http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Kansas/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Kansas en-us Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:26:20 UTC Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:26:20 UTC It's back to the grindstone. I've finally gotten my pictures uploaded and will post some this weekend. I will also put them all on kodakgallery so just let me know if you'd like to see all of them and I'll email you the link. I'll try to remember what all happened since I last wrote. We spent a couple days in London doing prairie dog tours. You know the ones where you pop up out of the t http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Kansas/Lawrence/blog-82868.html I've been having computer problems so I haven't updated this in several days. I'm writing this from an internet cafe in London. We're both exhausted as we only slept a few hours last night and spent the day in airports. We were scheduled to fly from Berlin to London last night Saturday but our flight was cancelled. That worked out really well because we got to go to the going away party with http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Kensington/blog-81772.html Okay gotta tell you I'm not so sure about these Germans. We've been trying to get internet and a phone hooked up in our apartment for a week. I've gone into the office every day to see if someone can make it work. We have the modem and phone and everything but the phone does not have a dial tone. We decided to forget about it. The people working in the office have been very difficult. http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Germany/District-of-Berlin/Berlin/blog-80764.html I was able to get some photos uploaded this afternoon but I'll have to upload the rest later. So I've posted some photos from Eger Hungary Slovakia and Krakow Poland.Last week's classes focused on negotiation whereas this week's focus on mediation. We have a fact pattern that we're working with all week. We're broken up into groups of 7 or 8 and we each get an opportunity each day to pla http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Germany/District-of-Berlin/Berlin/blog-80616.html We've had a great last few days. On Friday night we attended a reception at the law firm Hogan Hartson in Potsdamer Platz. As we stepped off the elevator there were waiters with juice and wine greeting us. It couldn't have been more different than reception we attended earlier in the week. They were gracious hosts and we visited with several of the attorneys throughout the evening. The sen http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Germany/District-of-Berlin/Berlin/blog-80299.html It's Friday finallyOn Wednesday night we had a reception at the law firm WilmerHale here in town. It was obvious that they weren't enthusiastic about us stopping by because we were told that they usually have great pastries and drinks instead they served pretzels and gummy bears. We all headed to dinner afterward at an Indian Restaurant.Which reminds me of something the Germans have a d http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Germany/District-of-Berlin/Berlin/blog-79639.html This is our third day of classes and the coldest day in Germany so far It's actually a little chilly outside. Classes are getting a little better. We do roleplaying exercises every day the American students are paired with international students and the scenarios get a little more complicated each time. We've been working on negotiation this week and next week we will focus on mediation.On http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Germany/District-of-Berlin/Berlin/blog-79183.html It's been a long time which means that this entry will be a long oneI've been trying to make notes as we've traveled so I'll try to retrace our steps. I'll go backward...Today was our first day of classes. The program is hosted by Humbolt University home to 29 nobel prize winners. Right now I am looking out the window at a statue of Freidrich II the Great he's the man responsible for muc http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Germany/District-of-Berlin/Berlin/blog-78741.html Sorry the posts have been so short and so sporadic. We haven't had much internet access. We're in Krakow today and will fly to Berlin tomorrow. Once we get to Berlin I should have a few minutes to update you on everything specifically our stay in the High Tatras in Slovakia. I have tons of pictures and plan to post some tomorrow. Eastern Europe welcomed us with open arms but the past few da http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Poland/Lesser-Poland/Krakow/blog-78081.html We're in Eger for a second day not by choice. We should have taken the 722 am train to Kosice Slovakia but we thought we could get there by bus later in the day. After much pantomiming no english here we discovered that there were no buses going to Kosice today. So we tracked down a nice hotel just outside of Eger and have been lounging by the pool reading our assignments for next week http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Hungary/Eger/blog-77212.html We walked and walked and walked today. Saw the castle and Matthias Church which was turned into an Ottoman mosque in the 1500s until about 1688 when the Hapsburgs took the city. Interesting story about Buda there is a hill called Gellert Hill named after a bishop who attempted to convert the pagan Magyars to Christianity in the 11th Century. Apparently the Magyars weren't having any of it so http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Hungary/Budapest/blog-76781.html Wow What a welcome wersquove received in Eastern Europe. A field of sunflowers waved to us as we landed in Prague and the BlackEyed Peas welcomed us to Budapest well not literally but they were the first thing we heard on the radio. Neither of us slept on the long flight but we did both doze during the short flights from London to Prague and Prague to Budapest. When we finally arrive http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Hungary/Budapest/blog-76538.html Getting ready to head to Eastern Europe to travel and study. My friend Linda and I head to Budapest on July 21st and will wind our way through Hungary Slovakia and Poland. We'll end up in Berlin where we will study for two weeks. After the final we'll head to London for a few days.I'm worried that my luck will follow me. My car was broken into two weeks ago. Days later I was effectively evicte http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Kansas/Lawrence/blog-73553.html