Freiburg im Breisgau - Heimat?

So, I am already failing at my blogging duties, since I've been in Freiburg almost two weeks now and have barely said anything thereon. As I type this, though, almost everything is getting underlined by spell check, because spell check is set to German.

The picture above is the Freiburg Munster. It's pretty old, and was built starting as a normal-sized church and added-on to until it was the hulking behemoth it is now. It's kinda neat, and pretty, but it's really easy to get jaded to Churches here, especially when you wern't hugely fond of them in the first place.

Freiburg is the Green Capitol of southern Germany. My building has water heated by solar power (too gorram hot) and there's a line of shops on Merzhauserstraße, right next store, that have solar panels all overtheir roofs. To add to the granola-fest, I live next to a squat! I'm actually rather excited about that, and hopefully I'll get to know some of the nice folk at Kommando Rhino over the next few months.

I'm putting off doing homework right now, and it's 1:30 in the morning (class at 9), so I'm going to end this with a short list of things to know when coming to Germany:

• Under no circumstances should you break your fellow tram-passengers' delusions that they are the only ones on the tram. No eye contact, no talking, no smiling.
• Doors to buildings open inward. I still have to pay attention when opening doors so I don't look like a moron.
• No free water. You pay for water in restaurants - and most likely it's sparkling, not many places have any Wasser ohne Gas.
• Pizza is eaten with forks and knives.
• Loaves of bread are called 'toast bread.' Americans are weird for eating lots of it.

Good night!