Blogging from Berlin! I've been living in a college near Technische Universitaet Berlin for the last couple of weeks, taking German courses and settling in. This is the most amazing city. It's so huge and there are so many people everywhere. It's not unusual to go into a club at 6am, the parties go right through til 10am the next day. People from all over the world live in my college and take German lessons with me, so I've been making some cool friends, but it's been hard to actually meet German people. Hopefully when uni starts I'll meet some students from Berlin. It's been hard to try and work out which courses I should take, but I've got a pretty good idea now. I'm hoping to get these courses approved: 'Thermodynamik II' in place of 'Chemical Thermodynamics'; 'Stroemungslehre I' in place of 'Fluid Mechanics for Civil Engineers'; 'Management of Sustainable Development' (yay, a course in English!) in place of 'Introduction to Environmental Management' (a part B elective at UQ); 'Technische Waermungslehre' in place of 'Heat and Mass Transfer'. Then I need an extra subject to make up a full time load, but I haven't managed to find anything yet. Maybe a German course would be a good idea. So much organising goes into an exchange and it's always more complicated than you expect. I've been running around trying to get hold of people and handing in things for two weeks and I'm still not even properly registered at uni! Here you need health insurance waivers and things to even start the enrolment process. Plus, because uni's free here, there are fees for everything. I have to buy internet at college and at uni, it costs to wash your clothes and to use facilities like the music practise room. But it's all worth it, I'm having the best time and I'm super excited about starting uni in two weeks :-)