Basically those three things sum up a lot of my recent activities pretty well. I'm beat from today. We took a train at about 11 this morning (me, Destiny, Vanky, and Emily) to this town called Triberg where there's Germany's highest waterfall. The train ride there was pretty normal, until you got into the black forest. Then your train was on the side of a hill overlooking a valley of forested pines and rolling green hills of farm land. That second half of the train ride was unlike anything I've done before... (I don't think I've ever been so moved by transportation! I couldn't stop taking pictures). The town of Triberg is not too large and is really situated in a valley between the hills. The center of town was rather deserted when we got there, first of all because it wasn't tourist season and second of all because it was lunch time, when every business decided to close for two hours. It was hard to find somewhere to eat lunch and we ended up just getting stuff from a bakery.
Because the town was a tourist town, there were a lot of signs in English and a few American flags flying around. To see the waterfall itself it cost 3 euro of course, but the walk up to the top of the waterfall was straight out of lord of the rings. I honestly think if I would have sat on a rock near those falls for a week or two, I could become inspired enough to churn out a great novel, they were breathtaking. The forests around the waterfall were just as cool; 200-300 year old fir trees and then giant boulders covered in moss. We hiked around the waterfall when we noticed there was a sign for a high ropes course. Curious we followed the english signs until we found, you would never guess, a really cool high ropes course. It was one of the most fun things I've done in Germany so far. We did the top two levels that were the hardest and the highest... Which looking back it might have been better to start off slow, but it was alright in the end. There were a few parts in the beginning though were I had to force myself to jump or to climb. And it was well worth it. One of the courses went high up in the trees in the hills and midway there was a clearing so you could look down the valley and over the town. It was truly awesome. Also, jumping off of a small platform a hundred feet off the ground even with a harness can make you nervous. But the exhilaration made the pain of death-gripping the wire cables totally worth it.
After our 3 hour adventure in the trees, we went down to town and ate at a local restaurant. I had a pork steak with potatoes and onions and of course a local beer and chocolate for desert. Who needs vegetables? But it was really good. We got lucky and caught the next train home which took about an hour and a half. But I love riding on that train out of the black forest. I think I may write a poem or prose about that train ride some day. Someone needs to for god sakes.
Anyway so that was today. Yesterday we went to a cool student bar in the evening after I had a productive day of setting up a bank and planning my classes.
Day before that we all went to the bars for Yana's last night in town. It was really sad to see her go. Our professor also met up with us at the bars and that was really fun. After the bars we went downtown to try to go to a club, but Yana forgot her ID sadly and they wouldn't let us in. I tried to get us into a second bar close to that one, but it was a fancy club, and my bad German didn't impress the picky bouncer, who assumed we all were drunk and not classy enough for his snobby bar. Guy didn't know what he missed out on!
Right now my computer has a virus... which sucks... I'm also trying to plan my trip to the UK now so I'll probably finish that tomorrow! I'm beat now, so I'm gonna hit the hay! Night!
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