Hello!
Well, I have just gotten off the phone with my dad and I told him everything! And second time around is never quite as fun, so in a nutshell today was yet another marvelous adventure. I am feeling more and more comfortable with my german and even asked for directions auf Deutsch to complete strangers and carried on a conversation. I was very proud of myself! Well, I still am! It is almost 11 here, and I have no idea how I am going to get to bed because I am so jittery with excitment.
Tomorrow I begin my journey onward! New land ho! I am going to Chase's host sister's house to spend the night because the rest of the people (or at least a lot.) are going to an all night party and I must be ready to leave Darmstadt via the train early Friday morning. So I will leave my much loved adopted home and venture forth into a new one, and then a new city.
Here is the scoop for the next few weeks. We go to Bad Schandau next, where we might hike into the Czech Republic for one day I beleive. It is a 6 hour train ride to get there, so I may run out of reading material. But yesterday I bought Harry Potter if German, so maybe I can struggle with that a little bit. We will stay there for four days, then go to Dresden (I think.) In Dresden, we are going to see a Wagner opera which opened in that same city many, many years ago. I am so excited! I love operas, I just hope that I understand some of it. From there we go to Nürnberg for four days, I am not sure what the exact plan is for that city, but I imagine museums and aimless wandering around (which I so enjoy!). Then we go back to Frankfurt for one night only and fly out early the next day. We will be home again, home again on July 2. And I will be normal again shortly there after, with constant sleep and an occasional pee break.
So that is the plan, hope everything goes accordingly. I am pretty sure that internet access will be hard to come by for a while after that, so this may be one of the last for a while. But I might have time to email tomorrow evening at my friends house!
I love you all!
Lily
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Om Mani Padme hum
Well, I have just gotten off the phone with my dad and I told him everything! And second time around is never quite as fun, so in a nutshell today was yet another marvelous adventure. I am feeling more and more comfortable with my german and even asked for directions auf Deutsch to complete strangers and carried on a conversation. I was very proud of myself! Well, I still am! It is almost 11 here, and I have no idea how I am going to get to bed because I am so jittery with excitment.
Tomorrow I begin my journey onward! New land ho! I am going to Chase's host sister's house to spend the night because the rest of the people (or at least a lot.) are going to an all night party and I must be ready to leave Darmstadt via the train early Friday morning. So I will leave my much loved adopted home and venture forth into a new one, and then a new city.
Here is the scoop for the next few weeks. We go to Bad Schandau next, where we might hike into the Czech Republic for one day I beleive. It is a 6 hour train ride to get there, so I may run out of reading material. But yesterday I bought Harry Potter if German, so maybe I can struggle with that a little bit. We will stay there for four days, then go to Dresden (I think.) In Dresden, we are going to see a Wagner opera which opened in that same city many, many years ago. I am so excited! I love operas, I just hope that I understand some of it. From there we go to Nürnberg for four days, I am not sure what the exact plan is for that city, but I imagine museums and aimless wandering around (which I so enjoy!). Then we go back to Frankfurt for one night only and fly out early the next day. We will be home again, home again on July 2. And I will be normal again shortly there after, with constant sleep and an occasional pee break.
So that is the plan, hope everything goes accordingly. I am pretty sure that internet access will be hard to come by for a while after that, so this may be one of the last for a while. But I might have time to email tomorrow evening at my friends house!
I love you all!
Lily
--
Om Mani Padme hum
Lilly,
My heart took a leap when you said you would be walking into the Czech Republic. I lived there for 13 1/2 years. I love reading your posts. You have such a gift of writing in a way that we can see what you are experiencing, and of course you are taking pictures in your spare time. Can't wait to see them. What an adventure you are having and you are making life friends along the way for sure. The neatest ting for me when I was traveling is to realize we are all the same, one family just different languages...but the message from the heart is love. I am looking forward to reading more, and give the Czech Republic some love for me.
Big Hugs,
Mari
Posted by: Mari Hall | Thursday, 19 June 2008 at 08:36 AM