Ein Jahr in Deutschland

    Wilkommen zurück! I hope you all enjoyed the last two posts, I think I can keep on posting like this at least for a while. So let’s pick back up and finish my fall trip through Northern Germany.    We start on October 16, while we drive towards Bremerhaven, a harbor-city on the North Sea. It was about a three hour trip from Lübeck, and we arrived quite late. However, we were very lucky to be staying in a very, very nice hotel. We were right on the harbor, with a great view, comfortable beds, and easy access to Bremerhaven’s main attraction: the Klimahaus. We ate dinner at our hotel, settled in for the night, and got some good rest for our first day in Bremerhaven.    After waking and having a delicious breakfast, we walked from our hotel directly to the Klimahaus, which wasn’t far from our hotel at all. The Klimahaus is a beautiful, modern, flowing building, which houses one of the most interesting museums I’ve ever s...

Welcome back! Here's the second half I promised in the last post. I was going to make the two into one post, but I soon realized that wasn't the best idea. So hopefully splitting into two shorter posts works better, and makes it a bit easier to enjoy. Anyways, this picks up on our 3rd week of language camp, on August 22. The second week had been a pretty normal week, with pretty much just class as usual. Fortunately, on the third week we had our next excursion, on August 24, to the beautiful city of Quedlinburg. Our language camp was held in Hedersleben, a tiny town 40 minutes from Magdeburg. Quedlinburg was the nearest “large” town, with a little over 20,000 people populating its streets. Since it was so close, we didn’t need to rent busses like we had for previous trips. We just hopped on the local bus line, which eventually took us to Quedlinburg. We arrived a bit on the outskirts, and walked into the town to their high school, in this case a “Realschule” (Germa...