whoops...two weeks

Well, it seems that almost two weeks have gone by now and I haven't had a chance to update. (Or haven't gotten around to it... :) Last weekend I had a couple of friends from Cocoa Beach who are currently studying in Metz, France, come visit me. I met up with them for Cologne and we spent the day being touristy, taking pictures of everything and walking all over the city. We actually got our picture taken for one of the local newspapers while we were sitting on the grass by the Rhein eating ice cream. I was never able to figure out which newspaper it was, though...so let me know if you see a picture of me and an ice cream cone anywhere!

Last week Friday we went to an open air museum in a nearby city Kommern. It was a collection of old village houses and a replica of how life looked hundreds of years ago. I have pictures which I will post soon, I promise! (I'm not in any of them though, I don't think...)

This week classes got a bit harder...we had to do oral presentations and then write a short paper on genetic enginering (new vocab!). However, I enjoy my teacher a lot, she makes things interesting. I'm trying to get into a class with her at the university. As soon as I get a class schedule together I will post here what kinds of classes I'll be taking. At the moment I'm trying to figure out how many credits I'm earning back home from the classes here because it's not a similar system of credits and grading.

Tomorrow we're heading to Trier, oldest city in Germany, so that should be loads of fun. I'll be sure to get pictures from that uploaded shortly thereafter. Much love to all!