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Freitag 18 Juni
GAPP Berlinl
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Samstag 19
Juni
GAPP Berlin
Last night Sarah, Karie, I stayed in a room together in the Mieneger Hostil. So
this moaring sarah was the first one to wake up, because the sun rose and she
was complaining about not being able to sleep because of the sun light. She took
a shower at about 7:00am and woke karie and i because she was so loude with the
bathroom door opening and closing it because she could not figure it out. When
she took the shower she turned on the shower wrong and the shower sprayed our
entire bathroom so it was a giant pond. Karie took a shower and then sarah and i
decited to leave her and go get some brakefast. When we returned i took a shower
and and when i was finished we met in the meeting room and left at 9:00am. We
went strait to the bus and started our tour. The tour guide was very weird and
pessimistic, he kept dissing on America and saying things like this was a great
church untill America bombed us, or Germany use to be good at this untill
America took over, bla bla bla. We went to a l ot of cool sights and everything
was very beautiful. The best part was that the tour guide had let us know that
we were staying in the drug central of Berlin, great..... after our 3 hour tour
we all had the choice of going shopping for 4 hours or shoping for and hour and
a half and then going to the Sony Center and watching the German soccor game. Of
corse sarah, karie, and i went shopping for 4 hours. At first we were shopping
with jon, krystal, and jackie, but we were going very slow and jackie and i were
getting very impatiant because we are speed shoppers, so jackie and i went off
by our selves. After that we got a lot of shopping done, i bought a berlin
jacket and alot of gifts for my parents and sister. When jackie and i were in
our prime shopping moments we finnaly realised that we had ran out of time so we
ran to our meeting place and then as a groupe we went to the sony center to meet
the others. Sarah, karie and i all went and ate ant a very good italian
restarunt that was very nice and i had the best sandwitch i had ever h ad. Then
we got really cold so we all went to dunkin donuts and and had some donuts. You
could still hear the croude from the sony center and every one watching the
soccor game. At 8:30pm we met at the old stop light and from there we headed to
the disco. I was a little mad because they would not let me change at teh disco
so i had to where my long sleev shert. I was not having very much fun untill
sarah showed me the ropes and i bought my self some lemonade, and then we headed
for the dance flore. All the american girls were dancing and then we just got
randome people to come up and dance, it was so fun! It was first just a few
people and then it turned into so many people that every one was shoulder to
shoulder and dancing. We all ran out of lemonade so jon went and bought us all a
new lemonade. We were dancing and i got a lemonade spilled on me that kinda
sucked. At about 12:00 am we all met and headed back to the hostel. Sarah, karie
and i were still a little hyper and so we were goofing around in the room and
then we started to get tiered from watching tv and then we went to bed.
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Sonntag 20
Juni
GAPP Berlin
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Montag 21 Juni
GAPP bakery + breakfast
Today we
didn’t have to go to class instead we got to got to the oldest bakery in
Neumarkt. It was established around 1846. This bakery has been in the family for
five generations and soon to be six generations. The bakery was enjoyable,
espacially getting to make pretzels. And our pretzels didn’t look that bad.
After making the pretzels and touring the bakery, we went back to the school and
had a real bavirian breakfast. It consisted of our pretzels, white (veal) sauage,
and some sort of mustard. It was
interesting to eat!
After school
Nadine, her mom and I drove to Kelhiem and Weltburg. Then we took a boat to what
used to be monastary. We ate lunch again in the courtyard, I ordered noodle dish
it was the only thing I kinda understood on the menu. We all had rattlers with
lunch, that is a beer with lemonade. Then we looked around nd tried to skip
rocks.
We took the
boat back to the town of Riedenburg And then we saw the hall of Liberation . It
was quite spectacular. We climbed at least 200 steps. The angels we all alittle
different it was fun to look for the differences. I could see how it would take
21 years to build. Then we drove home I fell asleep of coarse. I was still tired
from our trip to Berlin. When we got home we ate yet again. Then I kinda helped
Nadine with her homework (it was more like distracting) And I went to bed early.
Always
Krystalee
P.S. I miss
home. We come back in 12 days half ways though the trip.
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Dienstag 22 Juni
GAPP brewery
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Mittwoch 23 Juni
GAPP Quilting Class
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Donnerstag
24 Juni
GAPP Rothenburg
Today we woke up early, almost
too early. We got on the bus outside of the school over by the city pool. Then
we headed out on the bus to go visit some sites. The first stop was a german
outdoor museum. It was a medievil village which had homes from throughout
history. I don’t know what it was called but it was somewhat interesting. By
the end, though, most people had fallen behind and weren’t listening to the
guide. They also had a collection of farm animals including the largest pig I
have ever seen. It was a horse; about three and a half feet tall and about 6
feet long. Wow, that was a big piggy. Then we headed out to Rothenburg o.d.
Tauber. This was an amazing little town. It was right out of the middle ages
with its cobblestone web of streets and its ancient city wall and buildings.
There were lots of tourists. We met some people from Ohio, Texas, and
Pennsylvania. All highschool and college students as well. The gift shops were
really inexpensive. They had all kinds of knick-knacks and souveniers. I was
able to get a complete collection of all kinds of glasses and mugs (for pop of
course) including a massive liter mug for only ten euro. Then we met up and went
to the Crime and Punishment (the torture) museum. It was kind of interesting but
we took too long and the guide only spoke German so we didn’t understand much.
All in all, Rothenburg was pretty much how I remembered it from the last time I
was there; a picturesque little German village. It is a very photogenic place,
good for a day’s exploration. The bus ride home was like pretty much every other
bus ride; uncomfortable, hot and long. After getting back I had dinner with my
host family.
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Freitag 25 Juni
GAPP Altstadtfest
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Samstag 26 Juni
GAPP Altstadtfest
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Sonntag 27 Juni
GAPP Neuschwanstein
Paul Gydas
I got up at about 6:15 AM this morning. I hadn’t slept well
last night, so I’m fairly tired. I had a quick breakfast of eggs and toast. At
6:30 AM I was ready to go to the bus stop. We had the trip to Neuescwanstein
today and I didn’t want to miss it. I was the first American GAPP student to
arrive at the bus stop. Most everyone arrived at the last minute or late.
It was a 3 hour trip to Neuescwanstein Castle. I passed the
time listening to music and writing. We arrived by 10:00 AM. We hung around the
town for a while. We hiked up the mountain at about 11:45 AM. We arrived just in
time for our 12:15 PM tour. We only saw about six or seven rooms. There was a
multi-media presentation, but I didn’t attend it. We then went further up the
mountain to a bridge overlooking Neuescwanstein. It took us a while to hike back
down to the bus. We had a little detour on the way home. We stopped at a little
church. It was very beautiful. The trip home was 5 ½ hours. In Montana terms we
took the scenic route. In laymans terms... we were lost. When we got back to
Neumarkt, I procceded , at my host house, to cheak my e-mail, take a bath, and
go to bed.
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Montag 28 Juni
GAPP American breakfast + volkstanz
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Dienstag 29 Juni
GAPP
Nürnberg
Today we went to the train
station this morning at 7:15 AM. I had taken the train from my host family’s
house to get there. All of the American students met there and we left on the
train at 8:00 in the morning. It did not take long to get to Nuremberg. When we
got there, we went on a tour of the castle where the Emperor would stay when he
would visit Nuremberg. We also got to visit the medieval museum as well. That
was a lot of fun, because I like medieval things. I got to see old suits of
armour and old swords and old weapons and such. After that we went shopping,
again, and got some food. Then we went to the train station to wait for the
German students to arrive because they had had school. Unfortunately, their
train had broken down and so we had to wait in the train station for two hours.
After that, I went with my host
family (who had come to the station to find us) and we went shopping for a suit
for my host girl’s brother. Then we went to the American Diner at the Imax
theater. The food was good.
It was late when we were done
with dinner, so we went to their home and I went to sleep.
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Mittwoch 30 Juni
GAPP
Quilting Class
Today I woke up about 6:15 am,
just like every morning. It was the same rush to get ready and to the bus. The
bus was more crowded today though. Some of the kids must have missed the first
two busses. Viki and I got to school about 7:55 am, right on time. While our
host girls went to class, the rest of us had a short meeting in the GAPP
homeroom. From there Paul and I took off to go see what we could see around
town. I didn't buy anything but it was a nice walk. We got back to the school
early so we stayed in the main lounge area. About 1:00 pm school got out and so
back to the bus Viki and I went.
When we got home we had dinner.
Viki's mom usually cooks us a hot meal.After that I went and took a nap while
Viki did her homework. About an hour later Viki came in and we worked together
on her English homework. We finished just in time to catch a ride with her dad
to town. Viki had to go to her sewing lesson with Carol and I was to meet with
my new friend Micky. Micky and I went to the park and talked for about two hours
and then met Viki outside the school. After Viki and Micky talked for a while
then us girls took off for home. Once home
Viki and I sat down and watched
Ice Age. It was so funny in German. I loved it. After that... bed time!! Night
night everyone.
Amy
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Donnerstag 1 Juli
GAPP canoe
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Freitag 2
Juli
GAPP farewell
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Samstag 3
Juli
GAPP good-bye
