ja, ich weiss....

So I know it has been 16 days since I've last posted. My excuse is this:

I do not have wireless internet and the internet I can get at the school is most of the time
r e a l l y s l o w, so it was almost pointless to try to blog.

I am planning on uploading a selection of photos in the next couple of days though, so ya'll can finally see what I've been up to

My classes here have been great. They also have been a huge struggle. I knew i was never good at pronouncing german words before I came, but now I really know it. I can hear and read german pretty fine, but speaking it is another story. I have my first german test on friday. Wish me luck!!

Last weekend, my group went to Munich and then off to the fairy tale castle of Neuschwanstein in the foothills of the Alps. König Ludwig II started building this castle in the late 1860s and was dedicated to the showing of Richard Wagner's operas. Too bad Wagner died before he even set foot in the castle. Ludwig himself didn't live there long at all either. He had to abdicate his throne in 1886 before the castle was finished and mysteriously died (they found him drowned in a lake) shortly after.

Buttt yeah.... it sure is beautiful. At least Disney thought so because he modeled the Sleeping Beauty Castle after it.

That's all for now. I hope all is going well for you all out there!!!

z and y are crayyyyz

sooooo June is rainyyyy by the way.

And german keyboards switch the z and y soooo excuse my mistakes and i have onlz 13 minutes left to type this because iäm blogging at a youth hostel in Austria!!! in Salzburg which happens to be wehre Sound of Music took place!! awesomeee

So we got a train ticket for onlz 10 Euros each to get to Austra!! Awesome
This kid who was on his way back from Italz decided it would be a great idea to
ask us for a pen and talk to us for half an hour and show us this cool trick he could do with letters and a pig... idk prettz entertaining, but we all wanted to nap,... so i think he thought we were the lamest ever because we werent reallz talking (he could talk prettz good English though... so it was easier than talking in German)

We climbed up to a fortress which had to be like 700 meters above sea level. So we are thinking that we are soo tired todaz becuase of the thin air up in the mountains beccccause we are exhuasted and i only have 7 min leftttt!!

We went to the birthplace of Mozart today!!! It was turned into a pretty awesome museum. He had a reallz awesome life and we read these sweet letters he wrote home to his kids / wife.
Tomorrow we may see an Opera of his in Munich!! Hopefullz its not sold out.

ahmm so the computer is gonna kick me off. I> hope the June in the US is warmer and less rainz than it is here!!! #

I promise pictures will come soon.

yeahhh
tschau for now!!

oh yeah I'm here

So I don't really have internet access where I am. I'm writing this from my host's computer.
I'll start have practically consistent internets on Sunday, maybe?

Then I'll upload some pictures of the ALPS!!

but yeah. I'm here.... in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and its absolutely the most gorgerous place I've ever seen.
We didn't get here until 5 pm German time... which means that I was traveling for a grand total of 25 hours. Insane!! I was tired.
ahmmmm and still am
but me abby and kelli rented bikes today and biked all over our town for like everrrr. And it was awesome. and my butt hurts really bad now and I yelled " halt" (stop) like every 5 minutes so I could take like 5 gazillion pictures...

I met some sheep!! They were very friendly and I took another 5 gazillion pictures of them. They had bells around their necks so it sounded really lovelywhen they moved in a flock togethers.

Apparently there are only Mountain Goats on the Austrian / Italian side of the Alps.... sad story.

Germans love their dogs. They love them so much that they don't use leashes!!! Even on like trails and streets and such!!

Germans don't like other people... at least they pretend they don't. They don't smile when you smile at them... except if you are on a hike and then it's like awkward if they don't smile back....

I dropped my CIAS water bottle into a rushing torrent of water. oops. at least it wasn't me or my camera. Gorgerous river / gorge by the way. N0w there is a little piece of creative RIT in Bavaria!
Ryan Wilson / Mikey D.... when you come to Germany... look for it. Go to the Gorge at Garmisch Partenkirchen or search the Loisach River for it.... because you know, that 6 dollar water bottle means the world to me

Kelli's parents have a house here and its called "Haus Sonnenschein" (Sunshine house) It's like a hotel, I think? pretty awesome thoughhh

ahmm I'm going to experience the month of June about 6 hours before any of you do....

I'm going to hike up one of the Alps on Thursday (the Kramer) it snowed the other day, so I think we're only gonna go halfway??

My sister gave me the wrong adaptor. Apparently Ireland and Germany use different adaptors? ooops. Luckily Abby has one, so I'll borrow hers sooo that i can charge my camera / laptop and yeah.

weisswuerst is awesome too, by the way. Stop by Germany and have some... yeah.

Apparently Edelweiss is endangered? sad story. So I'll keep my eyes out for it and Abby and I are planning on breaking out in songs from Sound of Music if we spy any....

Munich tomoororoow and then Salzburg Wednesday!! woooo time to by some Mozart Chocolate :)

gate A5

the plan:

fly from Albany > to Washington > to Ottawa > to Frankfurt, Germany

Emma, Naomi, and all the flight attendants seem to think everything is going to go according to plan...

I didn't do anything stupid yet, so hopefully all will go according to plan and I'll be in Frankfurt at 630 AM German time (midnight 30 Home time) I'll be covering over 4000 miles in 14 hours wooohooo.

Plans for the week? No Idea :D gonna spend it in the foothills of the Alps with some pretty awesome friends from my german class!!

wowowoo

Then we'll be training it to Marburg, where I'll be studying.

tschau for now!