FriendshipTour 12.6-19.6.2014

So the whole last week I didn't go to school. Instead I went on a super cool tour called the Friendship Tour. It was a tour with the "short-term" Rotary exchange students so basically this tour wasn't meant for the long-term ones, but since there was some spots left on the tour I was able to participate. The tour was super nice and we all had lots of fun!

The first stop on the tour was Autostadt in Wolfsburg. I had already visited it once before so I knew what was ahead.

After checking out the cars in Autostadt we ate some lunch and continued our trip to Leipzig. In Leipzig we visited the Christmas market and a museum telling us about the German history after the second world war.

The rest of the evening we spent just walking around in Leipzig and chilling in our hotelrooms.

After breakfast the next day we traveled to Dresden! Dresden is such a beautiful city with lots of history! It became without question one of my favorite cites here in Germany. 

After walking around in the city the whole day we eventually got to rest for a while at the hotel before going back in the evening to visit the beautiful Christmas market. 

Next day we visited Nuremberg. The city is mostly know for its Christmas market and for being a rally point for the National Socialists. We had a guided tour at the grounds where the National Socialists used to rally up and then we visited the famous Christmas market.

After Nuremberg we continued to Munich were we visited the Allianz arena and ate a Bavarian dinner at a restaurant called Augustiner. 

The next day our journey continued to Neuschwanstein where we visited a beautiful castle.

After visiting the castle we traveled to Kals in Austria where we skied in the alps for the next three days.

Christmas markets in Hamburg

This weekend I changed my host families. It is a custom for rotary exchange students to have more than one host family. It was a little sad to change but it's not like i'm going to leave Germany yet so I still have time to meet my first host family!

So this weekend I went to Hamburg with my new host mom. There we met the Grandma of the family. She showed us around in Hamburg and we saw some really cool sight seeings. It was really cold and windy but other than that once again I had a really nice day in the beautiful Hamburg. First we went inside the Hamburg Rathaus and had a guided tour there. After we visited the famous Christmas market right outside the Rathaus. At one other Christmas market i saw a Finnish stand. There was a woman selling Finnish honey. I went straight away to this stand and started speaking Finnish with the lady, she was very surprised but thought it was nice also.