Hotel Ambiente Restaurant Monda Dortmund

Like tradition we started also this morning with a 'short' walk again with the same reason- to find a good spot for hh...few hours and there we were...Michendorf Tankenstelle. Breakfast, thumbs up and we were ready to hit the road again. An elderly lady picked us up and we 'flied'...yes flied as there r no limits on german Autobahns and the speed got occasionally up to 200km/h...nice...the first destination is running closer.. Killing time is one of the things we learned how ...

... way.

Annabel isn't coming to Belgium anymore and the tour ended up being booked out. So now I am sitting in an internet cafe in Essen trying to work out what to do for the day. I have been looking on a website to see if I can find a castle to visit. I may have found one too! It's not too far away which is good cos it means I can get back reasonably easily.

So this week has ...

... that I am intelligent and I have learnt something!!!

However I am so glad that I was put in the bottom class because we got the best teacher by far and also... a whole heap of really fun people. I may not have had as much fun if I was with the brainy kids if u get my drift.

I have recovered from being ill on the weekend. I am telling u, sleeep is fantastic but so is an immune system builder called astralagus. It's a natural herby thing in tablet form ...

Hello everyone in the warm country back home.

It is now officially Winter. Yesterday the highest temperature was -3 and today on the way to Uni it snowed! Only slightly, but never the less, there was snow. This weekend it is supposed to snow quite a lot. I am looking forward to it. I will be in Lauterbach, Wurzburg and Rothenburg, and all will look so romantic covered in white. My teacher warned me that if the snow persists, I will have to ...

... city with Rafael and bought a blank CD to put all of my pics on to bring home. Jan 22nd is also a really important day in Germany for shopping. All of the shops have massive sales on all their winter range starting from then. I went to a really popular German fashion shop called H & M. I found a cute cardigan there that would be perfect for my character in Backbeat, but I don't know if I would wear it otherwise... I'll post a pic of it ...

So I believe I left u wondering what I was going to do on Saturday after my dreams of seeing a German castle had been completely blown out of the water.
The tutors decided that we would have the excursion to Düsseldorf instead, which is where I have already been twice. I wished that I had just stayed in bed I was SO tired. In the last 2 nights I had had a total of 8 hours sleep ...

... singing. I would buy a copy here if it wasn't so expensive, but I can't justify spending 30 euro $60 AUD on one DVD.

In the afternoon we met Herr Bayer, our politics and Berlin teacher and looked at some video footage from the reunification time in Berlin.

After class I went to the Hauptbahnhof for a couple of reasons, 1) that I wanted to purchase my train ticket to Fulda for the following weekend so that I can visit Cori and ...

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 ...

... because the World Cup mascot was walking around, so we got our picture with him. Dortmund is mainly known as a huge industrial (mainly steel) area. Iona told me that there was a massive steel mill there but they shipped the whole thing to China. We made our way to the hotel where they had the interviews. The girls would have to help people find their seats at the game. The only pre requisite for the job was that they had to speak English. So ...