Aachen

This past Friday, the 5th, we went to Aachen for the afternoon with the International Office. It was actually a pretty cool city. We got to tour through Charlemagne's church, which is the shape of an octagon (very scandalous), and has lots of art of how Karl der Grosse, otherwise known as Charlemagne, is bigger and better than the church. I took a lot of cool pictures. The inside of the place was beautiful. And there's a cool myth about where his throne comes from. They're theorizing that because it's so plain in comparison to everything else, that the material then must be what's important about it. They can't quite place it, but you can see on the side of the throne there's a sketch of what looks like a board game, something that might have been at one point in time carved into the ground somewhere. Hence, the material for the throne was dug up from somewhere inherently important. Through dating both the material and the particular game that was played with that sketched out board, they think it's from the time of Jesus Christ. And so the theory somehow is that Charlemagne imported the marble from the tomb of Christ or something like that. (I didn't quite get all of the German...)

At any rate, today I received my grade for the intro course. I got an A :) yay. Now I'm just waiting on them to open class registration online so that I can get into my classes for the semester!