Fastnacht is officially here!!! It was ushered in yesterday at 11.11.07. otherwise know as St. Martin's day!! It all began Saturday night when I went to meet Ann for the Symphony. I noticed that when I took the bus, we skipped over Schillerplatz, and when I walked to Schillerplatz, it was completely closed down and they were erecting a large stage as well as other large structures right on the square. Now, I knew that 11.11 issued in the Fastnacht season (th...

Hello my peoples!! Well, over the weekend, I made plans with Amy and Isaac to go to Bingen, because, well for two reasons. First, it completely falls within that realm of free-ness that comes with our Studitickets, and two, it was supposed to be a really nice town, not too touristy, but nice. I guess the closest word that I can come up with is quaint, but anyways, describing Bingen isn't the point of this blog.....or is it? Anyways, Isaac, Amy, Liz and ...

So......Speyer. Where to begin. First, it was AMAZING!!! Let's try this again....ok, so I woke up on Friday, and just spontaneously decided that I wanted to go to Speyer. There really was no other factor in the equation, i was just tired of all of the rain and nasty weather in Mainz, and it was sunny on Friday. I had to cancel lunch with Julia, for which I am very sorry, but i was bound and determined to see Speyer when it was sunny. To begin with, I ...

Guten Tag!!!! Well, today I went to Köln, which is about an 1hr and a half train ride from Mainz. It was pretty nifty, if i do say so myself. I didn't go alone, though as I had originally planned, instead Issac decided to come along with me, which, in my opinion, made things more fun. We got up early so that we could get a good decent train because last time we went to the Reise Zentrum to get tickets, hey told us that most of the trains to Cologne (for ...

Well, this is my first entry, and just to give credit where credit is due, I totally stole the idea to do one of these blogs from Jessica. Just, so everyone knows. Well, today is All Saints Day, which in Germany is a national holiday, so I didn't have school today, which was kinda cool. However, I don't usually have classes on Friday either, so now I have a 4 day weekend. This, to any other person would be like the best thing ever, but not to me. Mainly be...