http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Neeko215/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Neeko215 en-us Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:59:05 BST Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:59:05 BST After Copenhangen we came back to start classes off again. Our modern German history teacher thought it would be a great idea to have presentations and final papers due the day we got back from our excursion so I was busy in my cafe working on those. Over the next couple days I was forced by my German teacher to go to the doctors and I ended up missing a couple classes as I needed meds. The doc http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-270055.html My trip to Copenhagen was alot more successful than my Hamburg trip mostly by this time my sorethroat was over and now all I had was sa bad cough. We took a boat tour around the city which was very interesting unlike the Hamburg trip. We saw the owner of Chelsea's football club London's soccer team yaht that was anchored there. After the boat tour we went to where they had the changing of the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Copenhagen/blog-269967.html My trip to Hamburg was a dangerous one... Before I was finally able to obtain the necessary fingerprints for the DHS. However during this time I was sick... struck down by an illness that left me exhausted. I felt fine during the train ride to hamburg but once arriving to the youth hostel on the mounth with only stairs I was hit with a sore thorat. During the next couple days I was unable to sp http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/District-of-Hamburg/Hamburg/blog-264395.html More Friends arrived the past week and a half. Rich and Brian came in last last friday. I had an excursion with the program to Sachsenhausen one of the first concentration camps It housed mostly political prisoners and Nazis when the Soviets took control. However ruins of the ovens were still there. It was pretty intense. Rich was suppose to call once he had landed and we would discuss where we http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/District-of-Berlin/Berlin/blog-259372.html Ever since I got back from S. Germany and began going back to classes I have been swamped with visiting friends and this next coming week is no exception A couple weeks ago my German teacher Dr. Gaddy and her son came to visit. I was coming down the stairs after class and all of a sudden she was right in front of me What a shock I was so surprised and later some of us went down to the Mensa http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/District-of-Berlin/Berlin/blog-255540.html Herbie and I arrived in Munich and quickly found out hostel being that is was near the train station. We checked in and found out the hostel's policy was there was only one key and if you were in the room you had to open the door for others but if you were the last one out you had the leave the key downstairs... weird and slightly inconvienent for everyone. We learned that there was a beer like http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Munich/blog-251690.html After Herbie and I dropped Joelle off we got tickets to Salzburg and got on a train. We got there and needed to find a hostel so we found an internet cafe and booked the only one that was listed on hostelworld.com which was a little strange. We walked about 2 miles with our stuff and saw some of the city at night. We got to the hostel and put our stuff away and found that some asian guys did laun http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-251411.html Bratislava... It was here that I decided I needed to find a Slovakian wife. Why Well let me tell you. We got into Bratislava and walked down the historical district towards our hostel. It was quite nice and we took out some Slovakian krowns which ended up being 45 and that lasted us the entire trip We got to the hostel and messed around a bit on the computer and played some foosball. We went ou http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-251408.html We got into Vienna by the Czech bus which is amazing because it was cheap comfortable and we got free magazines and coffee We got in and was welcomed by riot police outside the Ubahn there was a demostration about Kosovo and there are alot of Serbs there. We walked to the hostel and ran into Dave from UF Randomly walking down the same street... small world. Got to the hostel and decided http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna-State/Vienna/blog-251404.html Went to Praha for a couple days. The night before we went to Stammtisch and went back to the apartments kinda late. We took a cab but the driver was really cool and liked how we knew German and was living there so he didnt charge us the full price and refused to take tip. He was awesome. I did a quick pack and went to bed. Woke up 3 12hrs later to make it to the train station. We got on the train http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/North/Prague/blog-250097.html Wednesday night I met the class to see Mrzmelodie which was good and then we all walked over to a bar and had a couple of drinks. So this week as my birthday I went with some people to the Opera where we saw Die Zauberflte or the magic flute. It was pretty good and later came back and had my bday celebration with the friends. They got me a cake a bottle of bourbon pommes with mayo and a Kla http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/District-of-Berlin/Berlin/blog-247566.html This past week was filled with alot of different events. Monday I went with the group to the Bundeskanzleramt which is where the prime minister Merkel works. We were told not many people can tour the building so we were lucky enough to get in. Thursday we went to Stammtisch but with a series of unfortunate events some of us left early but it was a good and memoriable time. Friday we went to the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/District-of-Berlin/Berlin/blog-245890.html This past weekend some friends and I headed off to Karnival in Koeln Germany 2nd largest in the world We had to get up really early in the morning to head to the train station and it was a long ride down there. I almost made us get off at the wrong stop because I kept hearing Koeln Koeln Koeln and I asked someone if this was Koeln and they said yes so I yelled at everyone to get off cause eve http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/North-Rhine-Westphalia/Cologne/blog-242811.html So I finally have time to update this so here it goesDAY 1. Landed in Frankfurt in the afternoon where i tried out my german for the first time. Seemed to be decent enough to live by. My first word was Entschuldigung on the plane and Nehmen Sie Kreditkarten at the coffee place. I nearly lost my ticket to berlin in the bathroom but luckily it was still laying there. Our gate was also changed t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/District-of-Berlin/Berlin/blog-234435.html Hey ya'llThis is the start of my trip with all the packing. I am nearly done packing all my stuff. I'm trying not to bring too many bags or too much stuff. I have a feeling I will be bringing some stuff home with me and I'll have to be trecking it all across Europe when the program ends. Right now I have a normal suitcase minicase backpack and laptop bag. My flight leaves Asheville at 455pm http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/North-Carolina/Asheville/blog-232951.html