Hotel Rosenau Bad Harzburg

... the Hauptbahnhof. We took the train to Wolfsburg to catch the ICE to Berlin. The trains can travel 125 mph on conventional tracks and 174 mph on high-speed tracks, it was like riding in an airplane it was so fast!! The ride to Berlin only took 1 hour! Then we had to find our Hostel which took a while since it was a 10 minute walk from the Ostbahnhof train station in Berlin.

We headed to the Hamburg Hauptbahnhof to get tickets back to Braunshweig. We stopped in Hannover for 1 hour and we quickly walked through some of the shopping section. We were tired when we finally arrived so we hung out in my room for a while just relaxing. We hung out with all of the URI students in Weststadt and it was a lot of fun.

... jumping buildings and crazy obstacles) had to run over 15 cars traveling at around 10-15 mph in 1 minute. He did this in front of the Braunschweig Hbf and it was so cool, you could tell he was getting tired but he completed it. Another woman separated 30 eggs from the yoke without breaking them using only chopsticks in 3 minutes. The bet for Braunschweig was that the city had to get 1,000 people dressed in zombie outfits to dance to the MJ song Thriller at the Schloss Platz. By ...

... It was pretty intense, especially since the crazy Mob-like Braunschweig fans were singing songs the whole time. Then we got ready for the Halloween party at Shunter. It takes forever to get there but eventually we did. The party was slow and not really Halloween-like since all the Germans just put on face paint to look scary and haven’t really gotten into the interesting/funny ...

It was a beautiful day outside so Wendy and I decided to take a walk in the Nature conservatory area on the edge of the city. It took a long time to get there (40 minutes) but we walked around for about 2 hours and saw some beautiful landscape. It was nice to get away from the city and enjoy the Fall colors.

That night there was a volleyball event at the Sports-zentrum. Soth, Steve, Shawn, Drew and I went to just ...

Today we graduated from Summer School yaay! We had a mini ceremony where we received our papers saying the hours we completed and our grades. The teachers each gave a small speech but at least it was fairly short. I passed and got 6 credits towards my German major ...

... There are over 50 different ingredients that have not changed from the original recipe that was invented way back when by a woodsman. The lower levels smelled like licorice that was so strong, it was amazing! There were 10,000 liter containers that hold the maturing Jager base (12 months!) then it gets mixed with everything else.

Then we walked to the ...

After we got back to Braunschweig from Salzgitter we had a trip through the woods to a Fischhaus. Theres (one of our teachers) has a friend who owns a "fish farm" and was cooking us dinner. We took the bus from the theater to this woodsy area near the fast train and took a 30 min walk to the fish house, which was beautiful. It felt just like the woods in PA, deer like ...

... hats with pull-down glasses and a special blue paper to look at the bright hot metal with. Then we toured the plant which was enormous!! They produce enough gas to basically fuel their entire process on site. There was no steel actually being produced that day but we got to see it being smelted down which was really neat to see. It was so hot in there and there was a lot of dust which was hard for me to deal with sometimes. The huge slabs and ...

Got up around 10, showered, got coffee and croissant at Shell station next to my dorm hehe!!
Met Wendy and went to Park by the river on our way to the campus, very pretty! Surprisingly everything is very clean here and things are extremely well maintianed.

Walked to S-bahn and went to orientation of Sommer/Sprachkurs at the Technical ...