Happy New Year! It's hard to believe but with the New Year, I am almost at the halfway point with my time here in Germany. Time is flying by! I must admit that things haven't been too exciting here in 2008, but it's just the calm before the storm. There is one month of classes left and then I'm on break for 2 1/2 months. Of course I'll be filling up that time with as much traveling as possible. I spent the last day of 2007 cooking up a feast with others who were here in the Stift: Wedding Soup for our starter course, Duck, Red Cabbage, Potato Dumplings, and Stuffing for our main course and Chocolate Mousse for dessert. After dinner I met up with some other friends to bring in the New Year with fireworks. It was a rowdy time!
Our Ducks
I have had the good fortune of getting to know two wonderful people who live with me in the Stift and are from Brazil. They have become great friends and travel partners. Our time on the trains allows for great theological discussions (it never gets old), talks about life here sharing in the being a foreign student experience, and life in our home countries. Apparently, there is quite a German population of immigrants in Brazil, many of which still speak a dialect in their homes. For my two friends they felt it was important to make a trip to Bremerhaven where their ancestors would have departed and see what family information they could dig up at the Auswanderer Museum. Plus, in dreary January we thought maybe a chance to see the sea would make it a bit less dreary.
The sea was pretty depressing. It was freezing cold, cloudy, with a mixture of snow and rain coming out of the sky. We got to see the North Sea, but I think a trip back in the warmer months would leave a much better impression.
Just an old boat sitting in the harbor.
Our Ducks
Just an old boat sitting in the harbor.
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