Almost all caught up!!!
Today (Thursday……well, technically it’s after 12am here….so it’s Friday….but
I’m blogging as if it’s Thursday….cause for you Americans…it is!)
P Col had to leave early this morning to catch his train to
Eisenach (lucky….). He is spending a few
days there (without us) before he travels back to Los Estados Unidos. We definitely missed him today L.
Travis and I met for breakfast this morning and then we had
to go to Deutsche Welle (again!) for a final meeting about a few things. We met with some distribution people to talk
about Wartburg receiving DW programming.
Basically, the plan is that Wartburg will get a big dish and we will
show DW programming, along with our original programming (WTV8 News,
SportsKnight, etc.) The goal is to have
English programming on one channel and German programming on another channel
(to reach out more to our international students). After we got done discussing that (I really
had no idea what was going on…Jim really needed to be there…) we talked with a
lady about some tools that the German department at Wartburg can use for
teaching. On the Deutsche Welle website
there is a “Learn German” option that is completely free. It starts at a beginner level and gets more
advanced. There are vocab lessons,
exercises, websoaps (Jojo), newscasts, and many other tools to help people
learn German! We felt like the German
department would really enjoy this, especially since some comm arts students
will need to know some German if they are interested in pursuing the DW
Academy! I told Travis I might use his
iPad to download all the lessons to listen to on the 9 hour flight
tomorrow! I’d be fluent in no time!!
After that meeting (our last one!!!!!) Travis and I headed
back to the marketplace in downtown Bonn to do some shopping. I really enjoyed it, even though we didn’t
have a ton of time to really do a lot of shopping. We both agreed that we are coming back some
time with empty suitcases and going shopping!!
I can’t wait! I found this SUPER
CUTE pair of orange heels (very classy!) but they didn’t have my size!! L Travis and I were both really disappointed
because they would’ve been perfect!!
That’s ok…I’m sure I’ll find another pair somewhere!!
After shopping for a little bit we decided to take a lunch
break…..which….I’m going to save today’s lunch for its own post….yeah….it was
that crazy.
Once we were done with lunch we did a little bit more
shopping. Then we had to get a taxi and
go back to our hotel to pick up our luggage, then DW one last time to pick up a
hard drive of video/pictures, and then finally to the train station. Since our flight is so early tomorrow morning
(Friday) we are staying in Frankfurt for the night. Our hotel is actually in the airport…which is
really nice! Our flight is at 8:30am….so
very early! I’m trying to stay up as
late as I can so I hopefully sleep during most of the 9 hour flight!! It will be weird leaving Germany at 8:30am
and arriving in Chicago shortly after 10am!
We then have a small layover at O’Hare and then our 45 minute flight to
Cedar Rapids is at like 2:45pm….so I should be back in Waverly between 5-6pm…HOPEFULLY!!!
Tonight Travis and I ate dinner in the restaurant at the
hotel and it was very nice. We then
wandered around the airport for a little bit, but all the stores were closed.
That’s basically it for today/tonight! Just busy catching up on the blogging and
charging my cell phone so I can let everyone know when I get back to
AMERICA!!! (Fingers crossed they let me
back into the country….)
Oh yeah! Tonight at
dinner I heard someone at a table right by us say something about Cedar Rapids,
Iowa. So when Travis and I were done
eating we walked over to the table and asked them if we had heard them right
and we did! One of the guys at the table
is from Cedar Rapids (or close to there) and he is on a business trip! What are the odds that at a hotel in Germany
we find someone from Cedar Rapids?! We
were talking and I told him I go to Wartburg and he said his son was going to
go to Wartburg to play football about 10 years ago but then “the steroids story”
broke out and he decided to go to the University of Dubuque! I was like “steroids?!” Sounds like I need to do an investigative
story!!! So yeah…small world! Oh, and he is on the same plane as us in the
morning!!
I’m sure I’ll do a few more postings this weekend, so no
worries, the fun doesn’t end here!! Thanks
for reading!
More tomorrow (hopefully)!
Shelby*
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