Weekend Experiences

I headed to Bonn on Saturday for a day trip with the other international students. It was only about 2 hours with the bus. Haus der Geschichte, a large history museum (primarily post WWII) was our first stop and we spent several hours there, but we easily could have spent more. It was interesting; they had....

*a WWII US soldiers guidebook on Germany and how to act in Germany
*JFKs actual notes to himself on how to say, 'Ich bin ein Berliner' (I am a Berlin citizen) during his Berlin visit. (The Germans still laugh about that because by including the word, ein, he actually said that he was a jelly doughnut.)
*Actual uniform of a concentration camp prisoner
*Many official documents with Heuss and Adenauers signatures (and other important politicians)
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Then, some of my friends and I figured out the subway to go further into the city to the main market, where the famous University Bonn and Rathaus is.

I was craving mexican and we actually found a really good mexican restaurant called 'tacos'...surprising I know. And just down the street was Beethovens house. We went there and we were amazed to walk through his former living quarters. (He was born in a room in that house.) They also had most of his instruments including his famous piano. What was really creepy was...a sculpted mask of his face (called a 'totenmask', dead mask) of his face only 12 hours after he died.

Sunday...went to church, did laundry, yoga, student restaurant called Astarix (good!) and saw Brokeback Mountain in German.

This week...more language courses and orientation stuff!