April 18, 2007 12:43 AM
Today was a pretty good day with the exception that I nearly fell asleep on several occasions. Six hours of sleep should be enough eh? Anyhow, Greg and I woke up this morning and trundled on down the creaking wooden steps of our host families turn of the century house. The shower itself is so short that I can’t stand up straight without hitting my head on the ceiling. Ah well, I got the job done. For breakfast we had fresh baked rolls, right out of the oven; my host mom said that she had been to busy to go to the bakery so she just baked them herself. We ate outside and had meats and cheese, jams, butters, and of course, nutella on our bread that spouted steam as we opened them up in the crisp morning air. He drove us the route that the tram takes to get to our meeting place for the next week; some kind of youth center in East Leipzig. In the morning we discussed the news, mainly the recent shootings at Virginia Tech. Lunch was Subway, last time I was to a subway was with Miranda; I miss her lots. Anyhows, the afternoon was filled with an asian forum and a discussion and debate on the topic of genocide. The Asian forum was focused mainly on Chinese- Japanese relations following the second world war and brought out some strong emotions from the people fom those countries. Its this part of WWII that people often forget about and don’t realize what happened there. It was a very heavy topic day. After wrap up, Greg and I left for our home for the week, stopping along the way to get some fries; thank goodness I know some German or else he would have ended up with bread. Ich mag Pommes-Frites! Later on, for supper we had some russian stew that was pretty good for stew and then we went to the mall at the train station and had a look around, its actually quite a nice place with a glass ceiling and 26 different tracks.
A first rev Powerbook g4, a reall piece of history there!
Todays tourguide, a member of the City planning committee and Frank
Asian Forum
Yay for Fries, they were Mcaine fries too
You can see the level of disrepair in East Germany
The room Greg and I share.
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