Blogs from Germany, Europe - page 660

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

Today we took a great trip to the nearby town of Bergedorf. While there, we toured a castle, walked through the woods, stopped to play a bit, smapled the fare at a local street market, and thew kids shopped to their hearts content. We left in a sort of Seattle rain, more of a mist really. By the time we stepped off of the train in Bergedorf, it had stopped. We first stopped at a very old church for a look around at the old architecture and painting inside. After that, when we popped up to the castle, it was already full of visitors, so we changed things up a little. We walked through the gardens and trails through the woods. It was a great walk with many trees, streams and ponds. As we rounded the ... read more

5-7 July: AN OPERATIC PLAY about Joan of Arc with full orchestral complement set in St. Marien cathedral; a Dr. Marcuse horror show interpreted by a dance troupe in two-dimensional fashion behind a black-and-white screen to a constant underlying droning sound. One earns ten minutes of applause, the other yawns and walk-outs. This is the nature of the performing arts during this Theater der Welt festival -- so varied, so unpredictable. Then a rather conventional play with corner staging -- audience on two sides -- three men fishing (not an exciting premise to start with) in an abandoned underground shaft (that's better), the dialogue full of allusions to Argentina's political past. Sunday's finale is a collage of graphic arts and photos projected onto two buildings at University Square, various visiting multi-media artists capturing Halle's theatre history ... read more

We started our second day in Berlin, knowing our roommate, slightly better than before. We previously encountered her as we arrived, managing to lock her into the room we were going to share. Although we didnt learn her name, we learnt that she would be travelling through eastern Europe, to our next destination Warsaw and then onward to Russia-which interested myself greatly. But again she kept herself to herself and we didnt learn much beside the fact she was an accountant and was taking a year out to do a journey which would take her to China. That sounds like an adventure! But obviously not as much of an adventure as the one your intrepid travellers have been following! Berlin day 2 began with us having what I would consider a traditional Berliner breakfast of a ... read more

Here are some of the accounts written by our students of their weekend with their host families. I will post more as I get them, but this should be a good start. I just thought it would be fun for you to be able to see what all of the kids are up to over here. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Over the weekend I did a lot of swimming. On Saturday we went swimming for six hours at ,,Die Insel'' with Shelby and Maren. On Sunday we went to the Baltic Sea with Shelby and Maren. When we got there we went swimming at the swimming hall in the center, for three hours. After that we went to the beach, but it was too cold to swim. Later a thunderstorm started so we went home. Thats my weekend!! Shayla ... read more