8 May 2003
Dear Jessica,
Thank
you
for your interesting letter. I also enjoyed the four weeks we spent
together in Australia. All my other friends are so jealous when I show
them the pictures. I’ll never forget those days, especially our
fascinating trip to Ayers Rock. I wish I could be there now.
Back at university, it
seems as if again nothing has changed: because the rooms are too small, the
lecturers only allow students who are at least in their fourth semester to
attend the courses. So I (third semester) have been kicked out of six courses
so far. I really hate not to get into a seminar which interests me. Am I
supposed to attend only those seminars nobody gives a damn about? Or should I
give in and study several terms longer? I don’t feel like doing either. Even
if you stand in line for hours and finally make it into a course, the room
usually is jam-packed. This circumstance eventually leads to a lower quality
of the course. We won’t be as qualified as we should be!
There aren’t enough
rooms either. No wonder, if you think of the fact that the university in
Koblenz
was constructed for about
1,600 students and there are actually as many as 4,800 students. The problems
have been the same every semester since we moved to the new campus. I’m so
fed up with this situation. It really sucks!
One reason for this
disaster is money, as always. Why isn’t there enough money? What do they do
with all the money? Isn’t education one of the most important things in
life? If the people in charge don’t know how to spend the money correctly,
they should ask us. For example, they had to have this stupid, ridiculous and
unnecessary fountain. This silly thing even works when it’s raining. Instead
they could have built another floor.
By the way, you’ve
just started college. Do you have the same problems in
Great Britain? If you don’t, you’re especially lucky. I mean, I hope that you don’t
have to experience all these bloody things but the situation can’t be so
much better in
Britain, can it? I’m truly sorry to bother you with all this stuff but I think that
you can understand the way I’m feeling at the moment.
Maybe we could meet
during our week off at Whitsun. It would be great to see you again and
just get out of this. Please call or write back a.s.a.p.!
Love,
Andrea
P.S. I’m going to write a letter to the head
honcho… or whatever he’s called, right now!!