Erfurt Airport Hotel

... Hauspost zirkuliert, habe ich die nette Dame persönlich besucht und mein Exemplar sichergestellt. Was man hat, hat man.
Spannend bleibt die Frage, ob ein gültiger Vertrag ab Januar auch zu Überweisungen führt - wir werden sehen..

Mein Reisepass, mit den notwendigen Visa vollgeklebt, ist ebenfalls heute von der Visaagentur zurückgekommen. Auch wenn eine zu kurze Visadauer für China bedeutet, dass ich es vor ...

... and preached. Other than that there was not much to do there so I just relaxed. Despite the fact that it is small, the streets are only half named and it feels like you are walking in circles sometimes. Very few people speak English in these Eastern regions.

... see in Spain - very attractive. I discovered a real oddity here, a DDR Geschichtsmuseum (museum of the old East Germany). From what I can make out, the whole DDR thing is now all treated as a bit of a bad joke, and not to be taken too seriously. That's a good way of looking at it, in my view. The museum itself, closed, was housed in a drab grey building, with heavy iron railings on the windows. A bit like the ex-state really. In the town centre was another oddity, a war ...

... t get the results back until July, but we are hoping they did well. The Class of ’08 had their graduation ceremony yesterday which was the first ever graduation of the school. We used a lot of the USA traditions, with the cap and gowns and other things, which they do not do here in Germany. The sharing and mixing of cultures keeps us on our toes all the time! In the evening we had a party (and of course were able to have some beer with ...

... selling very very very pricey teddy bears!!!!!!. They also have a shop where original beer steins -worth a lot of money $$$$ are made and sold ( I think that the company might have a deal where they bring us in and get something back- seriously most budget backpackers aren't going to be spending that in one day!) They are these massive jugs with lids made of porcelain and have exquisite porcelain detail on them in ...

... much… being here by myself is kind of depressing. It’s so much better to have someone to hang out and chat with.

A couple of weeks ago I had one of my in-class observations where the director watched me teach. This was a little intimidating but I did fine and the kids were really well behaved. We are coming up to the deadline with our IB labs too. The students are working like crazy to get everything done in ...

... questions, but really understood the stuff. It’s so different to try to teach these little ones versus the high schoolers! The lower school teachers said that the students kept asking if I was coming back, calling me things like 'the man,’ ‘the expert,’ and ‘the moon teacher.’ I think I’ll stick to the big kids though, at least until the next big astronomy event!

Friday afternoon my friend Scott from ...

... delicious food and fun to hang out and laugh and have a good time away from the school. I ate a few pieces of pie and now that I’m home, I wish I could be in Tennessee for the day. Thanksgiving food is great, but I certainly miss seeing the family on this special holiday.

Anyway wishing you all a happy thanksgiving from Weimar. Send me a note about how things are going for you when you get a chance.

Abrazos,

Rob(ert) (o)

... you’ll realize that some products don’t really exist. For instance, they don’t have chocolate chips, their vanilla extract is alcoholic, and they don’t have shortening… Haha. What an adventure. Maybe I should have learned how to do this in the states first!

Anyway as I was mixing the stuff for cookies, Aaron and Martin were hanging out and they were intrigued. They were under the impression that American cookies were ...

... and we did have to pay...only a small amount though. We headed south on route 5 not really knowing where we were going although there was a general plan that we go to Strasburg via Karlsruhe but we drove around that town in search of Baden Baden instead. We found it, entered it, but made a wrong turn against my navigator's wishes and ended up in a long tunnel that went under the city and out the other side. A brilliant piece of engineering but ...