I put colored pins in the places Ive been and clear ones in the places I want to go. You cant see those in this picture though. I've always wanted to actually do this though so I'm happy this is a new decoration in my room.
Thursday night was my second German class and it went okay. I got frustrated at one part when I seemed to be the only person that didn't understand this question we were asked so that is hard but it just made me remember the frustration I have with learning languages.
Friday was an interesting day to put it simply. It was a beautiful day so I went for a run in the woods. I thought I was on the path I have taken before but I was NOT. I ended up very far away and came out into a clearing and saw nothing but trees and fields. It was one of those "oh shit" moments for sure. I just kept going in the direction I thought I should go to get back but ended up off all paths in the middle of the woods. There were deer jumping past me and again....oh shit. So I just kept going until finally I found the edge again and came out to find a hill so I ran up that hoping to be able to see something familiar. There was a town but as I looked it over, I realized it was definitely not Ramersbach. I found a path and just started walking hoping to find a road and someone that might be able to point me in the right direction. A lady was walking her dog and I asked if she knew which was Ramersbach was. Sure enough she did, but she spoke not a word of English. So she told me to walk with her and she would show me. I was actually pretty proud of myself and how much of what she said I could understand and at the very least, my attempts at responses. She asked where I was from, what I was doing in Ramersbach, what city I came from, how long have I been here, how long will I be staying, what family I am staying with, etc. I was able to understand most of what she was saying and responded as best I could. As it turns out I was probably a 10 minute drive outside Ramersbach by the time I had found her. She walked me to her house in Phinxt, about 2 towns over and drove me back to Ramerbach. I was amazed at how nice she was and how willing she was to help out a dumb lost American.
It was an interesting experience to say the least....
Friday night I went with Tina and Benni to Bonn and we shopped around and went and got some chinese food at a Dim Sum place and walked around a bit. It was so nice to be in a city. I like Bonn and hope to hang out there more often. We walked to a cocktail bar called Shakers and it was happy hour so we got these ridiculous cocktails for pretty cheap.
Their friends Simon and Fee came and met us and then their other friend Phillip came and we all had another drink and then headed off to this "kirmus" which is a carnival basically. There was food, beer, games, rides, the whole 9 yards. Basically like Northbrook Days on crack.
We went on a bunch of rides and walked around and since the Haribo factory is in Bonn there was this big tent with basically every possible Haribo candy you could buy. You get a bag and just pick out what you want and it was one of the craziest things I have ever seen.
This is Fee with all the candy. We all loaded up :)
Afterwards, we had to catch the last train to Remagen where we had parked the car to get back to Ramersbach. We almost missed the train. We took a tram from the kirmus to the train station and had to run from the tram to the station and just made it. Then Remagen is about 15-20 minutes away from Ramersbach.
it was a fun day but I just am tired and sore now...
Here's just another look at Ramersbach! This is from the upstairs bathroom window, pretty.
Tschüss!
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