It is really cold here!

I never thought I would look at the weather and see that the high this week was going to be 22 degrees! I know I am being a wimp, but I am not use to this weather! It hurts my skin (especially my face) when I go outside. This is my first week that I have been taking the bus to school instead of riding my bike which helps, but when you have to stand out at the bus stop and then walk a little ways after it drops you off it still is not fun! It has been snowing a little everyday, but it isn't as bad here compared to what Todd has. He gets a lot of snow and has a hard time making it up the hills where he lives. They have to shut down early everyday because of all the snow.

I can't believe it is already December! This was the half way point I kept reminding myself of when I first left Atlanta. Time has been going pretty fast so far and I have really enjoyed being over here. Being away from home on Thanksgiving was really hard, but I couldn't be more excited to come home for Christmas! I can't wait to see everyone! Besides looking forward to seeing my family and friends, I am looking forward to some good Mexican food! They have no Mexican food in Germany. Germans don't eat a lot of spicy food so it is hard to find anything Mexican that is actually good! Even the salsa here is sweet and taste more like ketchup than anything else! So TAXCO here I come!! I am also looking forward to things being open on Sunday- I can't even imagine that being the case I am so use to everything closing on Saturday around 10PM and not opening again until Monday morning. I also want to go see an American movie.. IN ENGLISH! Just a few things that I have missed while I have been here.

I only have two more weeks of class until I am done with the second module. It is scary to think I only have two weeks to do everything that I need to, but it is also very exciting because whether I am done or not I will be home and enjoying a little break soon!

I went to a career fair on Thanksgiving in Cologne which I had to wake up at 3AM and get on a bus and drive for about 4.5 hours to get to, but afterwards Todd met me there so we could be together on Thanksgiving. Since we didn't have a real Thanksgiving dinner we went to the Hard Rock Cafe! The most American restaurant we could find! And our waitress spoke English which was a real treat! After our spicy chicken finger and beer we walked around the Christmas markets and had a great time... here are some pictures!

Weekend in Berlin!

I had my first friend visitor a couple weeks ago and I got a few classmates to come to Berlin with us to have a fun weekend! We stayed out a little too late and had a little too much fun! It was so nice to have someone from home here! :)

This was the hotel where michael jackson held out his baby- we were just reenacting! 

Halloween In Germany

It has been way too long since I have posted on here. Sorry for the delay. I have been very busy with school this module. But even though it is over a month late, I wanted to share the Halloween pictures. Germans don't celebrate Halloween so it was very difficult to find any costumes here, but we did our best! 

Girls Weekend In Copenhagen!

I went with three other girls from my program to Copenhagen for four days and we had a blast! There were definitely a few things that went wrong on our trip, but that just gave us more to laugh at!

This trip was very last minute and since we had finals up to the day before we left, none of us had any time to plan anything- so we met at the train station, luckily one of the girls had our tickets printed and we started our trip. So I hadn't thought much about how this train was going to get us all the way to Copenhagen, but I found out soon enough! The train actually drove onto a boat! We got on the boat and then all had to leave the train and walk up to the top of the boat where there were shops and restaurants and hang out there for about 45 minutes! After the trains and the boat, we found our hotel which ended up being a hostel (false advertising!). When I opened the door to our room the first thing that came out of my mouth was "we are back at camp!" The only thing worse would have been bunk beds! We put our stuff down and got out of there as fast as possible! I will never stay in a hotel that doesn't have private bathrooms again! We literally took the cleaning supplies from the maids closet and cleaned the showers every morning before we got in- NOT FUN!

Copenhagen is beautiful! Very very expensive, but beautiful!

The only part I really didn't like was the hippie haven called Christiania. It was scary- we were four little girls walking through groups of men that hadn't showered in weeks- after walking through a little and trying to go to the "museum" that was just a hippies room, I was ready to get out of there! We did NOT blend in at all! And since inside this area the rules and laws don't really apply, I was not comfortable being there!

My favorite part was Nyhavn- right on the water. We ate dinner down there one night and it was beautiful! We took a boat tour through the city which was also a lot of fun!

We also went into an ice bar! It was so cold that we only stayed for about 45 minutes, but they make you put on these huge coats and gloves and your drink cups are just ice- we had a blast!

Overall the trip was amazing! Great company and a great city!

Christiania:

 The sign leaving Christiania basically saying the laws apply now!