Arrival and the learning curve

So after two fantastic weeks in Switzerland getting Sunburned, soaked, up and down some alps and snowed on I did my change around and am now in sunny Konstanz.  I've met a few people and learned quite a bit too.  Here are some of the highlights:

• Beer by the liter is great, more than one however, probably isn't.
• I can impress people with my German
• The accomodation leaving all the crap in in it from the last owner is pretty handy - buying your own pots and pans and odd flavoured teas is a drag
• Just buying a sim card isn't that simple
• Even if you didn't when you went to uni, or to another continent for months it is still possible to get homesick.  I'm not usually one for it but this is quite a different type of 'on your own' than either of those, and its a bit odd.  

Thats all for now, today is the beginning of the long induction course so I'm sure I'll have much more to reflect on.