As aforementioned, Sheffield is doing a great job welcoming new students. The weather is uncommonly fair and everybody's trying to make it easy for us to like the city. And it works. There's also things, however, that we don't understand. Maybe our command of the English language is insufficient... - but does the following statement make sense to you?

If we find the time, we might pop in and demand clarification:-P

Apropos time: since we hadn't had the time to explore the city due to uni stuff that had to be taken care of, it was our first visit to the city just as much as it was Jan and Max' first one when we went to the city centre yesterday. There are lots of nice buildings and beautiful places to hang out. It's all a large mish mash of Victorian and modern architecture, but it's kind of charming at that...

Definition #4: hen night, British: see German hen night. With the difference that drinking is prohibited in the streets of the city centre, which, however, doesn't keep British hens from wearing pink cowboy hats and behaving just as nuts as their German sister hens

Our first visit to a Sheffield pub was quite typically British as we popped in around 5pm.

Insight #3: comparing a pub in Britain to a pub in Germany is like comparing Usain Bolt to a disabled turtle. You can do it. But it doesn't make sense.

Clarification: We were the first guests of the day, but it didn't take more than a few minutes until the place was starting to fill with professionals who came to the pub after work. They didn't even bother to sit down - with music being turned louder every other minute, eventually blaring almost as loud as in a club, they were standing around, shouting anything that came to their mind and made the whole thing seem rather like a full-grown party. At half five!

Definition #5: half xy (with xy being a variable for any one- or two-digit number from 1 to 12), eg. half five: half past xy (half past five). No point showing up at "halb fünf" cause you'll be waiting for a full hour.

This town sure is a place to have fun. Imagining to be studying here is quite difficult, though - uni is starting tomorrow...