F-B: Caro, Leoni, me, Flo

 Two weeks ago, I had a class trip to Bonn, which is the old German capital (now it is Berlin). The trip was fun and informative. We left school in Zehdenick at 8:30 on Monday, and we did not arrive in Bonn until a little after 8 that evening. (I believe. I have a horrible memory.) We went to the Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland on Tuesday. That was my favorite [informatinal] part of the trip. I love learning about a country's history. The museum was about the Ost-/West- separation & reunition. Plus! There was a 1950's themed cafe (only a replica; non-functional) with a jukebox and a hippie's bus. If that's not cool, then I don't know what is.

During the trip, I stayed in a room with Leoni, Flo, Nastasia, and Caro. By the end of it, I was a bit exhausted because sharing a room [with so many people] is not something that I am accustomed to. Plus, that past weekend, I shared a room with three other girls at the Re-entry Orientation, so let's just say that I was freaking tired and wanted to be alone. Haha. But it was a nice week, nevertheless. 

L-R: Paul, Nick, Flo, Leoni, Luisa, Leah , Justin, Anna, Nastasia, me, Caro

We also visited Bonn's Weihnachtsmarkt on both Tuesday and Thursday, and we went to Köln's on Wednesday. Köln's was by far my favorite! I bought Mandeln (Almonds) at all three, and I have to say that it's a tie between Nutella and Vanilla Mandeln. Yum! Considering that the Weihnactsmarkts were in the middle of die Stadt (i.e. surrounded by shops), we shopped a lot. I bought some really cute and comfy house boots, mascara that I have been looking for, for about a year, an iPad mini case, fuzzy socks, and earmuffs. 

I love this wall in the museum! It translates to: "Your Christ, a Jew. Your car, a Japanese. Your pizza, Italian. Your democratic, Greek. Your coffee, Brazilien. Your holidays, Turkish. Your numbers, Arabic. Your signature, Latin. And your neighbor is just a foreigner?"

On Thursday, our group went to the Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung. There, we were given a presentation about unfair manual labor - how we pay for clothes, the store keeps most of the money, and the worker who actually made the clothes hardly receives anything. It was a bit boring, but I enjoyed the video that they showed us at the end. I have no idea how it was related to the presentation, though. It was about three people who exchanged to different countries to help them out in some way. 

We were outside the castle in Köln.