Suitehotel Hamburg

... in Winter Medley (yes! We have added holiday songs now!), and 25 days to make the most of this incredible experience.

Oh. And 25 more days of sandwiches for lunch. Yes!

I am so grateful for this experience and all it has taught me. There have been some bumps in the road, but it all has served a greater purpose that maybe I don't know yet. But I do know that I have been changed for the better.

And for those of you know that know the musical, Wicked, I was ...

... knitted goods, amazing food, cheese, jellies and jams, cookies, chocolate, pottery, etc. It was a great place to buy Christmas gifts. We got Glühwein for the first time and ate gingerbread cookies. We took another short nap at the Hostel and watched CNN on the tv and watched the NYSE open in the US. We found an awesome restaurant to got to dinner, the ...

... which gave the church a very amazing effect. Then we found the cool Rathous and market area where they were setting up the Christmas market (Weihnachtsmarkt) for the next day. We walked around so much in the 2 days we stayed in Hamburg, and even the entire week. We went back to the hostel in the afternoon to shower and nap. Then we went back to the city to get some dinner. We ate at a restaurant next to a ...

... aren't going to want to take me home :)

Well, I must get going. Time for bed! I have a long day tomorrow. We have shows Sunday through Tuesday and then leave for Denmark on Wednesday. A week from today I head back to Sweden. I'll have been in 3 countries in one week!

Oh! And say send me some well wishes! I have an second interview with the Minnesota Twins this week! Wish me luck :)

Take care!

Megan

... my camera!

This blog will be short because I'm exhausted. We're baking Christmas cookies tomorrow and then going out to see Hamburg. Thus, I must go to bed!

I hope you all are well :) I'll write a long blog tomorrow about Berlin and my first night in Hamburg. Get ready for lots of pictures!

Love to all,
Megan

... warning signs in Hawaii. We had lunch out here at a stand -- it was a weiner on a plate with a piece of bread. As I've laughed at before, it seems that Americans decided that if you are going to serve a hot dog and a piece of bread, you might as well put the hot dog IN the damn piece of bread and make the entire thing portable. Later in the afternoon we wandered by the Reeperbahn, which is the Red Light district of Hamburg. It's not quite as impressive as Amsterdam ...

... After Paris, we were a bit museum'd out, so we decided to settle for eating and gawping at buildings. Once you leave the city centre, Brussels starts getting pretty charmless. We turned a corner at one stage and found the symbol of the city - the 'Manniken Pis'. This is basically just a small metal statue of a urinating cherub. Around the statue were throngs of tourists taking photos, and around them was shop after shop selling tacky plastic miniatures, towels ...

... figure out this bowl is actually our goulash. We finish the small bowl in a couple of minutes, dissapointed in what we paid for the meal. Cris is just about to put his jacket on to leave when the waitress brings out our entree. It´s a large plate of goulash and potatoes. We were right all along! The food was absolutely fantastic, but it wasn´t over yet. She then brings out a dessert of chocolate mousse and whip cream ...

Making it to Germany was very exciting for me. I had taken three years of German and had never got to use it outside of the classroom. Once there I impressed myself, I got us a cheap hotel room near the train station (this was just an overnight stop on our way to Denmark) and went and found some excellent German food. This is where the trip started to feel better. The way things were going so smoothly now made things feel right.

Hamburg, Germany koolkev88

I visited Christine, the exchange student my family hosted for a few summers in a row, and her family for three weeks. We visited many cities, Hamburg, Heidelburg, Stuttgart, Berlin. It was amazing, and I was only 17. I had my first beer, and never again ...