe dinner as we had a party at a bar later. We were making Crêpe with different ingredient. Such as cheese, ham, chocolate dressing and strawberry jam. Since we had 5 people with different nationalities, we made our own favors differently.

After dinner, we went to a bar at 12:30a.m.we chatted with those cool Scandinavian. We were pretty hyper, singing, dancing and drinking all night.

In the morning, Mandy and I went to zweibrücken outlet center and it took us 2 hours to get there. With my limited German, finally we got to the outlet safely. We shopped for a whole day, got some cheap stuff at the outlet including Polo t-shirt, Lindt chocolate, CK underwear and a bottle of wine which was later on broken by my carelessness. The wine was supposed for tonight’s party-devil or angel.

Anyway I bought beers instead later. The party was a costume party. It seemed that people like to be a devil more than an angel. I wore Chinese dress as a Chinese devil tonight.

I have noticed that the culture difference between China mainlanders and hongkongese is that mainlanders love spicy hotpot with many chilis. For those who are not from China, they were so excited to try hotpot and perceived this as an European cheese or chocolate fondue. I was so stuffed and satisfied.


Friday, 12 December 2008

I have invited 20 people in Facebook, finally it came 33 people. Everyone brought their drinks and food to my party. We drank and chatted in my kitchen, then we played firework and sky balloon along the river where is located outside my student residence. This is my first time to play such mini firework. I asked people to write down their wishes for new year on the sky balloon. After that, we tried to light up the balloon, and everyone got crazy and excited. Finally we lighted up 5 balloons with tons of wishes flew into the sky. I wish all our dreams can come true.