{"id":4209,"date":"2012-10-21T12:42:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T20:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/studyingabroad\/?p=4209"},"modified":"2012-10-21T12:42:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T20:42:05","slug":"greetings-from-greifswald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/2012\/10\/21\/greetings-from-greifswald\/","title":{"rendered":"Greetings From Greifswald!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>14. October 2012<\/p>\n<p>Despite it being mid-October already, or nearly, Greifswald is still gorgeous.\u00a0 We have days that are cold and gray and rainy, for sure, but they are not unrelenting.\u00a0 This weekend, I could walk outside in short sleeves, no jacket, no problem.\u00a0 Did I actually <em>do<\/em>, that, well, no.\u00a0 My entire apartment is sick, and that is a lot of sick people!<\/p>\n<p>I am living in what is a lot like a dormitory, except it is subdivided into smaller sections.\u00a0 Unlike at UPS, no one has access to the entire building, only to their floor and section.\u00a0 I think it is so much better; rather than feeling like I live with a hundred or so people, I only live with 6 others.\u00a0 They are all students at the university, here, and most of them are studying science, which is awesome.\u00a0 They are also all really friendly and nice, and community-oriented.\u00a0 We eat dinner together, most nights, half of them spend their afternoons playing League of Legends together, and most nights most of us are in the kitchen, playing cards or just chatting.\u00a0 And drinking beer, of course!<\/p>\n<p>Although most of these activities have diminished somewhat, because of our Erkaltung, the feeling of having a community, a family, has actually increased.\u00a0 The people who are, on a given day, less sick, take care of those who are more sick.\u00a0 Usually that entails buying tissues in bulk, and providing a constant supply of tea.\u00a0 We also all pooled our collections of medicines and herbals, so I&#8217;m not entirely sure what I&#8217;ve taken, but some of it, at least, is helping!<\/p>\n<p>The worst of it is over, though, so yay, good health!\u00a0 And I would like to note that sleeping lots and relaxing really <em>does<\/em> help; this is a remedy I never had time to try during my time at UPS!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4210\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4210\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/studyingabroad\/2012\/10\/21\/greetings-from-greifswald\/imgp4184\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4210\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4210\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2012\/10\/IMGP4184-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2012\/10\/IMGP4184-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2012\/10\/IMGP4184-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2012\/10\/IMGP4184-624x467.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Am Markt<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4211\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4211\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/studyingabroad\/2012\/10\/21\/greetings-from-greifswald\/imgp4195\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4211\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4211\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2012\/10\/IMGP4195-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2012\/10\/IMGP4195-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2012\/10\/IMGP4195-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2012\/10\/IMGP4195-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It worked.  You didn&#039;t notice.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4212\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4212\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/studyingabroad\/2012\/10\/21\/greetings-from-greifswald\/imgp4198-copy\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4212\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4212\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2012\/10\/IMGP4198-Copy-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2012\/10\/IMGP4198-Copy-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2012\/10\/IMGP4198-Copy-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2012\/10\/IMGP4198-Copy-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2012\/10\/IMGP4198-Copy.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Need a book?  Take a book.  Have a book?  Leave a book.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14. 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