Blogs from Midtown, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, North America - page 3

We spend the last couple days getting settled. We paid our first rent and actually did laundry at the apartment. We will move our 'stuff-mainly clothes' in Tuesday and actually sleep there. We only agreed on one month to see if we like it. It is a basement apartment and although it doesn't look like a basment, there could be some dampness. Anyway, we did laundry; I had more paperwork to complete. We had a late lunch, got gas and headed back to the campground. We took a walk and sat by the lake. Ducks from across the lake heard us and came swimming over, got out of the lake and walked up to us. After a few minutes since we didn't have anything to feed them, they got back in the lake and swam away. ... read more

I get ready to depart for a 10 hour flight to Frankfurt today. I will spend a night there to adjust to the time zone and see the city. My friend Tim will pick me up Sept 1st. I am taking one medium suitcase and my pack. I have my EuroRail pass for Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Austria, which allows me 5 days of travel over the month. I have one flight from Munich to Croatia since it will be easier to fly to the Southern Dalmatian coast than taking a train all the way down and back up again to Germany. The only part I hate about international traveling is the long initial flight. 10 hours on a plane is not my favorite activity (is it anybody's?), but I look at it as a ... read more

Today was another day exploring Atlanta. I started at one of the city’s most famous landmarks. The battle to preserve it actually started the city’s preservation movement in 1975 (compare this to Savannah, where preservation started decades earlier). That landmark is the Fox Theater. Fox Theater The story of the theater starts with the local Shriners’ chapter, Yaarab. By the mid 1920s, they had outgrown their original headquarters, and wanted to build a new one. They acquired land in Atlanta’s Midtown section, which at the time was a streetcar suburb, and had a competition to design the building. The chapter chose an Egyptian and Moorish fantasy by local architects P. Thorton Mary... read more

Well I woke to find out it was minus 6 and with wind chill actually minus 15. Decided to head away straight towards Atlanta as a major winter storm was still being predicted to hit the southern states later tonight. Atlanta is famous for a few things being the home of Coca-Cola, host of 1996 Olympic Games and CNN. It also has the largest free standing granite rock in the world known as Stone Mountain. The drive was only about 200km and the skies were mostly overcast. I was amazed at just how many signs we saw for Waffle House along the drive which looks like a dump but must be OK if they have so many outlets. I guess they sell Waffles ! As we approached the Atlanta area we decided to get some lunch ... read more

Hallo daheim! Ich bins wieder! Schön, dass ihr da seid! ;) Es hat sich schon so viel getan seit meinem letzten Eintrag, Wahnsinn! Jeden Tag passiert so viel, ich bin die meiste Zeit mit verarbeiten beschäftigt *haha* Aaaalso, die Kurse sind der Hammer, in jeder Hinsicht. Erstmal sind alle superinteressant. Der Kurs über Young Adult Literature ist besonders toll. Die Professorin ist um die 50 und voll spritzig. Sie liebt Kinderbücher und ich glaub insgeheim wär sie selbst gern noch 10 Jahre alt. Der macht also schon mal voll Spaß. Allerdings sind jede Woche 1-3 Bücher zu lesen und dann noch Sekundärliteratur + Aufsätze bzw. kreative Arten, mit den Büchern umzugehen - voll lässig, z.B. Collagen fabrizieren, selber Gedichte in Zusammenhang mit dem Buch schreiben, fiktionale Interviews mit den Protagonisten führen und und und. Wir praktizieren ... read more