Best Western Hotel Stadtpalais Braunschweig

... the Hauptbahnhof. We took the train to Wolfsburg to catch the ICE to Berlin. The trains can travel 125 mph on conventional tracks and 174 mph on high-speed tracks, it was like riding in an airplane it was so fast!! The ride to Berlin only took 1 hour! Then we had to find our Hostel which took a while since it was a 10 minute walk from the Ostbahnhof train station in Berlin.

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.

... jumping buildings and crazy obstacles) had to run over 15 cars traveling at around 10-15 mph in 1 minute. He did this in front of the Braunschweig Hbf and it was so cool, you could tell he was getting tired but he completed it. Another woman separated 30 eggs from the yoke without breaking them using only chopsticks in 3 minutes. The bet for Braunschweig was that the city had to get 1,000 people dressed in zombie outfits to dance to the MJ song Thriller at the Schloss Platz. By ...

... yet. They think it is still for vampires and gross skin conditions. There was a live band for a while which was good but a bunch of us left after that to catch the bus. Then a bunch of us stopped by the Schloss to get Doeners at Beyti which were amazing.
A Doener is a sandwhich type food with lamb or chicken in a pita topped with different types of slaw, and vegetables and 4 types of sauce.

... 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!!

Fun trip to VW plant in Wolfsburg. We took the Deutschen Bahn at the Hauptbahnhof for free since we are students. It was a short trip, only 25 minutes to the plant which is next to a canal for transportation purposes. We got a fantastic tour of the plant in cool cars that made it feel like an amusement park ride.

Our tour guide was from Nottingham which was funny. We got to see the entire ...

... There are over 50 different ingredients that have not changed from the original recipe that was invented way back when by a woodsman. The lower levels smelled like licorice that was so strong, it was amazing! There were 10,000 liter containers that hold the maturing Jager base (12 months!) then it gets mixed with everything else.

Then we walked to the ...

... silence inside your gray computer mass...

Where a Thai monk might reach that cherished point with Lord Vipassana at his side, I feel I have reached a strange mental level probably not unlike Lord Vipassana`s gift, after nearly a month of living it rough...mental retreats to the dustier
corners of my Farang mind, a different way of creating silence....

I feel at a point where I can see ...

Hello to everybody, since Friday I am starting to get myself used to Tajikistan. I have finished my first thesis and after having spend a beautiful weekend in Berlin I will now start to sort everything out for the traineeship. Vaccinations and Visa are obtained ...