So it's been a month since my last post and I do appologize for that but I have a feeling that this will become more of the rule than the exception in the comming months. In two weeks I move to my second placement in Weierhof and, from what I hear, my internet access will be very limited, and thus, my blogging will be very limited.
The last month has been good though. I had two Christmases, one with a German family and one with an American family and they were surprisingly very similar. I was expecting much more differences to ponder but the only ones I really noticed was that in Germany St. Nick comes on the 6th of December and they celebrate Christmas on the 24th.
Newyears was also fun. Hannah Beck (an American friend of mine from here in Giessen) and I went to Karlsruhe to party with some of my friends. I don't think I've ever breathed in so much firework smoke in my life. I don't ever want to again but it was still fun.
These past two weeks now my family has been here and we've been travelling around. We started out here in Giessen and then headed east to Leipzig and then Prague. It was my first time in the former East Bloc and it was very eye opening. In Prague we took a 7 hour guided walking tour of the city and by the end of the day we were frozen and ready for coffee and a good bout of teaching my aunt how to play Texas Hold-em. Always a recipie for good times :D
The next three nights we spend in Wintersheim which is about a 20 min drive north east of Weierhof. There is another trainee living there on a winery and they have some guest rooms that we were able to stay in. We took day trips from there to Weierhof, Heidelberg, Luxemborg, and we drove through the corner of France just to say we were there.
After leaving Wintersheim we spent an hour in the air and an hour underground and we were at the London Mennonite Center where we spent the next three nights. We went all over the city and even took a day and drove out into the countryside to Oxford and through the Cotswalds. A lovely time. And of course, while we were in London we had to see some shows. Mary Poppins and The Lion King were absolutely fenominal!
And now I'm back and life continues, at least for two weeks...after that, well, we'll see what happens.
Love and enjoyment!
David
The last month has been good though. I had two Christmases, one with a German family and one with an American family and they were surprisingly very similar. I was expecting much more differences to ponder but the only ones I really noticed was that in Germany St. Nick comes on the 6th of December and they celebrate Christmas on the 24th.
Newyears was also fun. Hannah Beck (an American friend of mine from here in Giessen) and I went to Karlsruhe to party with some of my friends. I don't think I've ever breathed in so much firework smoke in my life. I don't ever want to again but it was still fun.
These past two weeks now my family has been here and we've been travelling around. We started out here in Giessen and then headed east to Leipzig and then Prague. It was my first time in the former East Bloc and it was very eye opening. In Prague we took a 7 hour guided walking tour of the city and by the end of the day we were frozen and ready for coffee and a good bout of teaching my aunt how to play Texas Hold-em. Always a recipie for good times :D
The next three nights we spend in Wintersheim which is about a 20 min drive north east of Weierhof. There is another trainee living there on a winery and they have some guest rooms that we were able to stay in. We took day trips from there to Weierhof, Heidelberg, Luxemborg, and we drove through the corner of France just to say we were there.
After leaving Wintersheim we spent an hour in the air and an hour underground and we were at the London Mennonite Center where we spent the next three nights. We went all over the city and even took a day and drove out into the countryside to Oxford and through the Cotswalds. A lovely time. And of course, while we were in London we had to see some shows. Mary Poppins and The Lion King were absolutely fenominal!
And now I'm back and life continues, at least for two weeks...after that, well, we'll see what happens.
Love and enjoyment!
David
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