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Published: March 15th 2007
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work makes free
the famous quote on the gate into the camp, I can't believe I actually saw it. Hello my stateside friends! Seems like it's been awhile since I updated, but not too much has been happening around Baumholder. I've been working a lot. Thankfully staying in my preschool classroom, but things have been crazy since they stole one of our excellent staff members to put in the other preschool room. So it's been the lead teacher and I, and that is just not enough staff to last a full day in preschool! Needless to say it's been stressful for the staff and the kids, and they have been showing it by being crazy! They have also started to test my limits more, as I am now the only other in the room now. tricky kids. Hopefully they will be hiring more staff soon, but it's cys, so we'll see. Thankfully the weather has been great (like t-shirt weather!!), so we just take the kids outside for hours in the afternoon.
The ducks and I managed a ride to Luxembourg one weekend, they stayed in the city and I went up north to Wiltz to visit the family. It was soo great to see Annette and Pascal again! Not to mention just being in a house, that was great.
birthday!
the ducks made me a cake. and what birthday would be complete with out a beer?? I just stayed one day, but got fed wonderful food, hung out with Pascal and Zahree again, and slept-in in a comfortable bed. Felt a little like I was home. It was great visiting with Annette, and I'm already planning a trip back to lux.
The next weekend we validated our Eurail passes, and headed off to Munich. We left Friday night, and had a 4 hour lay-over in Mainz, which was okay with us because it was from 22:00 - 2:00, prime pub time! We found a couple of spots to kick back, and met some silly South Africans that thought we were in the military. Sarah and Jules had to run from the bathroom at the train station (the train was late, and slotted to be here in "15 min.") and I had to hold the train when it came early, and literally beg the conductor lady to wait! We made it though, and slept a little on the train. Got into Munich at 7:15 am and tried to check into the hostel but of course had to wait till 15:00 to get into our room. Found a tour of Dachau, which we planned to visit, so we
memorial
In Dachau, outside the museum building stowed our packs and went to the train station to meet up with a guide. The guy was a really cool Irish dude named Jamie, but since it was only the three of us we didn't get the tour. He did however, get us to the train, tell us where to go, and drew us a map of the camp and told us exactly what to see. And it was a lot cheaper for us to go by ourselves anyway. He basically ended up giving us the tour in the munich train station. We wondered around Dachau for about 3 hours, watched a film about the camp and just took it all in. I can't really explain it, but it was pretty powerful. Lots of images running through my head, and just to be in the barracks and the gas chambers and walking through roll call and stuff was... yea. I'm really glad I finally got to hit up a concentration camp while I was in Germany.
We wanted to go to Dachau on Saturday so we could come back and go to the Hofbrauhaus Saturday night! You know, wanted to leave Munich on a good note, not a depressed
the giant snitzel
and some Augustaner beer stoic one. But before drinking we went to this place (recommended by Jamie) for snitzel! The ducks hadn't had it yet, so I knew I had to show them the German way. And oh man was this snitzel great! It was soo huge! A superb German meal. And what better to go with it than giant beers at the Hofbrauhaus! AO, it was just like O-fest again, except for inside a building!! The beer was great and we ended up meeting some Americans living in England and sat at their table. And of course other random drunk people came over to mingle as well. Sunday we chilled, saw the glockenspiel on the New Town Hall and walked around with a free tour for a bit. The train ride home was alright, no almost-misses or anything. And, now... back to work. Planning on staying around Neubrucke for a while, and I want to try and get some trips back to Lux and H-berg before all our weekends are filled up with eurail trips. Hard to imagine that we are already at the half way point. I should work on homework.
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You think those kids are testing you now, just wait till spring fever hits! Love ya and miss ya loads