Back at home, and things are still crazy.

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Easter. Oh, my, I never would have guessed that an entire country could go on vacation all at once, but leave it to Germans to do the unthinkable, because here, every half-way important Catholic celebration is a bank holiday, too. Translation: Good Friday everything is closed. Saturday morning, it all opens back up, from 8 am to 2pm. Then everything closes again until Tuesday morning.
And *I* returned to “school” (I’ll use that term loosely) to find that… hey, I have Easter break, and I didn’t really miss any more than about 2 classes all week, anyway! Let me break it down for ya: officially, classes began on March 15th. For my particular major of Interior Architecture, that did not mean “classes,” that meant “presentations of final projects from last semester.” I don’t have any of those. So there went 4 days of “classes” down the tube. Then I was gone adventuring with the Jo(h)ns for the following week, but that’s ok, because classes were only held on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Because the school thought that after 7 days of classes, the students surely need a 6-day weekend. HUH? I do finally have a class tomorrow. 11:30 am. And then I have an appointment at the computer center to get my computer back online (which will explain my lengthy delay in posting the last… 6 or so entries).

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Photos

Hofbraeuhaus
a better view

Easter decoration
They dress up the fountains all around town for Easter, plant flowers all around the base of most of them... it's as much a decorating hubbub as Christmas is in the States.

Hofbraeuhaus
pronounce that one if you dare. Eventually, they tell me, I'll have classes in this building, off the main campus (by about a 20 minute walk).