Tomorrow at 7pm I fly from Frankfurt to Amsterdam. I have the train ticket to Frankfurt, I have the plane ticket to Amsterdam, and I have a hostel for the four nights I’ll be staying. I’ll be arriving back in Freiburg at about midnight on Monday, so that I can catch a few hours rest [...]

I have been in Germany for nearly three months now, and today, just now, was the first time I’ve listened to Nena’s 99 Luftballoons. iTunes shuffle option finally came through.
Reminds me of that one night last year when my roommate and I decided to see who could stand it longer. I put the song on [...]

I just got back from the Christmas market here in Freiburg. Mildly entertaining, a bunch of stalls set up around the Rathaus (ie. town hall). The major thing at the x-mas market, besides a whole host of handmade crafts, is the Glühwein, which is hot wine. It was very interesting, sort of tasty. There were [...]

Today I went to class, which was fairly typical. I stayed up till around two last night, working on a paper. Two down, two to go. I’m doing all right in that area.
And then, at six, we gathered together to go to the Thanksgiving dinner that the study abroad program put together. And, surprisingly, it [...]

So, more than two weeks ago we departed for a ten day tour of Western Europe. The educational seminars were by and large better than the ones on the other trip, however the hotels (and their continental breakfasts’) were generally worse.
Franktfurt
Paris
Brussels
Luxembourg
Thursday, November 3rd we loaded our crap onto the bus bright and early at 8am. [...]