Arrival in Germany

I got into Germany yesterday. It's been pretty busy so far, but that's about to calm down. I arrived at 1 pm local time on Wednsday (9/6). I got into my room right away and proceded to pass out for 2 hours. After that I went for a walk and bought some milk and cerial. I ate dinner out at a crappy italian restraunt with Alex, which is where I'm drinking this beer. Beer is really cheap here. At the supermarket it's 3 euro for a 6 pack of Becks, and even at a bar it was only 2 euro for .5L. The city has a fun downtown. It's a pedestrian only zone, and it has a bunch of shops and some restraunts and bars. After dinner I went out with Sebastian (he was a TA last year at Amherst) and Alex (the amherst student I'm here with. It was fun. Wednsday night is apparently the big college night out, I was told not to schedule classes for Thursday morning. The weather has been good so far. Highs in the 70s, lows in the 50s, so fairly simmilar to the north east. Navagating the German Beurocracy has been predictably difficult. This morning I was told to do about 17 different things. The guy who is supposed to be here and help guide me through this, no one can get a hold of. There's a rumor he's getting back on Monday so maybe I'll be able to figure out things then. Today I bought a bike, which everyone rides here. Riding it occationaly makes me feel like I'm 7, but it helps you get around a lot faster.
Notes about the Germans so far:
-The Men are Huge. I'm about average height at 6'1". There are many men who are 3-4" taller than me.
-So are the Women: I've seen more women my height in two days than the rest of my life combined.
-No one J-walks. Everyone stands there and waits for the walk signal. I ran a red light on my bike today and an older German gentleman also on a bike cornerd me and proceded to yell at me. I had to go off the path to get around him.
That's about it for now. It's almost 11 and I think the going out the night after getting 2 hours of sleep ona plane is catching up to me.