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Well I'm back from my 3rd weekend travels, and a sad reality has set in that I only have 10 days left here. Time really does fly when you're having fun. So I haven't updated you in almost a week so I'll try and be as detailed as possible. We spent Thursday in Brussels, as I said in my last entry and visited the European Commission. It is interesting to see all of these EU buildings, but quite honestly they all seem to do about the same things to me, and its hard keeping their very unoriginal names straight. It's been especially relevant though doing all these visits right in the middle of this whole debacle with Greece. Our professor typically ends our question and answer sessions of our visits by getting in a heated debate ... read more

Finally finding time to talk about Prague, by far the coolest place I've ever been. I spent the weekend with three of the girls on my study abroad trip: Aly, Shelby, and Erin. We didn't arrive back in Strasbourg until about 715 this morning, and we then had about 50 minutes to dress up in business casual for our professional visit to the Mercedes Benz factory. After spending the previous 12 hours on a train, our appearances were lookin pretty rough, but we made it work I think. So I'll start from the beginning... Friday: We took an overnight train from Strasbourg, and got into Prague around 1030 am on Friday morning so that was a smart move on our part instead of spending all day traveling. Despite the fact that there were some snorers on ... read more

Hello again! So I'm finally able to take the time to fill you in on my weekend. I got home from Germany around 830 last night, and after Skyping my mom and Sarah, I was too tired and just wanted to go to bed. Anyway, my trip to see Mona was great! I felt pretty adventurous taking the train all by myself. On my way there I actually did have to use the small of German that I know to figure out what train I was supposed to take from Cologne. This old couple was really helpful and just replied to me in English... clearly I wasn't a local. However, I misunderstood what they told me and ended up getting off the train two stops too early in the Middle of Nowhere, Germany. I was kinda ... read more

We started class today! It was quite the change from having been on the go non-stop for the past 72 hours. So basically a normal day consists of International Finance from 10-12:30 and European Integration from 1:30 to 4:00. Our first class is taught by Dr. Gaspar, the A&M Professor who is here with us on the trip, and our second class is taught by Dr. Ludwig Kreitz from the Universite de Strasbourg. Two and a half hours was a long time to sit still, but hopefully I will get used to it by the end of this experience. We have to take the tram to get to the university so that was a new experience today as well. But now that we know how to use it, it will be a lot easier to get ... read more