Germany Week 3 - Concert Weekend and Gamescom 2013

Week 3 here in Germany, can't believe how the time flies! This week consisted of: living daily life, doing daily life things, waiting on the weekend, taking an awesome "field trip" to the Augustusburg Castle in Brühl, Germany, and going to Gamescom later that day! The weekend turned out to be quite an eventful one. During all of these different times, I always had good company. Saturday night, we went to a concert with a series of bands that were playing an outdoor show in celebration of Gamescom. The bands that played were Trümmer, Susanne Blech, Flo Mega and the Ruffcats, and Tocotronic. It was a really really odd combination of bands together, but was very fun. Susanne Blech was REALLY great, with their combination of fast paced electronica, good beats, and German rap, they performed a fantastic show. Ending out the night with friends going to a club to dance more was the right thing to do. I've always said, good company and good music is all I need for a great time.

P.S: I have switched around my video rendering settings, and they now look 100 times better than all of my previous videos. No more of that blurriness whenever the camera pans over, so you will be seeing this quality from now on, enjoy!

 

Germany Week 2 - Amsterdam Trip!

Here we go for another summation of the week. Life in Germany is still yet fantastic. During this week, I felt I had come down from what I can only call in these exact words, a "traveling high." Life is still great, but rather than feeling as if I'm on vacation, I now feel as if I can begin calling Cologne my home. I am now a registered resident of Cologne with official papers, so this must all be true. The past week was spent with friends from all different countries across the world. Earlier in the week we had gotten to know each other a bit better before our wild trip to Amsterdam. The whole week was living in anticipation for this trip. Amsterdam is the most beautiful city I have ever seen. Its people are interesting, the city is always alive, the 70 something canals that run throughout the city can always be seen filled with boat tours, house boats, restaurants, and personal leisure boats, ALL WITHIN THE CITY. This past weekend I got to know many new people and really get to enjoy those that I was with, we bonded and all is good. Here we go for week 2 in Germany(and Amsterdam)!!!!

Germany Week 1 - New Bestest Friends at a Rave

The title is only a small fraction of all the things that have happened during this week. I have made many new friends and done a billion new different things. Living life here isn't that different from the US in the sense of living styles. I actually sat down and thought about it, I'm doing different things, I'm living on my own, my living habits are different, the person/people I live with are different, my eating habits are different, my personality in German is different, it's actually entirely correct to say that my life is COMPLETELY different right now. And it's not a bad thing! I've explored the beautiful city of Cologne, learned many more things about it's people, learned some Kölsch dialect of speaking, gotten stuck on a train with no one in it, cooked and eaten many new things, seen a thousand different new things, Germany is treating me well, and I only hope things will be up from here!

Kölner Dom

I had to show this picture I took, I was so proud of myself!!

Kölner Dom in Köln Deutschland

More Orientation and Germany!

You heard it right folks! I am now writing to you from my host family's flat that they own. It is very neat here. It is my 3rd day here in Germany, although the first one was spent in a very remote area close to Frankfurt, it only feels like 1 1/2 real German days. It was very cool to meet my host family, they are very nice and very good to me. I live upstairs on the third floor, it is 2 flats connected together, very interesting. Tomorrow, an Italian student will come to stay in one of the other guest rooms, so sharing this living space with him will be very cool, and I hope he becomes a good friend of mine. Finally, ich bin in Deutschland!!!!

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