A Super Fun Day

Today instead of having my regular school day, my class was invited to join another class from the same school (a more advanced class) to take a bus trip to Straßburg, France.  It was a fun-filled day there.  After the 1.25 hour bus trip, we arrived at the Parliament Building.  This was a once in a lifetime chance for me to be inside the building where all the important meetings take place.  Click here to see some pictures from my visit.  The building had signs all over that said no camera and no pictures, but I figure; hey, they allowed my camera through security so it's not my fault if the camera happened to go off a couple times :)

After two hours in the building were we had a tour and then met with Dr. So-and-so who gave us a lecture (all in German) over how politics work there.  When I could understand what he was saying, it was all pretty interesting.  Anyway, after all this, we took a quick walk to the lake front for a boat tour.  I understood it was to be 17 minutes, but it was in fact 70 minutes.  It was a beautiful, hot and sunny day here and as such I got a little burnt while on the tour.  I did not take any pictures form the tour as I had been to Straßburg in 2004 with Carsten and have pictures from then.  Plus, my hope is that Alica will come in August for a visit and my mom in September and then I would go then with both of them and have more pictures.  

I made new friend from the other class while on this trip.  No one from my class spoke to me, but this one woman named Lisa who is from Taiwan spent the day with me.  On the way back to bus after to boat tour, we stopped for a quick beer, which after being in the sun tasted so good!!

I made it home shortly after 5pm and Carsten arrived home from work about 6:25pm and then we were off to have dinner with his extended family.  It was all the same people as from Monday night, minus Carsten's mom since she is back at home now.  It was another great evening with his family, filled with conversation and yummy food.  Oh, and of course German beer!  I was even able to talk some with them, which made me feel quite proud of my progress in my class.

But now it is the end of the day and I am pooped.  Goodnight all!