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Three weeks in...

So I39ve started a blog for my year abroad which you probably gathered since you39re reading this D This first entry39s a bit long promise any further ones will not be anywhere near as arduous.Three weeks ago on Saturday 27th August Mum Dad and I travelled to London Waterloo by train and crossed London to St Pancras station in a taxi. There was a long wait for my train to Brusse

Weimar Germany

A nice straightforward drive today and a lovely suprise when we entered the hotel it was fantastic. The cheapest so far but with a swimming pool and sauna. The perfect relaxation after quite a lot of driving. The hotel was just off the motorway so easy to find in a nice rural setting and it also had bikes to hire for free so me and Sam went for a spin this evening but didn39t quite make it

Our Trip to a Baltic Sea cruise on Princess Cruises Monday August 1 2011Berlin Germany

Rise and shine 530am in morning was the way the day started however this is a good. My daughter was celebrating her 20th birthday on the cruise. What an awesome way to spend your birthday. Great memory maker. The weather in the morning was foggy drizzle and very cool jacket weather. Our port was Warnemunde Germany.Just an interesting point about 90 of Berlin was total destroyed during WWI

Buchenwald Concentration camp

Buchenwald concentration camp near the town of Weimar. Being the 3rd largest camp under the 3rd Reich it was set up in 1938 to deal with the problems of non workers and other dissedents who did not want to be part of the new Germany.Over 56000 died there from 1938 to 1945 with adults and children being sent there from all over Europe.Gypsies homosexuals handicapped Jews Jehovah Witnesesses

Weimar

Und endlich melde ich mich aus einer ziemlich langen Sommerpause zurueck....und eroeffne die Saison mit einem kurzen Bericht ueber meine ersten Eindruecke in der Provinz.5 Wochen werde ich insgesamt in Weimar wohnen im HedwigPfeifferHaus das in dieser Zeit nur unserer Gruppe von 25 Studenten und 2 Lehrkraeften zur Verfuegung steht. Ideal gelegen naemlich direkt am Park bietet das Haus genug

Weimar Buchenwald

We started bright and early Friday morning to get to Weimar. It was a long train trip so most of us slept or listened to our ipods and when we got there the first thing we did was go to Buchenwald the concentration camp that was set up about 8 km outside of town. This was one of the things I was really excited to do because visiting a concentration camp is on my bucket list I think it39s

Still in Germany

so here is my my first entry still on German ground

Tripreport Daytrip ErfurtSuhl mit C9 und DO328

Kleine Zusammenfassung des Daytrips nach ErfurtSuhl. Ziel war eine Arbeitsmesse in Suhl mit nur 350km ab Mnchen wre es mit dem Auto am schnellsten gewesen aber htte nicht halb soviel Spa wie fliegen gemacht. Zum Glck ist Erfurt nicht weit entfernt und den Daytrip bei Cirrus gabs schon fr 70 mit Gutschein . Cirrus fliegt hier MoMi einen Tagesrand aban Mnchen was mir mehr

Trying to keep up....

Day 5It is the 31st so Ive obviously missed a few days. The internets going in and out but the hostel is getting it checked out. Let me just start out by saying I will definitely study abroad This experience is so amazing I cant describe how cool it is to go out to eat and you can look across the table and see someone from the US UK Japan Tajikistan Russia Germany Palestine Lith

Erfurt

I had another great day in another city that I had never heard of this weekend. The city was Erfurt and I arrived there with my Colombian friend Omar and French friend Maryanne bright and early on a very fine Sunday morning. We spent the day walking around the streets of the medieval city centre taking in the sights and sounds and going back to the same icecream shop every opportunity we gotThe

Day 2

It s 100am in Erfurt and 600pm in Little Rock right now. I have been awake with only a few hours of sleep and I mean rough sleep on the plane ride and on the bus trip since I got up Thursday morning at 630am. So....I AM TIRED We weathered the 9 hour plane ride from Dallas and got to Frankfurt around 7am Frankfurt time . We had a three hour bus ride to Erfurt which we shared with 5 students and

Day 1

Today s the day. I have KSSN 96 blaring in the background to make sure that I get up and about. My suite case is still half way empty I tend to be a last minute person. That just makes things more exciting more of a rush a am I going to make it on time attitude. However when it comes to catching my flight to head to Europe I don t really plan on having that rush of am I going to make it or

July 7 2010 Buchenwald and Gieen then on to Kln

After an easy nondriving day in Leipzig we girded our loins for a tougher day driving across northern Germany. Our route would take us to Buchenwald near Weimar then to Gieen then on to Kln. All told the journey would be some 519 km 322 miles. This area of Germany is mostly rolling hills forested in areas and driving on the modern highways is very easy. Most of the driving was on fr

Weimar and Buchenwald

Weimar is a cultural centre near to Leipzig where Goethe and Schiller resided and where the Weimar Republic had its consitution drafted. We spent a few hours walkin around the streets of Weimar checking out the city centre and historical sites. After that we went to Buchenwald a horribly fascinating place where an estimated 56000 or so people were killed and 240000 incacerated. It was a concen

Buchenwald and Weimar

Weimar just an hour by train from Leipzig is a wonderful historical little town. It seems like every famous German person in the history of Germany has lived in Weimar. Okay so maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration but Schiller Goethe Bach Strauss Nietzsche Martin Luther Wagner and Marlene Dietrich all lived here at some point. I was spending the night with Kathrin and Hendrik who are

Aaaagh Europe is expensive

So today after school Ellie and I focused on planning for our travel at the end of our time here. The hostels we were looking at were like...15night which is CHEAP and as Ellie pointed outa bed and a shower BUT we're looking at Eurail passes and trying to figure out our itinerary. It's sooo frustrating There's no one country pass for Germany so it looks like we'll be buying a two c

You'll Spoil Your Dinner...

We ate this ice cream today.And that's all we did today.Just kidding Here's a short note I wrote my mom about todayHey MomI like German church. We did a lot of singing which I love of course. It's not the WUMC though and I thought about you all this morning. The service was of course in German. Ellie and I read the scripture Acts 242end. It made me miss Mr. Wilson's class quite a

Cold Relaxing Saturday

This morning we had breakfast together as usual. I had my first soft boiled egg and I really liked it. It reminded me of taking a fried egg sunny side up. When I looked out the window it was 10 degrees and raining BRRR But I'm sure we'll be getting some warm weather coming our way soon.After breakfast everybody cleaned up a little. After Ellie and I finished our room and the bathroom

My Second Youth Meeting

Last night I went to my second Youth meeting in Germany. Ellie and I started chilli con carne during Teenies and we went out to play volleyball afterward. We played one game with random teams and another game girls v. guys. Before we finished the second game we went in to check on the chilli. There were 14 people there in total which is more than we expected. We had enough food though so

A Summary of Tuesday and Wednesday

Don't think I'm not keeping track of what's happened just because I haven't uploaded it Here's a rather brief description of Tuesday and WednesdayTuesday we went to the Regular School Realschule in the morning. We entered the school and people were using the words American and English a lot. They were so excited they were running around and jumping up and down. Keep in mind this is