So this past weekend was a lot of fun. On Wednesday night Annie's host family invited me over for dinner, which was so nice of them!!! I met their 3 out of 4 sons and we all hung out. Lucus ( the eldest) showed us his own little bar he has in the garden. It was so cool, he gave us free drinks and we met some of his friends. They are really nice and have a lovely house. We had a lovely time speaking German and eating all the delicious German food. Annie's host mom then drove us to Schwaebisch Gmuend and we met some of the others and we went bar hopping. I only had one coffee that night, at the last place.
We had a four-day weekend so it was a good opportunity to explore the state of Baden-Württemberg. Thursday I just stayed in and relaxed a bit-- and went to the movies with Kai, Natalie and some of Natalie's friends. We saw Robin Hood (auf Deutsch). We then hung out at Natalie's house.
Friday I spent the whole day in bed because I felt so ill-- I still have a cold and a cough.
Saturday I went to Ulm (close to Bavaria) on the train with one of the Professors from GVSU and 2 other American students- Cassie and Dana. We all had a lovely day and lady in charge of the international students at PHSG showed us around. We climbed the steps of the Muenster (one of the tallest cathedrals in the world!!) It was lovely and I climbed over 700 stairs that day!! Just Professor Smith and I made it to the top... the others are afraid of heights.
We then ate a restaurant in the old part of Ulm-- lovely food! We then did a bit of shopping-- I bought two tablemats for 50 cents!! They say "Guten Appetit" so I thought they would be really cute for my apartment! I have glasses to match them so that will be a nice little memoir of Germany!! :-D
Sunday-- Natalie, Kai and Tami (Natalie's friend) and I all went to Natalie's home town-- Sigmaringen. It took us about 2 hours to get there by car, but we all had fun riding in Tami's yellow mini! Natalie showed us around the castle where she works at during the holidays. It was soooo lovely and old--- Napolean even had something to do with it!! We also saw the biggest collection of weapons in Europe!! The coolest part was seeing the real armour the KNIGHTS wore!! :-D We then walked around the little town of Sigmaringen and then drove up the side of the Donau River and looked at the Felsen. We then drove to another castle-- not as pretty as the other one, but it had some gorgeous views!!
Then Monday was back to school--- and we went out of a drink after our classes... I had a Becks Lime-- quite tasty-- even though I am not big on beer-- it doesn't taste like beer at all!
Tuesday-- I booked a trip to England via BUS. This should be interesting!! I leave tomorrow!!
Bis bald!! (until soon!)
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