Last Day of August

Aug 31
Today is Monday and it is the day that our group splits up into 4 smaller groups. The Swaebish Hall (It's really spelled with an umlaut over the the first a, but I'm not going to bother to type it) group which is myself, Jesse, Amy, Mickey, Paul, Anna, and Kelsey left around 830 in the morning from our hostel. All the other groups were going to start using their EUrail passes, but we didn't because we had such a short trip. This way we have one more EUrail pass to use later.
Since we changed trains by not using the passes, we had to wait about an hour and a half at the train station for our train. It left at 1030 and we got to Swaebish Hall by 1200. I had to ask people on the street where the Goethe institute was because we really didn't know. They were really helpful and we got there without a problem.
Once we got to the Goethe institute we were told a little bit about where to find stores and where our rooms were. Paul and I had to take a proficiency test in German, and we both thought it was really hard. The test took a little over an hour and it really tired me out. The students are divided into ten or so classes depending on how much German they knew. Everybody except for me and Paul are in the A0 class. I think Paul is in the A 2.1 class and I'm in the A 2.2 class. That is the highest class of the beginner classes. I also got my room key and trekked up the hill (a pattern?) to my room.
The rooms here are single bed rooms, and every two rooms are connected by a bathroom. My room is right next to Jesse's so we share a bathroom and shower. The room is about the size of the one I lived in when I was a Freshman at Bethel, so it's roomy for one person. We also get our own refrigerators, which will be nice because we only have breakfasts provided for us.
I only had a few minutes to throw all my stuff in my room because the others had been waiting for me to finish the test and eat lunch with them. We found the nearest Kebap stand and ate there. After eating we went shopping for some food and drinks to keep in our rooms.
I took a little time to read a book in my room and relax a little bit. I had started reading Angels and Demons by Dan Brown at the train station, and by the end of the day I had finished half of it (I got to page 450). We went on a short excursion into the town to buy some dinner. We ate Lahmacun, which is like a rolled up pizza with no cheese. I went to bed early so that I would be fresh in the morning.