Pictures endlich!

I am currently sitting in McDonalds's (something I swore I would never do in Germany) and am using their free wireless to upload pictures. Desparate times call for desparate measures! I'll start from the beginning and work my way through my adventure so far.

Here you see Colin and Amelia with all of our luggage-- now imagine us lugging this onto a full train in three minutes and then trying to find a place to put it all...

This is where I live. The complex (called Sonnenbuehl Ost--Ost means "East" in German, and the buildings look like they're straight out of pre-1989 Eastern Europe) is made of up about 15 bungalows. You can see two in this picture.

My gorgeous room....thanks to some creativity (including hanging wrapping paper on my wall) it is beginning to resemble an insane asylum less and less! My trash can is overflowing because when I took this picture I still didn't quite understand the German trash sorting system and so just kept all of my trash in my room. I've since learned. My room smells better too.

One Saturday morning I walked to a nearby bakery with a few friends, and these were the kind of houses/apartment buildings we saw on our way there! It's still hard for me to believe that the whole town is made up of buildings as cool as these. I love Europe!

Lake Constance (Bodensee in German).

Another view of the lake. I see this view everyday on my walk to the University. One clear days, the lake is sapphire blue and I can see the Alps.

We saw this rainbow the other while we were walking to the University. I always wondered what was at the other end of a rainbow-- now I know, it's Konstanz of course!

This is where I go to Church. It's really cold inside, but very ornate.

As part of our orientation program, we took a trip to a brewery in the Black Forest. They gave us free beer, meat and bread after our tour. I can't tell you anything about the brewery except that they have a lot of big, shiny things that hold beer because I couldn't hear the tour guide, but the food was great!

A little house in the breathtaking Black Forest.

We also took an excursion to the city of Freiburg, and saw the university there, which was founded in 1457! That was before Columbus 'discovered' America!! In this picture, Aristotle and Homer sit outside the library.

This shade of red hair is quite popular among German women, especially the middle-aged ones. Not quite sure why...


SPRING!! Magnolia blossoms in Freiburg.