Consul Dortmund

... pretty tough for everyone, especially yesterday. I have said goodbye to all of my friends. Tara has left for her host family, Santiago has left to his host family, Trevor went to visit his fiance and son before flying home today. I think that Rafael from Chile might still be around but he is travelling around seeing Karneval all weekend in Düsseldorf and Köln.

I went on Thursday ...

... means that the women have the power and the town goes crazy! We can chop off men's ties and shoe laces, infact , we are supposed to do it!) I have bought a costume for the evening. It is a Tirolean ( a cute German dress with an apron. Don't worry, I am sure u will see pics of me in it later...
Friday we are given the official certificates for passing the course. After that I will post some stuff to Australia and then pack my bags before going out to a Salsa club to ...

... from Berlin via Hamburg in 2 weeks, which I may consider doing if it is not too expensive... We'll see.

So, not much has happened since my last email. I went on an excursion to the old Synagogue in Essen. I have a photo of it from my first day in Essen. I called it the Dome Kirche! Whoops. I should have called it the Dome Synagogue! Oh well.

I have bought a couple of tickets for some culture in the coming weeks. I am seeing the ...

... This weekend coming is the free weekend. I am visiting Cori on Friday and staying over in Lauterbach. Then Sat I am going to Rothenburg, one of the prettiest and oldest villages in Germany, and from there to Wurzburg (they are the start of the Romantic strip of Germany). Sunday night I will head back to Essen.

And guess what? In 4 weeks today I am going to be back in the land of Aus!
Funny how time flies... Luv u all,

Sarah

... But I still went. From Essen we had to catch an incredibly cramped bus to Duisburg and then from there we had to wait for over 30 mins for a train to Düsseldorf. Whilst there we walked to the Altstadt, that I have visited previously, took a stroll along the Rhein and had some lunch. Then we found a map and decided to walk to a park where we saw heaps of squirrels (they are so cute) and a playground with some pretty cool equipment. I went on the ...

... created out of the buildings of an old industrial factory. There were different rooms with different kinds of music. it turned out to be a great night, but yet again we were late getting into bed.

Saturday we were supposed to go on an excursion to see Burg Linn (a castle) but unfortunately because of the storm, the trains weren't running.

I will let u know what happened instead in my next email, gotta go and eat some lunch,

Sarah

Hi guys,
Don"t know if u have heard or not, but Germany is in the middle of a hurricane. 150km winds and severe warnings from the government to stay indoors. It was supposed to hit Essen really hard and we were all sent home from uni early and told to stay indoors. I really wanted to go online today to talk to u all like I said I would. Sorry guys!! I"ve just borrowed Tara"s laptop now. Mum, if u read this, send me a text message when u wake up so I can ...

... t even a dip section here in supermarkets. There is only a MASSIVE cheese section with over 120 different types and an equally MASSIVE cold meat section with all of the Wursts. Keep in mind that the Germans eat both of these things twice a day on bread rolls, breakfast and dinner are often the same ingredients... It was a great dinner and thoroughly enjoyed by all.
Tuesday I went to school, did some grocery shopping, did my ...

... We discussed the WiWi party that was on that night. (WiWi stands for Wirtschaft wissenschaft, in other words business studies, a faculty at uni) I went back to my room and wrote out all of my Backbeat lines, cleaned up a bit and then dressed up to go out to the party.
The party was in a big building at the uni and was great. Entrance was 4€ ($8), and the best thing was that it was sponsored by Southern Comfort, one of my favourite drinks! There were many different kinds of ...

... know why my father in law was so determined to give me a pullover, at all costs. I felt a little like a refugee, but it was somehow funny. As for Dortmund: it was snowing and snow pretties up anything, even Dortmund, so that's why I didn't shun it to eternity.