 | German Alps
2006-05-29, Berchtesgaden, Germany. By: walfredo | | We spent the day in the German Alps today. We took a train to Berchtesgaden, we then hiked about an hour up to Lake Königssee. We took the Jennerbahn cable car up to the top to see the spectacular v... |
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 | rain!!!
2006-05-28, Munchen, Germany. By: walfredo | | It poured down rain all day, but that did not stop us from having fun. We woke up and went to SchloB Nympenburg (a castle). We walked around the grounds for hours, then we finally had to buy an umbr... |
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 | First hostel
2006-05-27, Munchen, Germany. By: walfredo | | We had a seven hour train ride from Amsterdam to Munich today. We started out in a high speed train. There were 25 cars on the train and car # 22 was the smoking car (Warner made the reservation, so... |
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 | English Gardens
2006-05-01, Munich, Germany. By: jennys | | Our last day in Munich. May 1st is a holiday all throughout year. It’s like labor day, so it meant no classes, but it also meant nothing was open. But that was ok. The first thing we had to do was che... |
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| Museums and “Beautiful Bavarian Boys”
2006-04-30, Munich, Germany. By: jennys | | Sunday, our first full day in Munich and also our day for doing any museums we wanted since they’re all closed on Mondays. So, once we were up and had gotten ready (which was a bit of a trip in the ho... |
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| Munich, Here we come!
2006-04-29, Munich, Germany. By: jennys | | Saturday finally arrived! That means it’s time for Munich! Our plane didn’t leave until 1, and fortunately because there was a day trip planned, we were able to eat some breakfast at the college befor... |
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 | Headed on out
2006-05-10, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany. By: margieac04 | | My time here in wonderful Wittenberg has come to an end. Tonight we have our closing program and dinner with all of our guest families. The students have put together a short spiel, with a few songs... |
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 | No News is Good News
2006-04-30, Eckernforde, Germany. By: dhazel | | Hello everyone, April 30th to May 3rd
Thanks for the emails and guestbook entries etc. These last 4 days have been so busy I really didn't have much time to get on line. The one time I tried it see... |
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| 12 Days left
2006-05-02, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany. By: margieac04 | | The countdown to Greece has begun! Im leaving Wittenberg in 12 Days to go to Athens and Im pumped. We've got 'finals' this week. Weve covered a lot of topics in our history and culture classes this... |
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| Times a ticking!
2006-04-27, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany. By: margieac04 | | Just about 2 weeks left here in Wittenberg before we go off on our adventure in Europe! I am so not ready to go. It seems like just the other day we were waiting to get picked up by our host familie... |
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 | Easter weekend in Germany
2006-04-20, Wolfsburg, Germany. By: jessicajv | | Verena and her family invited me to spend Easter weekend with their family in Germany. I was very happy for the opportunity to see them all again. I was also very glad to be out of Rome for the weeken... |
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| Been a long time
2006-04-10, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany. By: margieac04 | | Wow its been ages since Ive written! Not having a computer available whenever I want is starting to get to me, and it will only be harder once the semester ends. Last week went by pretty fast. We d... |
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 | Gludwein me, baby!
2006-02-06, Radolfzell, Germany. By: incaqueen | | Think Germany, think Hitler? NO!!! Think Germany, think GLUDWEIN!!!! Welcome to the new century of decadence and ridiculous bushy politics.
Flying into small town Friedrichshahafen's airport, I wa... |
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 | Untitled
2006-03-30, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany. By: margieac04 | | Well, there are only 5 real weeks left to go before classes end. Time flies by when you are having fun! Classes wise, we didnt do a whole lot this week. On Tuesday, we went and visited the high scho... |
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| Emails!
2006-03-14, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany. By: margieac04 | | Yay, I love getting emails and today I got so many from everyone! That definetly made me smile haha. Well, we had a great weekend in Berlin. We saw a lot and were always busy, but I feel like we di... |
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 | It's IKEA Land!
2006-03-13, Berlin, Germany. By: jeccojade | | okay, so for the past like 3 hostels weve stayed at, every room looks like an IKEA ad for a college dorm room! I think its hilarious! The beds, the nightstands, even the lamps and the closets are all... |
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 | Heidelberg Was Was (What What)
2006-03-10, Heidelberg, Germany. By: oderf2513 | | So far Heidelberg is amazing. It is so great and beautiful, despite the trash strike. The EuropaHaus II where I live is really nice, except it's slightly hard to meet people because of privacy and I h... |
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| The Beer Country of the World!
2006-03-07, Munich, Germany. By: jeccojade | | Hello all! I hate that I havent had the time to write all the things that have been going on in the last few days, but Venice alone was charging like 8 euro for just 1 hour of internet time. HA!
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| Holding down the fort
2006-03-06, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany. By: margieac04 | | Im holding up the fort here in Europe! Last week we bought our tickets to Rome for spring break, which is in less than 2 weeks, and all 6 of us are getting very excited, even though its going to cost... |
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 | German Alps
2005-09-15, German Alps, Germany. By: Lindy | | Today we went hiking in the German Alps... it was gorgeous. We had big plans to hike all the way around the mountains to this little cottage... but those plans were cancelled when it started to pour ... |
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 | Germans
2005-09-16, Munich, Germany. By: Lindy | | Well, from dating a German, I've learned a lot about the people and the culture. One thing's for sure, they are proper, anal people. They have nice, proper breakfasts and they're unbelievably polite... |
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| The start of classes
2006-02-27, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany. By: margieac04 | | Well, classes have finally started. I really enjoyed my first few weeks without having to do much. i had a great time at the Gymnasium with the high school students, and have to give a presentation ... |
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 | Ups and Downs
2006-02-23, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany. By: margieac04 | | Well this week has gone up and down a lot for me. Ive been working at the high school in the next town everyday this week helping the students with their intercultural week and it has been a lot of f... |
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| Update!
2006-02-20, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany. By: margieac04 | | Well I had a good weekend. Leipzig was amazing. Hardly anyone got a good night sleep on Thursday night but we still had a blast. We saw the Nikolaikirche, Thomaskirche, the old city hall, the unive... |
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