Well, it’s been a long time since I’ve last updated and a lot has hap pened since then. Sorry about the lack of updates. I’ve mainly been la zy. My last post was on my birthday over a month ago. For shame!
When I last posted, Freiburg was in a state of constant snowing. Snow , snow, snow. Tons of it. It never really stuck much, because each day it would get above freezing and the accumulation from the previous da y would melt. Just two weeks ago it was regularly below freezing. But now the sun (and my shorts) have won! At this moment it’s 66 degrees a nd sunny.
I finally got my bike completely working again today… Last year I bou ght myself a bike and left it at Nadja’s place. The bike has a spoke-l ock to which I have no key, so I never touched it. Someone, however, p ushed in the spoke lock, meaning I could ride my own bike. I finally g ot around to hammering off the spoke lock (it was welded on) a couple weeks ago. And today I finally pumped the tires up to 100%. Bikes are so much faster than busses. Yay.
Ok, I started typing this yesterday – now it’s today. In the meantime my chain broke. I’m not joking.
So what I have been up to? Lots, I suppose, or maybe not. My parents came and visited from the 6th to the 12th. I was going to go pick them up from the train station in Basel with Nadja, but I forgot my passpo rt, so I was not able to go to Basel, since Basel is in Switzerland, w hich is not a part of the EU. So I sent Nadja on ahead down to Basel a nd she picked up my parents, and I got on the train with them one stop above Basel. The next day we went to the famed Bavarian city of Munic h and met Nadja’s family (that’s where they live). On the day after th at, we went to the castle Neuschwanstein, which is a famous German cas tle (there are certainly pictures below). On the day after that, we to ok a tour of the Munich inner-city and the BMW museum. Then we went ba ck to Freiburg. In Freiburg we went up to Titisee, which is a kinda-to uristy area filled with Coocooclocks. And on the next day we did every thing in Freiburg that had to do with climbing up to the top of stuff. Then the next day was already time for my parents to go home. I hope they had enough fun.
Note: COME VISIT ME! Housing costs are no excuse. In my building, you can get guest housing for 10 Euros ($13) per person per night. Cheape r for students (around US $10). As of July 16th, I am on vacation (kin da – don’t plan to close to that, since I may actually still have a co uple tests at that point). Also, airplane ticket prices have dropped a lot too.
Talking about being free as of July 16th, I guess I’ll talk a bit abo ut university-related stuff. My language course is coming to a close. There are now 4 days of classes left (Monday to Thursday) and one test left (a week from Tuesday). Glad it’s going to be over. This will mea n I will have completed around 630 hours of formal German training (as well as many hours of talking German outside class). That’s a lot of training. That will also complete my German major. So I will be gettin g a second diploma this time with a German major (and maybe I’ll remem ber to put in my Business minor).
My semester starts on April 11th. I’ve picked out my course schedule. Algebra II, Analysis II, and Number Theory. Each class has 4 hours of lecture and 2 hours of exercises per week. Hopefully UConn gives me a t least 4 credits for each class (1 hour per week is one credit – but silly UConn gave me just 3 credits for my Differential Geometry class) . It looks possible that I’ll have Friday free. I don’t know yet, sinc e the exercise session times have yet to be published.
So I’m sure you’re bored with reading all my comments and you just wa nt to see pictures. Ok, here they are.
Here we are in a fine Bavarian Beer Basement:
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/P3/Beer1.JPG
Again:
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/P3/Beer2.JPG
Here are a couple shots over Munich:
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/P3/MunichOverview.JPG
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/P3/MunichTower.JPG
And here’s a BMW M1:
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And us in front of a huge BMW motor:
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/P3/WeLoveBMW.JPG
Here’s the car that Angie loaned us for free (!!!):
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/P3/Car.JPG
And me driving down the autobahn:
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/P3/CarAutobahn.JPG
And here’s the car that Nadja’s father loaned us for free with a cast le in the background:
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/P3/NeuSSWithCar.JPG
Here’s a cool picture of the castle:
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(Note: that’s actually a picture of a picture. Turned out pretty well , huh?)
Here’s the castle again:
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Some TV Cameraman videotaped me for wearing shorts. We took pictures of him:
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/P3/CameraMan.JPG
Here’s Mom in front of Nadja’s family’s apartment building:
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/P3/MomBuilding.JPG
Here’s some German industry:
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/P3/Industry.JPG
Back in Freiburg, we have a nice no-pooping sign:
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/P3/NoPooping.JPG
And here’s a view from inside the tower in a church:
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/P3/Muenster.JPG
And here I am walking down the steps:
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/P3/GoingDown.JPG
Here’s Freiburg from above:
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/P3/FreiburgBig.JPG
And me running around on a kid’s thing:
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/P3/ExerciseClass.JPG
Dad and I are eating Wurst. Yum.
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/P3/TheWurst.JPG
Mom and I have ice cream:
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/P3/IceCream.JPG
And we are in the ice:
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/P3/HikingUp.JPG
Here are Nadja’s rabbits (Rhonja is the white one, Merlin is black):
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/P3/Bunny.JPG
And I’m pouring beer:
http://www.ftper.com/Germany/P3/BeerTime.JPG
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