mk_tortie | Berlin, the university version 2.0

So, I have mixed thoughts about my year abroad. I'm obviously excited - I get to go and live in Berlin for a year! I get to (hopefully) actually get fluent in the language I've been learning for so long! But at the same time I'm worried about it, for several reasons. In order to get to live in Berlin, I have to go study at the Humboldt for a year. Now, from the outside, that really doesn't look like a hardship, I know - it's one of the best unis in Germany, ffs! It's just that I really want to get a first, and I'm scared that I'm going to cack that up by not understanding enough next year to get good marks, and writing really awful essays because my German is crap. It's really scary. Now, I know I don't have to use all my marks, but still, it's worrying. Also, I'm a bit scared about living on my own/finding a flatmate in Berlin, cos I don't really know how the whole renting thing works out there, and I don't know if I'll be able to share with anyone from King's, because I'm sure they already have other plans.

To be honest, I think the main thing that's scaring me is that I don't really know what to expect, at all. And I don't like that at all. I'm the sort of person who likes to plan, I suppose.