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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Off to Germany

It's very early in the morning here, but I figured I had some spare time. This won't be too long of a post due to the ridiculously busy day that I and 74 other CBYXers have coming up. I've had thoughts of excitement, fear, joy, and all of the above really. All that I can say is: "I can do this!" I'll be flying from Dulles International Airport to Frankfurt, Germany in about 9 hours. Nothing is surreal anymore, what I mean is, I think it really finally hit me. I hope to keep you all updated. Bis Dann!!

Final Week in America!

This past week has been the longest and shortest week ever. I was lucky enough to have a great lunch with coworkers and be able to hang out with my 3 childhood best friends. Times were great with them, more than a 1000 stories to tell with them! Washington, DC has been an amazing city. It’s full of life and culture, it has a much different feel than Cincinnati has. It is really interesting to walk into a crowd of people and hear 8 different languages, it shows how diverse this nation has become. Yesterday, July 28th I met with 10 other CBYXers. All of them were amazing peoples, from all different walks of life, though we still have the same goals with this program! Germany is coming up so quickly as I write this morning. With it nearing 10 A.M I have only maybe 6 hours until I leave family to stay at Georgetown University. The campus is really awesome from what I have seen of it. I will make sure to get many pictures and video of it while I’m there. I can’t promise that this coming week’s video will be on time with this orientation, and all this other hectic stuff like going to Germany and whatnot. I will try my best, but I can leave you all with this past week’s video, my final full week in America!

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Less than 2 Weeks Left!

I sure can't believe it either. To think that next week on Thursday I will set foot upon a foreign land, so many feelings, a few I might not be familiar with. I'm also sorry I haven't been keeping up with my blog as well. I've realized over the course of this past month of doing videos, that I do a select bunch of things, and then I do them again. I don't believe it's a bad things, I just seem to repeat the things that I like. I'm ready to get away from all that and constantly be doing new, exciting things. This upcoming week will be full of some of those new things. Leaving for Washington DC at 4 A.M on Saturday morning. Oh, that will be joyous. (Warning: May contain slight trace amounts of sarcasm) This week will be weird for my video, hopefully the hotel WiFi will allow me to upload at a decent rate. Although, I cannot make any promises.

Luckily, I have all my important stuff done, just need to pick up a few things from the store and I should be good to go. This week's video includes kittens, a visit to the Cheesecake Factory, a visit to my Grandma's in a pretty little town and lots mores. Without further ado, Allons-y! (According to the 10th Doctor, in Doctor Who, it means "Let's go!" in French)