Okay, so not much happened between my last post and the Deutschland Tour, I went to my Host Oma's birthday party in East Germany.. I'm not sure if I wrote about that before.. if not, I talked about it in the second newspaper article which I've already posted. I will put up some pictures of that crazy weekend as well :)
Let me just say, MY ENGLISH IS GETTING WORSE!! Which is a good for me because that means my German is getting better, but it's not so good for those of you who are reading my articles/blog. haha :)
I think the best way to go about this is to post some of my journal entries from each city, and post the pictures of that as well. I will most likely end up doing this in several different posts, because it would simply take forever!! Oh and also, here is a picture of our basic travel plan so you know about where we were in Germany, we started in Duisburg which is about 45 minutes away from my town here in Deutschland.:
HEIDELBERG::: --> My favorite city up until Rothenburg. It's gorgeous.
We had quite a bit of free time here. I mostly hung out with Santiago, a guy from Mexico. I can't remember if I wrote this before, but Santiago is not only from the came city in Mexico (Pachuca) that my Host Sister is living in, not onlyy are they friends from before he left, but his family will likely be one of her host families!! It's a small world!! Anyway, I mostly hung out with Santiago and Morgan, a girl from Michigan.
We started the day out with a tour around the city. I honestly can't remember most of the facts, but I took lots of pictures! While we were waiting for the rest of the group to catch up to us, Santiago, Morgan, and I ran over to the Build a Bear because we wanted the hearts that they were giving out. Unfortunately, you had to spin a wheel and land on the blue to get one, and we simply did not have that much time. So instead we begged the lady to give us each a heart, and then ran away to find the group. It was pretty epic.
After the tour, we all wanted Pommes Frites (French Fries) so we were on a mission. We finally found a place, and ordered fries with ketchup. Unfortunately, we were not thinking about the fact that this is Germany, and in Germany, the ketchup is not reaall tomato ketchup, it's like.. curry or something. It tastes like tea. Seriously. Santiago decided he would use his bare hands to try to scoop the ketchup off of his fries, and throw away the ones that had been contaminated. Morgan and I were laughing hysterically, and the most I could do was offer him a Wet-Nap (if Lizzie is reading this, a MOIST towelette! :P)
The group reassembled by a huuuge stone bridge. At the front of this bridge, was a very odd monkey statue. It was wearing a mask, supposedly, if you touched the mask it meant that you would have a lot of kids, the hands meant you'd return, and the gong meant something else.. I don't remember exactly what.
After going to our Hostel (which was located by a zoo!!) we returned to the city. A group of us went out to an Irish Pub, and I attempted to order a Strawberry Daiquiri (Non Alcoholic, of course) and the waitress said, "This is an Irish Pub, Honey." Apparently in Irish Pubs they do not sell fruity drinks. So I went with a Red Bull!!
The next morning we hiked up a hill to a ruined castle that overlooked the city. It was BEAUTIFUL! Part of it had been destroyed by the French, and after it was rebuilt, destroyed by lightning. We went inside a part that was still in tact. There was a giant wine barrel, when I say giant I mean the size of a house giant. It was epic!
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