Here are some more of the Ireland Photos. Hope they can be seen and enjoyed by all. [View Full Entry]

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Here are the Louvre pictures. The museum is huge and filled with tons of stuff. We did not make it through the entire museum, but I think we finished a wing. [View Full Entry]

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Here are the rest of the Paris pictures from Spring Break. Woohoo!!!! Hope they come out good so everyone can see them. It was a good time. [View Full Entry]

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The first half of Spring Break was spent in Paris. I was there for five days. It was alright for the city, but I don't think I would go back. I think I was there a couple days too long. I was there with Katy, Kelly, and Phill. We saw all the sights and everything. It was very tiring walking all over the city and such, but nice to get there once. Our last night in Paris we went to a fancy three course meal dinner. There were no veggie options for me, so I got the veggie plate and creme [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday was the SonntagsZug, which is traditional event in Germany. The kids get this stick that has ribbons on it and a hard-boiled egg on the top with a summer pretzel. The summer pretyel is sweeter than normal and I tried one and it was really good. They also have a ceremony where winter is burned to signfy the end of winter and then the beginning of summer/spring. It was a pretty cool ceremony thingie. There was a woman as the summer warrior and a man as the winter one, who loses in the end. At the end of the ceremony [View Full Entry]

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We took a trip to Frankfurt with AJY on Thursday last week. It was pretty cool, but again super super cold which made it a little less fun. We went to Goethe's House, a big german writer (sometimes compared to shakespeare). It was a pretty cool place, but the tour took a really long time and it went into our lunch break so we were all pretty hungry. After lunch we went to the Kaiser Museum where Herr Dörr (one of the teachers at ajy) talked about the kaisers and history stuff. Then we went to Paulskirche. It was a beautiful [View Full Entry]

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On Friday the tenth europahaus iii, where kelly lives, had a kneipe tour for the house. kelly invited me so i went with her. at first it was a little intimdating because everyone was in groups and there was very fast german being spoken, but after the first bar everything was good. kelly and i started talking with the german students and stuff. we had a ton of fun. we went to three bars in heidelberg and kelly and i could definitely not keep up with their drinking. after the bars we went to döner, which has basically gyros. its the [View Full Entry]

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katy, phill, and kelly came to my room for dinner. katy and phill go to carthage college in wisconsin and kelly goes to the university of pittsburgh. katy lives on Ringstrasse which is a 15 minute bus ride or so, maybe a little less. phill lives in jagerhaus which is in the altstadt (old city) where i live. kelly lives in europahaus III which is down the road from me on plöck (thats my street). we decided to have a rotation of dinners at each others house to save money, speak german, and hang out. we also are planning on traveling [View Full Entry]

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there is a garbage strike going on in germany currently. its been going on i believe for around three weeks or so, something like that. they did their demonstration on hauptstrasse and we could see the whole thing from ajy (the center where we have class and the center for the program). it was like 20 minutes or so. cool to see. i got to see a protest in germany. yeah for being a politics and german double major. [View Full Entry]

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so the flight was super long, almost eight hours and i didnt sleep very well. maybe like an hour, which is sometimes normal for me, but plane sleep is definitely not good sleep. check this map out. its where i flew. [View Full Entry]

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