Tuesday, 19 May 2009 / Wednesday, 20 May 2009

Tuesday, the class and I went back to BMW for further presentations and evaluation of the plant. It was a lot of fun. It just was not a lot of exciting things to talk about nor do I really remember at this point, so we will just move on to the next day.

Wednesday came and gone with nothing real special. We had real class in our kindergarten room. After class, I headed back to the dorms with the rest of guys to try to plan out our weekends for the rest of time in Leipzig. Only Troy and I were the only ones who actually did some planning. During our planning process, we decided that we should not waste the weekend that was about to come, so we “planned” a trip to Berlin. The “plan” will be further explained in the upcoming days. Since my host family had left for the Baltic Sea today and were going to be gone until Sunday, I had dinner with the neighbors below where I lived. If I did not mention before, they used to be owners of a hotel and have very limited English speaking abilities. It made dinner very interesting. I am not sure what sort of meat that was served to me, but I did have potatoes and a reddish-purplish cabbage. The meal was not too shabby. After dinner, I went back up to the apartment to do laundry for the first time in a different country. The wash machine was easy to work and figure out since my host mother had gone over how it worked the night before. It was interesting though when it went on its final spin. It sounded like and aircraft was about to take off in the apartment. It wasn’t as loud, but it definitely reminded me of about to take off in Cincinnati a couple of weeks ago. I put my clothes in the dryer for about 10 minutes or so before I checked on them because I didn’t want them to shrink. The clothes were extremely hot, like I just pulled them from boiling water. It was then that I realized that the dryers in Germany were not at all similar to those in America, so I decided to lay my clothes out on the drying rack to dry overnight. I proceeded to then pass out watching an episode of South Park.