Deutschland Reise!! Germany Tour!! part3

Day3

Same drill. We woke up, got some breakfast and started heading to our next location. After a couple hours in the bus we arrived to Rothenburg. Rothenburg is a very small and beautiful town. Like all the other places so far: we explored the city and took a lot of pictures and had a nice time. Just like in Köln me and my friend found a high tower in which we just had to climb up in. The climb was worth it though. The view up from the tower was amazing. Up in the tower was an old guy selling tickets. He had a really small office with a small TV for entertainment. Somehow the old grumpy man looked a bit funny in his small office.

After the visit in Rothenburg we continued our trip once again and headed to Eisenach where we visited the second castle of our journey. The Wartburg castle. We had a really interesting guided tour in this castle. For example we learned that Martin Luther King had visited the castle and translated in this very castle a great amount of the new testament to German. Also the story about how this castle was founded was quite interesting. The quy that built the castle went hiking around in the terrain, and he thought the spot was so beautiful that he has to build his castle there. His problem was that he didn't own the land where he wanted to build his castle. Therefor he brought dirt from his own land during night to that very spot where the castle is now standing. So basically he built his castle on his ground, not someone else s. unfortunately i don't have pictures from inside the castle, since that would have costed me two euros ("welcome to Germany"). I really didn't feel like paying two euros to take pictures. But apparently everything costs in Germany. Even public bathroom (just a heads up)

After Wartburg we travelled to weimar where we spend the night.

Deutschland Reise!! Germany Tour!! part2

Day2

The next day of our trip we started by waking up, eating breakfast and then heading to a museum in Bonn. The museum was about German history starting from the time around the first world war and ending around the time when the Berlin wall came down. We had a really nice tour guide who had lived trough the cold war so he told us a lot of interesting details about it.

After the museum we continued with our journey by bus to Heidelberg. There we inspected a nice castle. It was raining a lot but we still managed to enjoy the sightseeing.

After having explored the whole castle we went to a hostel in Heidelberg were we would spend our night. When we arrived to the hostel we ate a quick dinner and then all the exchange students took a bus to downtown Heidelberg and started exploring the city. We walked around a bit and had a good time, just chilling and talking and so on.

Deutschland Reise!! Germany Tour!!

Day 1

The first day of the Rotary Germany tour we rallied up in Bremen and in Oldenburg. From these locations we were picked up by a bus and started our journey around Germany. 

Our first location that we visited was the city of Köln. Köln was a really nice city with its biggest tourist attraction the Dom of Köln (Dom=Church). In Köln we had first a guided tour about the Dom and then some free time. In our free time we did the Locos dance/song ( the dance/song of the exchange students from Rotary district 1850). We got a lot of attention from people around us while doing this and the people started to take photos and I think they taught what we did was really cool. Other than doing the "Locos" we walked around in downtown and walked to the top of the Dom. 1100 stairs going up and another 1100 going down. My legs were really hurting after walking all those stairs!! But it was all worth it, the view upstairs was amazing. If i remember correctly, the tour guide said that the church is 170m high. And what made the experience even better was that it was raining a lot and there was also thunder not that far away from the tower. 

Up in the Dom

After our visit in Köln we drove to Bonn and spent the night there.

What I have done the last few weeks and the first day of school

Oldenburg

I visited Oldenburg about a couple of weeks ago. Oldenburg is only about 35 min away from Brake and you can get there by bus. I went there with my host sister. We ate some Currywurst and did some shopping.
 Oldenburg is bigger than Brake or Elsfleth and there are a lot more stuff to do, so I'll probably visit Oldenburg more than once:).

Bremen

Bremen is another big city near Brake and Elsfleth. It takes only 50 min by train to get there. If you are ever bored, this is the place to come to. The city is quite beautiful itself, without even looking at all the activities it withholds. I've visited Bremen already a couple of times. I've been here with other exchange students and with some local German friends.

Other than going to Bremen and Oldenburg, I've been doing some sport and been chilling with friends in Brake.

Today was my first day of school in Brake. I'm in the 10th grade with students younger than me and I wasn't able to choose any courses(the school had chosen them for me). Other than these small mishaps the school seems fine.