Since it's the first couple of weeks of the program, I'm still in the Germany honeymoon slash stereotypical phase. I've gone on multiple castle hikes this past week and have had Schnitzel, Wurst, and Döner many times :] Today we visited Marksburg castle. The view over the Rhein River was amazingly beautiful. We couldn't have asked for a better day weather-wise to visit.
We got a tour throughout the castle grounds and saw the kitchen area, bedroom, old musical instruments, ever the torture room. It's all from the middle ages and totally preserved. Then we visited Mayschloss and had a wine tasting. It was actually very successful coordinating a group on 150 international students on three buses throughout Germany. As the wine cellar, each country had to sing a song in their Muttersprache. For America, we put on a medley (there's so many of us, it was the most democratic way to decide what to do). I started off by singing the first verse of Eminem's 'Cleaning Out My Closet' in front of a hundred people, then Take Me Out to the Ball Game, then All-Star by Smash Mouth. It was so much fun! The Wisconsin kids all sang 'Varsity' later in the night and we all broke into 'Build Me Up Buttercup' probably half a dozen times during the trip. Come on, you can't have a bus ride and
not break into song!
Tomorrow I might head to a big female-centered flea market near Bonn, and then Ikea with some Wisco girls, and maybe Thai massages and face masks in the afternoon. We may not be in university level classes yet, but hey, intensive school every morning for 3 and a half hours is stressful! We need a girls' weekend :]
I can't stress enough how awesome a lot of the kids I've met here are. A bunch of us watched Across the Universe the other night and it was so much fun! I did have my first "holy crap, we're here for 5 more months" moment the other day, but it's all good in the hood. There's just so much more to do and learn!
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