Germany Week 33 - The Finer Things of Life

This week was not quite as packed with events every single day to pass the time. The days that were filled with those things though, wow did I see a lot! On Wednesday was a day spent at the Vogelstation, caring for animals and a little baby rabbit, it was all quite enjoyable that day. Thursday and Friday were spent at the factory of the oldest and finest porcelain makers in all of Europe, in Meissen. The whole camera crew was treated to wonderful meals at the restaurant they have there. It was probably a couple of the nicest meals that I have ever had. Meissen Porcelain is truly a thing of beauty, completely unmatched by anything that I have ever seen. Saturday was a weekend day spent relaxing, going to a burger restaurant, watching movies, and drinking wine together. It was a great week, and hope to see more of them!

Meissen, Home of the Finest Porcelain in All of Europe

This post especially goes out to my Grandma who I know who really enjoy these pictures!

Here is a look at the famous Meissen Porcelain. Meissen Manufaktur was started in 1710, they were the 2nd manufacturers in all of the world to manufacture porcelain. The Chinese were the first, and the Germans, the second. I was there with the film crew from my internship to film the Meissen porcelain painters. Their master painters are some of the best porcelain painters in all of Europe. It was a great honor to be able to see and watch them work.

 

Germany Week 32 - Prague Round 2

A bit of a filming break was taken early in the week, I do apologize for that. Though this weekend is still packed with videos from the 5 star fish restaurant "Kastenmeier's" that I went to with the film crew to film a presentation over Meißen Porcelain. And for the weekend, as the title might suggest, I went to Prague for the 2nd time, ROUND 2 IN PRAGUE! I went with Trez and Mike, both PPPlers. We met Janne there, that poor soul had already been there for 5 days on his own. Luckily he survived. The weekend was filled with mistakes, mishaps, dangerous Czech trains, beautiful sights, beautiful architecture, a pub crawl, and much more. Prague is a really neat city, I appreciate its beauty and would recommend anyone to go there at least once. Twice is enough for me I do believe!

Germany Week 31 - 5th Dimension Birthday Parties

Spring-time may finally be coming around. This week's video of week 31 here in Germany showcases a step-up from my usual video editing/creating, I would really love to keep improving as much as possible.This week included birthdays of what seems to be the "Dresden 30th PPP host family." On Tuesday Falk's birthday was celebrated and Kerstin's also on Saturday and a bit of Sunday. Throughout this week are many funny clips, a little bit with food, some with birds, a little conversation from the Germans, and all the extra stuff that goes along with it! Leave feedback and tell me what you guys think!

Germany Week 30 - Reasons to Cheer Up

30 Weeks here in Germany. Wow has it gone by fast, very stereotypical saying, but still it seems that way! For the first few days of the week I was pretty homesick and just kind of sad overall. My first day at the Vogelstation/Bird Rescue/Care Center on Wednesday cheered me right up. I had an absolutely great time interacting with all the birds, animals really just make me happy in general. After cheering up, I was once again excited to be here in Germany and I will make the best of these last 4 1/2 months here. Of course during this week was lots of delicious food, a rave that I was unlucky enough to have no film of, and just fun times. I've done something that I though my non-German speaking viewers would like. Of course I don't mean that insultingly, I just wanted to mention that from now on I will be putting in English subtitles for the German spoken in my video. I will try and subtitle it all but honestly I cannot always understand, and sometimes my subtitles may be incorrect, just bear with me and I will do my best. Hope you guys enjoy this week, 7 months in Germany already!