May 7, 2012
Another
Sunday, another week in Germany. I can’t really believe it sometimes, that I’m
here in Germany. I guess its become normal now. The thing is, everyday I find
something little that just makes me so happy and just reminds me what kind of
incredible opportunity I have right now. I had two of those moments today. One
was this morning, while I was sitting eating a nice Sunday Brunch, I looked out
the window to see off in the distance the two towering green steeples of one of
my favorite churches in Freiburg. Behind the two tall towers the crystal blue
sky and the swabs of white cotton clouds sailing through the sky. I think that
picture will be in my mind forever. The second was just about an hour ago, I
was out walking on Seepark and I was on the edge of the water and I just
couldn’t believe where I was. The water in front of me, still as can be, all
the way to the back-lying mountains with their wind turbines flashing red
softly in the night. I mean yes it was just a park at night, but this was a
place that I had gotten too… that made it that special… It wasn’t just a park
that I was walking in, but it was a park that I had reached on my adventure,
and it made the beauty that much more enchanting. I’m going to miss these
moments when I’m home, but I shouldn’t be thinking about that now.
This
week was a lot of fun. It was the second week of my classes (The first week
being kinda bogus, since it was obviously just hand out materials, except for
one class….one that was really hard) and we had Tuesday off for 1. May! Woo Hoo
Labor! Anyway, on Tuesday we went to Breisach, the German border town to
France. I went with the Itailan group and it was quite a lot of fun! We saw the
main gate, the church, a statue representing Europe, had lunch on a terrace,
walked to France, played some games in the streets, and then had some nice
afternoon snacks at a restaurant before heading home. Guh I love that group!
This
Friday and Saturday I had my block seminare for one of my political science
classes… and let me tell you what hard in a classroom is like. Its like a
complex political theory discussion in another language when the professor
turns to you and clearly asks you a question because the way he and everyone
else in the room look at you, but you have no inkling as to what he may be
asking. And then also giving a presentation (with some other Germans) on
Saturday on the American political system (which wasn’t bad! Well at least the
material…) I really liked my group there was this girl named Carolyn (Caro for
short) she was from somewhere north of Munich… on the Main river. But she
wanted to move to Hamburg. Dominique was also another guy in my group. He was
checking out a Diablo 3 website while we were waiting on our pizza to be
delivered, so I’m pretty sure we would get along pretty well too. Overall
though the blockseminare took 14 hours of my time this weekend! A long
time!
On Saturday after my blockseminare I had dinner with
Destiny, Eric, and Emily and then played my first game of Siedler von Catan! It
was pretty fun, but my first time didn’t go so well… I didn’t really know how
to strategize… but NOW I know what I’m doing hahaha! So that was fun. After
that I went to a cinco de Mayo party! I was only there for a little bit because
everyone soon after left to go to the city middle to catch the last train, but
it was nice to be with everyone together!
Was noch?? Hmmm I also joined a gym this week! The
Germans do work out stuff a little
differently than we do in the states, so I kinda looked like a black sheep in a
mound of snow, trying to figure out where everything was. It was pricey, but I
really needed it. And the facilty is quite lovely if I may say so!
I guess sad news is my SD card still wont work… some of my
classes may overlap… and well I think those might be the biggest ones.
Anyway, ya things are going well here! I hope to have more
adventures soon!
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