Today was our free weekend’s Sunday. On Sundays in Wittenberg
there aren’t many places open, but I am out of money anyway so that isn’t
really an issue. I needed this day to work on homework, I feel like we have a
lot to do in this last week and not a lot of free time to do it in. We have a
long class day tomorrow, from 8am (730 really since the school to go geocaching
at is so far away) until 430. On Tuesday we go to Leipzig which will be an all
day thing I think, I’m not really sure since they haven’t given us a schedule
which is a little disconcerting. We don’t even know yet when we will need to be
at the Train station. So we really only have Monday and Wednesday evening t
work on our projects. And Wednesday they might make us give up that time to
help get ready for the farewell evening on Thursday.
Today was really nice though. I got up at 630 to bike into
the Leucorea and skype some people back home, and then I came back for
breakfast at 9. Breakfast was nice, Simonne was tired from her day in Leipzig
so when she went downstairs my hostparents had me come join them on the patio
where they were eating (we usually all eat together but we didn’t want to make
them move all of our plates outside once they had set them up inside) and we
talked about various things, like, some of their old house guests, the state of
marriage in Germany, how nice the bells sound on Sunday morning ringing
across Wittenberg, and how for Germans,
Beer is God : )
Then I worked on homework for about 2 hours, took a nap, and
then went on a bike ride by myself. It started to rain around 4 which is when I
woke up and of course went on the bike ride. It wasn’t a downpour so it was
still enjoyable. I rode to the Elbe path entrance that my hostmother showed me
last Sunday and was on it for about 2 hours before I came back to the house.
It
was really fun, it is so beautiful and the way that it goes not only along the
Elbe but cuts through residential makes for a very interesting view of Germany.
Words:
Lebensart (m) =
manners
Spiesser = traditional,
conservative
Schublade (f) =
drawer
Wasserspeier (f) (-s)
= gargoyle
Anmaβend = pretentious
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