Come on Oma, take a picture...

My second week in Germany is finished....and it is just ridiculous how much fun I'm having. I was really apprehensive about coming because I didn't think that I would have any friends and I wouldn't have fun...that is the total opposite of what's been going on so far!

Yesterday we made a little day trip to Mainz...it is the capital of the neighboring "Bundesland" (state) of Rheinland-Pfalz. It was a great town with several cathedrals and a really cool open air market...I took quite a few pictures, but unfortunately can't upload them yet until I get internet in my room...we then traveled to Bacharach (literally "Shrine of Bacchus," the God of Wine...) so what do you think we did? We went to a really old-fashioned restaurant/wine place where an older German lady served us dinner and wine...and then we did some wine tasting...my parents will be so proud of me! It was so traditional! She wouldn't even allow us to take a picture with her...that's pretty old school. I think we'll go back some day...but we chilled near the Rhein for a bit, and then hit the train and got back to Marburg around 2 in the morning...I love going on trips where I have no idea what I want to do! Germany has a cool thing called the "Schönes Wochenende" Ticket, where you can have a group of five people travel anywhere in Germany as many times as you want during the day for 35 Euros (split 5 ways, 7 euros per person!). It's very sweet, I think I might travel every weekend.

Today we celebrated one of the BCAers birthdays at Paprica (just a cafe located in the Marktplatz) and had lunch...I'm going to go play tennis with him now and tonight well...I don't know what the plans are yet. It's really awesome just having like no plans...if I were at SNC, I would be so stressed and scheduled with everything going on, but now I feel like there's a big weight lifted off of me...hopefully it will remain that way for the rest of the semester!!!

I don't really have anything else to write about right now...bis später!

Dave