Blogs from Coburg, Bavaria, Germany, Europe
January 29th 2011
We spent the afternoon today at Coburg, touring a little bit. We stopped in at the Puppenmuseum, a Museum for dolls and puppets. There were dolls there from the 1800's all the way up through Barbie. After the museum, we drove over to Veste Coburg, the Castle overlooking the city. We arrived too late to tour the inside of the castle, but walked around the outside of it taking some pictures. We will be going back to see it again when we can go inside and look around.... read more
July 14th 2008
Samba is now over, Lots of dancing and drinking! Over 50 different drum groups and loads of girls :D Saturday we hung out at samba and actually went though the festival, ate food and saw the competitions. Sunday we went to go see the samba finale, this consisted of a parade of all the different drum and dance groups. After we walked through the town and then headed home. So tired after 3 days of partying so in bed by 9, and I finally started reading my book. Perhaps a mistake, as I can't put it down... Today I went to talk to the english teacher at the school, and walked around the town. You find many interesting things when you walk alone. I even managed to put some money on my phone even though the ... read more
July 12th 2008
Hello all! The last few days have been full of events. Thursday I slept in till noon after going to bed at 9pm! After this we walked around downtown, and then up the hill to the Coburg Castle. Asides from being a museum in itself, the castle also houses a museum of bavarian heritage. Many rooms are left untouched from when the castle was constructed. Including Martin Luther's room. Later in the evening we drove to go pick up a car at audi dealership in the next town. We then went to Cesslach for dinner, jager schnitzel mit potato salad :D Friday i got up and went to school with Jonas und Jakob. The school is 402 years old, and has about the same amount of students, a huge difference to our overcrowded class sizes. Traditional ... read more
July 9th 2008
After 20something hours of traveling, i have come to my destination! Ended up catching the train out of frankfurt at 830 in the morning. The ICE is FAST, speedo went well over 220 km/h. Because of the earlier train i had 4 hours to kill in nurnberg, walked around the old part of town, saw the sites and had a brat and bun for lunch. Arrived in coburg at 330pm where we hung around at home for a while then walked around downtown. Going to bed early as i've been awake for 30 hours now, so after a good nights sleep i should be jetlag free. Flying over what i believe is hudsons bay. This is what looking out the window when your flying down the tracks at over 200km/h. Lastly, this is the fountain in ... read more
August 1st 2005
So… about that storm of homework… 3 big projects, 2 little weeks and the computer is not being cooperative. My big design project, the one I’m designing with the product design department and in cooperation with Melitta, has a final design, at long last, and in order to have a final model to show off, our teacher, Herr Kampe, arranged a pretty sweet deal with a modellbau (a workshop) that’s in Nürnberg (about an hour south of here). So, along came Saturday the 23rd and I carpooled down to the place with a few other students to jump into model making. I was totally flying by the seat of my pants, because I had no idea how I was even going to begin with this thing… it was supposed to turn out as a rubber placemat ... read more
June 20th 2005
I met Karin Engelhardt by accident in Hofbrauhaus a couple of weeks ago, and found out that she was the first Fachhochschule Coburg student to come to K-State. That was three years ago now, but she’s still around, finishing up her last semester in school. She goes home almost every weekend to her town of Himmelkron and she invited me to with her anytime I liked, so I called her up for this past weekend of the 17th-19th of June. (June? Already?) Karin picked me up Friday afternoon, and we hit the road. The first stop was supposed to be a visit to Karin’s godmother, who was in the hospital with minor pains, but a few wrong turns later happenstance put us at the foot of a hill with a well-known Pilgramige Church atop. I’d known ... read more
June 6th 2005
On Thursday the 2nd of June, International Stammtisch (round table) decided it would be nice to go explore some nearby towns, so the international office rented a 50-person bus, and we all url=http://dict.leo.org/?lp=ende〈=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType=relaxed&relink=on§Hdr=on&spellToler=std&search=schleppenschlepped over to Seβlach (yeah, I know it’s only in german… just click some stuff, it’s bound to take you to something interesting). We got an honest to goodness tour of the old town, which is preserved under german historic-site laws. The town is neat for so many reasons. It’s pretty small, but the original wall is still in place (ok, it’s been repaired quite a few times, but same footprint), all the towers are there, and because of the laws, no one inside the town walls can have TV antennas or satellite dishes or anything that... read more
May 29th 2005
Our school’s student-organized design fair is better described in pictures than in words. Website... read more
May 18th 2005
Hey, guys… good news! One of my Resopal design competition entries placed second! Besides being newly rich and world renowned, I will be published in an upcoming issues of “mt international” magazine, and my design has the possibility of going into production. Because I’m not sure everyone understands, lemme explain… The Resopal company is a subsidiary of the American company Wilsonart, and makes laminate surface materials (just like Formica does). They approached FH-Coburg’s Innenarchitektur department (that’d be my school) about having the students design a basic pattern that incorporates their logo, and that could be used in one of 3 applications: as an overlay to an existing color or pattern on the finish (front) side of the installed laminate, as a ... read more
May 11th 2005
Ladies and gents, boys and girls, dogs, cats, birds, snakes… I didn’t do a damn thing but shop in Munich. I have no pictures for you. I have no cultural insights, unless you want to count the observations about today’s über-consumer society (of which I was right there playing a part). I hope I didn’t let you down too much. Know this: it was rainy and gross most of the 30 hours we were actually out of Coburg. It went like this: Tine, a girl from our Resopal competition project, was going that way anyhow in a rented station wagon, which was more than big enough for the 4 of us. Tine ‘had’ to stop at Ikea on the way, and I didn’t realize (though I should have) that Ikea has a small Swedish specialty food ... read more
