3 words to describe: HAIX HAIX HAIX

It's so HARD to attend lectures in GERMAN!!
#1 Hard to catch what the lecturers say cos either too fast or too muffled.
#2 I don't know the statistical terms in German.
#3 Their handwritting is slightly different to ours. Their "1" has that slanted stroke before the straight vertical stroke. Their other alphabets also has a curve before the start of the alphabet. haix. can take me quite long to figure out what they are writing.
#4 Lousy technology: no visualizer so whatever the teacher prepared on paper, he needs to copy out on the board. and since their handwritting I can't read, I take very long and it's super tiring to follow the lecture IN GERMAN as well as copy the notes.
#5 So, most of the time I cannot understand what they talking about. The highest level that I can reach is make sense of the stuff they've written on the board.
#6 The tutorial totally don't know how to do. ):

So what have I been doing?
#1 Photocopy the reference book. THANK GOODNESS all are in English. BUT, I had problems finding one of the book in the library and was soooo sad. Until I got my friend from another University to borrow from his University's library.
#2 Translate my notes into English. I'm RE-WRITING everything in English on another book so that I can read in English when it's nearing the exams.
#3 Making a vocabulary book of german statistical terms.
#4 Reading the English reference book.

All these are taking up a lot of my time. I'm like mugging everyday and totally no life. So sad here. I'm more hardworking here than in SG lor. Which is not what it's supposed to be. But no choice. STUDYING HERE IS MAKING ME DEPRESSED.

BUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT, I'm still trying to have some life and make my exchange a memorable one. Have been initiating some trips and asking if anyone wants to join, initiating dinner gatherings like prata dinner (: etc.

Guess another thing that is making me not enjoying to the fullest because I don't have a fixed group of friends or friends whom I can show my "siao-siao-ness" to. I guess this can't be help since I've only been here for <1 month. Hope the coming 3 months would be better! (:

p.s. Friends from SG reading this, I miss showing you my craziness!

Oh and I met a group of NTU students here!! YEAH more Singaporeans to speak Singlish with~~ They are really nice and had invited me over for dinner. And their friends are really nice too!! YEAH! More friends. haha.