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Es ist seltsam, wie schnell die Zeit vergeht.. Wie oft habe ich euch versprochen zu schreiben, anzurufen oder einen blog zu verfassen. Ich denke oft an euch und es ist schön zu wissen, dass es euch genauso geht. <br><br>Schon seit fast einem halben Jahr lebe, wohne und atme ich diesen wundervollen ...

... and celebrating Halloween! Among our activities were going to an amazingly fun and elaborate Halloween Disco for the fifth through seventh graders at my school, going to a going-away party for my roommate Kirsten's best friend, going out on Halloween night bedecked as skeletons and gangstas (a likely pair), searching through flea markets, visiting the zoo, and randomly coming upon Moby (yes, Moby) playing house music at a random techno bar. Jeff ...

... this about one of my favourite cities so we continued to show them around the city and told them all of the interesting facts we could remember from our walking tour. <br>The next day we travelled to Milan, then to Briggs, then Basel, then up to Freiburg, Germany. We got lost trying to find the hostel in the dark so it took us about an hour of walking to find it. It was a cool hostel though- huge common area and nice kitchen and beds that were not bunkbeds ...

... dated from the 17 hundreds. The place has been passed down through her family for generations and is more steeped in history than any house I've ever been in. To add to the mystery, half of the house is shut off, falling into disrepair. We were able to peak into that side and saw something resembling the West Wing from Beauty and the Beast. Antiquated wall paper peeled from the walls, mold and fungus bloomed in circular patterns over everything, stuffed ...

This is not a great adventure, more a welcome back.<br><br>It is great to be back in Villiprott to visit our old friends since the 70ies. Now I have been staying with them for two weeks and we have done a lot of different things. This part of Germany have many interesting places to visit, both nature and culture.<br>

... angebracht **schien. Ab** das war wohl nur ein G**ücht.<br><br>D** eigentliche Höhepunkt für mein Empfinden war ein Vortrag von Patrick Thomas, d** uns **zählte mit welchen Plastikprodukten ein momentan nicht ganz so **folgreich** Geschäftsb**eich in Zukunft uns** all** Brötchen v**dienen möchte. Wirklich sehr beeindruckend, nicht nur die Produkte, sond**n d** ganze Vortrag, die Aufmachung d** Präsentation mit integri**ten Filmen, die Art des Vortragens ...

... n*****ns. Possibly ride couple shifts for the messengers *nd collecting some equipment such *s old SLR-c*mer*, m*rkers *nd p*per for the zine I thought of st*rting to put up. It's som much e*sier for me to m*rk up experiences on p*per when I c*n *lso cre*te other forms of text *nd combine pictures. T*ke some good ide*s, *nd do send me some letters in return if you *re doing *ny sort of trip self-powered or somehow self sufficiently, which I *m *lso trying to push ...

... ago discussing American culture, and most aspects of our culture discussed in the articles remain true to this day. A few basic aspects of German culture; very reserved people, do not like uncertainty, pessimistic, extremely effective workers, teamwork is highly valued, and they regard safety and security very highly. The vast majority of these traits stem from Germany's very turbulent and violent past. Hundreds of wars occurred on German soil in Roman, and Medieval times ...

... tell her what I wanted because I didn't know the German word for aspirin, I just pointed to my head. She gave me a strange look at first and then said, "YA". I said, "YA" because I was excited that she said it and I thought we had an "understanding". Well, we didn't. She went behind the counter and came back with a box of Alka Seltzer. I paid for it and left only because I didn't want to be rude. The next ...

... streets through the city. The side streets have little traffic and there are no cars parked in the streets. There are still a lot of bikes and bicyclist still have the right of way over pedestrians but that is to be expected especially when they have their own bike path and your walking right in the middle of it! On our trek to the hotel (again with 100 lbs. of luggage and my 18 lb. backpack) we witnessed some very interesting things. We got our first glimpse of the German police and ...