Hello everyone! Let me just say this week is only half way over and I've travelled more in these past three days then I have in my life! It all started out with this weekend. We had originally planned on going to Heidelburg on Saturday and then Frankfurt on sunday, but because of some complications we weren't able to go to Heidelburg. But it was just a sunday morning and I had figured we wouldnt go to Frankfurt, but then my Ukrainian friend up and said hey lets go to Frankfurt for the day, so I called up a couple more people and we caught the train to Frankfurt for free since we have student passes that allows us to travel on any public transportation in the state of Hessen for free. We didnt stay long, but it was such an amazing city! It is the main hub for alot of the Banks not only in Germany but some in the EU as well. It's the only city with a skyline filled with skyscrapers and looked alot like a smaller version of Chicago. After about a 3 hour walk around the city, we hopped back on the train for home, but little did I know that there was more travelling this week then I had thought. Now Monday came around, and when we got to class our teacher had suggested that we learn today's lesson, and then we will go out for breakfast which I was beyond excited about! While we were eating someone had suggested that they really wanted to see the teachers home town which is a little village right outside the city of Bonn and she agreed that that would be alot of fun, and then one of us goes "So lets do it!" and we all slowly agreed we should and she asks when and we all go "Tomorrow!" and she was besides herself trying to contemplate this potential trip, but after a couple emails and some green lights she rented two cars for all 10 of us to pack into and we were Bonn bound the next day. The city of Bonn is such a beautiful city and if i were to ever live in Germany in my upcoming years, I would like to live in Bonn. It's big but not to big and it also has literally 8 or 9 cities not 60 min away from it. Cologne is probably only a 30 min train ride away. She took us first to a German Geschichte (History) Museum which was very interesting, but more than half of the plaques with information were in german. I could understand some of what it was saying, but there were plenty to just see and understand instead of read. After the museum she took us downtown which is the most beautiful Innenstadt i've seen in Germany, and since it was about lunch time by then we of course went to get some Brats and Brotchen! But just before I was satisfied with just a Brat she took us to a frozen yogurt place where you pour your own frozen yogurt, and then they have tons of toppings to put on it. I ended up getting a layer of vanilla, a layer of double chocolate, strawberries on top, and chocolate chips. (Picture on Facebook) It was mind melting or should i say...freezing.. and i know what youre all saying after that clever turn in this blog. Something like this? Then after our inner city excursion she took us all the way to her hometown to her house to meet her family which when we got there we normally are a very talkative bunch, but when we got there none of us really talked that much, but after some pieces of cake that her mom made, and some introductions, we all headed out to a local restaurant where we filled up one last time and headed home. Now today was our last language class day, and also we will be getting our next schedule of classes for the next 9 weeks I'm in school, which I am going to right now so I hope all of you have a splendid Morning and afternoon, and I will be going to Berlin for 4 days this weekend so you can bet there will be stories and pictures coming in the near future!
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