A taste of things to come :)
Don't be afraid!
This journal hasn't been abandoned, and in fact be happy and maybe dance:
Because I actually posted a small sampling of the pictures I've not shared with you all! BWAHAHAHA! More to come when I'm back in the states :) June 1st....10:25 AM.... Be prepared ;)LOL Ok that's enough :) Seriously, see you all June 1st!
Yeah yeah yeah I know I know
I've been informed that i need to update with the end of my story. It doesn't really have an end yet though. That happens when I'm finally at home with you all again :) So you'll just have to wait a week. However an update I'll give you anyways. Finals suck. 'nough said there I think. I have 1 paper left to write to a seemless perfection of Germanized Englisch Grammar ;) Yes I'm quite aware of exactly what I just typed. More to come after the stress has been removed.... forcibly.... aka by setting myself down and forcing myself to write :) and study of course!
Sorry no pics this time
Yep I'm back from Munich and will hopefully soon have more pictures up and posted for you all to see :) However we're entering the hellish time known to us students as finals and therefore I have very very little free time. Anyways Munich was great and Munster is still great and more updates will be forthcoming hopefully tomorrow :)
Off to Munich!
Yep tomorrow I have to pretend to be a morning person once again and catch an 8:30 train, which means I have to be at the train station, which means leaving about a 1/2 hour ahead of time because I'll actually have to go by bus this time, and then an hour ahead of time for a shower and more last minute rechecks of packing. God I love traveling, seriously I do :) Anyways in order to help keep you all suitably entertained, I'll update with de piece de le resistanz...I have no idea if i even spelled that right, but just humor me and pretend it was perfect, Verona.
This was one of my absolute favorites, the archaeology museum! Wicked! Seriously, it was part indoors, part outdoors and pretty darn cool. Considering the outside is the remains of an ancient theater :)
Speaking of ancient theaters....the Arena!
The sign speaks for itself over the next few pics :)
Most of my adventures were spent with cool company. This is Gian Carlo, Hans, Anja, and Aaron in front of the arena. Gian Carlos is Italian, speaks no german and bits of broken English, Hans and Anja are cousins from Austria near Salzburg and spoke German and also broken English. So between all of us, communication worked out kinda well, flavored by lots of gestures :)
Juliette's balcony...Who goes to Verona and doesn't see that? or the next picture?
That is Hans and Aaron with the statue of Juliette.... now I suppose I should explain so you don't believe that they were just purely being perverse. You're supposed to rub her boob for good luck in love. So yeah it was really amusing. There were tons of people crammed into a small courtyard, trying to take pictures of the balcony and waiting your turn for a chance to molest a statue. This is also where some little school boys, maybe 12, decided they wanted a picture with me. It was kinda funny actually. I didn't realize they were talking to me until one grabbed and tugged my sleeve asking in broken English if he could take a picture with me. Me not fully understanding thought that he would want me to take a picture of him and his buddies, but nope. Right as I went to reach for the camera, he stood on his tip toes, put his arm around my shoulder and threw up a peace sign. *sighs* What can I say? It was flattering, weird, but I mean come on he was 12, silly school kids. Hans and Aaron just stood there cracking up.
This is a picture of our youth hostel. The views from the windows were pretty gorgeous
Graves outside one of the convents.
Views off the most famous and oldest bridge in Verona. Ah, even with bad weather its gorgeous seriously!!
These are all pictures from on top of the hill above the archaeology museum. I wanted to hike up there on our last night there and it wasn't a disappointment :)
here there's where the pictures were taken from. Near the caste on top of the hill above the archaeology museum :)
My view out of my window in the youth hostel :)
Anyways that's enough for now. More pictures to come on Tuesday probably since that's when I'll be back from Munich. Oh yeah I'm also going to Neuschwanstein for the first time ever too!!!! *big big grin*
Is it already the 9th?!?!?!
Yikes! Time does fly by when you're having fun! What can I say? I'm looking forwards to coming home but at the same time I've grown accustom to not having to drive, but rollerblading or if it's too rainy or too late at night riding public trans. It's going to be a weird adjustment to come home I think. This weekend, ok or rather Thursday, I leave for München aka Munich. I'll be back way late on Monday try 11 pm my time roughly 4 pm you all's time. With class the next morning, yippee! *sighs* I'm really looking forwards to going. Last time I was there was again 4 years ago almost now and I'm sure it's changed too. Perhaps not as drastically as my lovely Dresden, but still in some ways.
Anyways I still owe you all pictures from Spring Break. I know after almost how many days I still have Venedig to go through and also Verona. Verona by far was a favorite. :) But I said I was going to back track so Venedig it is first :) This isn't all of my pictures but some of my favorites. Same with all of the other pictures that I've posted for your reading and viewing pleasure. Heck, I want to have something to show and talk about when I come home ya know?!?
This is a view from the Hauptbahnhof towards the church across the Grand Canale :) Seriously it was my first time here and I was overly excited despite the weather. So I have quite the assortment of pictures regarding the color of the water and then I realized that having 5 pictures of a green blur was dumb so you can get the idea of the color of the water via these pictures. I was also thrilled because technically this water is all kind of part of the Meditteranean! Some thing that I had not seen before :)
(see dad I'm learning how not to add TOOO many details and get to the point, only I can't do in regular conversation...that'd just be too weird, back to the pictures)
This is one of the neat looking canals, one of the ones that they don't bother putting up signs with its name on it....in fact Venice is extremely confusing because the maps they have and the way their street/canal names are don't really match up... I think they do it on purpose!
A view from the bridge going across the Grand Canal from the Hauptbahnhof. Isn't it pretty even on a icky weather day?
Another one of the cool canals
And another
One of my favorite pictures actually. It kind of sums up how I had imagined Venice before...it didn't disappoint when I saw this :)
Me in San Marcos square. It was covered with PIGEONS! EVERYWHERE! People were buying little bags of bird seed to feed to them and they would crawl all over people. Seriously gross! However it made me think that if I have to ever be reincarnated...it might not be too bad to come back as pigeon in San Marcos...thanks to the tourists who want them to crawl all over them hehehe
A close up on the door in San Marcos. It's amazing how many little tiles go into the Mosaics. I would never had had the patience to either put the stones in place, or worse yet, clean each one!
Ok that's enough for now. More to come, this time from Verona. This time with less time in between updates, versprochen :) (God i love that word!)
Ah finally an update
We interrupt your currently broadcasted schedule to break a way for a moment from pictures from far more exotic places from around Europe than Münster and the area surrounding, however, these are quite nice as well :) These are from Lüdinghausen and Hausburg from a week ago :) Beautiful weather so when we took Anna back to Nordkirche, her, me, Jenni, und Mutti decided to go explore the Water fortresses :) And so I give you the pictures from them :)
This is looking from the main gate of Lüdinghausen's Waterschloss, aka a water castle but it was used as a fortress more so than as a palace.
This is one of the huge ugly fish in the moat surrounding the castle
Me, Jenni (the dog), and Anna sitting on the chapel stairs outside of the fortresses walls :)
View past the chapel :)
These are all pictures of the fortress itself from inside and out
Mutti and Anna by the main gate :)
Me and Anna inside the main gate on the main bridge :)
Me Jenni and Anna again on the Chapel stairs Awww :)
The back side of Hausburg
Outside the walls of Hausburg
Umm.... these next ones are from the inside of Hausburg....technically we weren't supposed to go inside, they had a sign outside saying you aren't really allowed in....that visitors aren't.... umm... desired... but heck the main gate WAS.... wide open and we couldn't help but peek...<.< >.> right?
Me and Jenni looking confused and slightly worried about our stepping through the main gate of the fortress hehe
View in from the second gate within the main walls. It's amazing how things are divided up in some of these places :)
