Soooo, I've been here a whole weekend, and I spent it with my wonderful host family and I'm not just saying that because I know they read my blog, they are actually the sweetest people ever. Julia and I went to Cologne/Köln one day with her best friend and her family and we took the train to Dusseldorf the other day so I would be prepared to get to language camp on my own and then walked around the river a bit and it was a good relaxing weekend and this is what I have learned about Germany:
German "walk" signs have little walking men and/or bicycles on them and "don't walk" signs have men that aren't walking and its really cute and also DON'T EVER JAYWALK BECAUSE IT'S BAD. My host parents are very concerned for my street-crossing safety and I think Julia is on the verge of buying me one of those cute little leash-backpacks.
Germans are very direct in their speaking and nudity is okay in public.
I was warned that there are a lot of Muslim people in Germany which is very true (because there's a really big Turkish population) and I wasn't sure why I was especially warned about that and then I realized, it must seem like Americans hate Muslims (most of us don't, by the way).
Uhm, I had other things but I forgot. Anyways, I will upload weekend pictures when I am on my phone, probably tomorrow.
Also to look forward to tomorrow, the amazingly short story of my first day at language camp, but for now, I will sleep. Love you all!
QUOTE:"and I think Julia is on the verge of buying me one of those cute little leash-backpacks"
ReplyDeleteHAHAHA - can be :D :D :D