Hotel Fernblick Bad Harzburg

... made homemade cranberry sauce which had an amazing zing to it. We had 3, 3.4kg turkies for about 14 people. Bread, stuffing, mashed potatoes, beans, corn, carrots, pickles, squash. Alvira made oreo cakes, Pam, Wendy and I made an apple crisp, Shawn bought a frozen apple pie and Manny brought a fruit salad for dessert with ice cream. Pam and I had to leave at the end to head ...

We headed to the Hamburg Hauptbahnhof to get tickets back to Braunshweig. We stopped in Hannover for 1 hour and we quickly walked through some of the shopping section. We were tired when we finally arrived so we hung out in my room for a while just relaxing. We hung out with all of the URI students in Weststadt and it was a lot of fun.

... Peas, Robbie Williams, Lady Gaga, a famous violinist, the youngest F1 champion who drove his car inside the hall and did a few doughnuts, John Cusack, and a famous director. The first contestant was a physics major and he could read a sentence that was repeated over and over on a rolling piece of paper spinning very fast (100 km/h I think?). He got 2 ot of the 3 sentences correct. Another guy used a backhoe to shoot baskets!! He was amazing. A trained guy in the sport of ...

... costume stores in Germany since Halloween isn't really a big event here.

Wendy and I also explored for the Staples on the Ring but it was a disappointment, we were hoping it would look exactly like it does at home. Oh well.

When I got back I went to the Michaelishof area for Denise's handball game with Soth and Shawn. Denise is Soth's German International Partnering Projekt (IPP ...

... some fun. We wrote our names down on index cards and then we were put on random teams for 15 mintue games. All the players on each winning team got a shinny ribbon and whoever collected the most ribbons won a prize. We didn't realize that the tournament lasted from 8:30pm -6am!!! So we left around 11. It was a lot of fun, but some of the Germans were very intense and I had no idea what they were telling me to do sometimes!

... there was a short breakfast and then Wendy and I went to go pick up our Visa's. We are now officially allowed to be in Germany for 1 year! We hung around Friday night and baked wurst in onions, cauliflower and peppers and also made mashed potatoes, it was amazing!!

Dorf= Village
We traveled to Wolfbrittel today on the 420 bus, which is an adorable little village (Dorf) right outside of Braunschweig! Went to the Jägermeister plant they have there. It was a fantastic tour! They are so efficient, well organized and thorough with the entire process. There are so many quality checkpoints from the ingredients and then during the ...

... and everything!

The fish was smoked and soo good, but we had to pick out a lot of the bones but it was excellent. We ate it on German bread with butter and of course beer. They had a dog and a huge pig in their back yard which was in the middle of the woods. Then they showed us where they store the fish and chop them up, eww! It was a pretty decent day all around.

Went to Salzgitter today which is about 20 minutes southwest of Braunschweig by bus. We went sort of early in the morning to get there. We listened to a company member talk about what the plant does and how the process works. Then we saw a 10 minute film about his explanation that was pretty cool. What type of steel they produce, what materials they use, what forms they produce and who they sell to (countries).

Then we got to put on cool ...

... TU)Teres (one of our Sprachkurs teachers) took us to top of renovated building that is the tallest in the city to see the view. It was a fantastic view even though it was slightly hazy!!

Then a bunch of us walked to the Gauβ-IT center and went on internet!!

Took bahn later to get dinner, Turkische pizza mmm yummy!!