it just feels so good to listen to your own tunes and dance to your own rhythm.



i just worked out and listened to great jams. it can make a good day turn great.





felt like crap yesterday and didnt go to work, today i went to work and it went by so fast because there are not alot of people because of everyone taking vacations. i feel alot better today.


If this video uploads, it is a little treat to show you what germany was like after it lost, last week in the euro championship. Mind you, we are in an ITTY BITTY town... just imagine what it would be like in Berlin or Frankfurt... AHHH NUTS.

Back in Delmenhorst

Sooo now i am back in Delmenhorst, and currently working on a few things.
1. organizing my pictures, my four friends and I all put our pictures together, naturally we all have alot of the same ones.
2. uploading pictures on facebook, for some reason they have failed to upload, twice, third time might be a charm
3. blogging of course
4. reading, "Disney Wars" only business kids or people who love disney would read this, its soo interesting, about the different take overs and what happened after walt died.
5. studying for the GMAT. I was planning on taking it over here in Germany , but its like 100 more dollars to take it in another country, so I am going to try and take it as soon as I get back to Toledo.
6. unpacking and laundry
7. taking naps
8. running and biking again, well i havent yet, but this week I will start... again.
9. remembering all the german I forgot while studying. ahhh GERMAN!
10. uploading my zune and cleaning it up, because i have so many repeat songs.


anyways, as you can see i am really busy.... plus i start work tomorrow again.


my last few days in Oestrich-Winkel at the EBS was really fun. Hopefully I can upload pictures here and tell you all about them. BUT WHY OH WHY is my computer not letting me upload pictures.... DANG! Anyways, we had a test on Thursday, I think it went fine, our Lecture on Wednesday was so good, it was all about cultures and everything and we played a game where the end was the same but everyone had their own rules, going side by side with how cultures affect the outcomes and working together. thursday's lecture was about supply chain management and we studied really great companies that were relevant to our lives, I enjoyed this alot. Then thursday night we all went out in Mainz, near Frankfurt with our professor, to a club called the Rat Cat. It was a hip hop club and we danced until 4 am! it was soo awesome but was not awesome was waking up the next morning and cleaning and saying good bye to everyone... it was sad.

Then i headed back to Delmenhorst in First class on the trains... (there was a sale and it was cheaper than the reg class) and it was awesome, i felt some what famous. haha then I went to an American/ German Fourth of July Party! It was nice, but it was sooo weird to not be in the USA for Fourth of July... no fire works, no licorice and no parade... but oh well.


Today and yesterday it felt like I was out at the lake house, because I relaxed and read out in the sun and drank water and just chilled... it was so nice because I felt like I was always running from one thing to the next at EBS...


i will try and do photos later this week, hopefully it will work.


ciao until then.


PS. i am about half way done with this summer, its so weird. and its gone soo fast! i cant believe it! But i am so excited for this fall!

ok no pictures, blogger is being weird. i promise some later...



so we went to frankfurt on friday/saturday for dancing and shopping. its like a newyork city.



then tiina and kristi and i went on a river boat cruise (half off for students! we always get the deals) and we saw a ton of castles from the middle ages, got really awful sunburns, and enjoyed the breeze.


then we went to the game.



germany lost. but we are still fans. check us out...



and then hopefully this video will upload. this is the reaction of the germans... hahah

pictures.... finally

yay pictures...

MUNICH....

empty beer glasses. beer is like water there.. YUM. Chinese pagoda in Englisher garten...
grace stuck in the crappy hot train...
stuck in Igolstadt... crap... then we were riding first class..






sex and the city girls.... we love eachother..
at the Germany vs. Austria game...
walking down the street....
smoking kills. duh.
At the airport training area...

sorry for the lack of pictures. i have a bunch but it wont let me up load them... so be prepared for a bunch in a few days when i will try again.


we went to the Lufthansa headquarters yesterday and it was awesome, but the pictures do much better than I could with words... i will try later.

byeee

Sex and the City.... Munich

Wow. Not only was this weekend a ball of hilarious laughs and side aching chuckles, it was full of surprises and upgrades. Haha me and the “Sex and the City, International Version” went to munich. Me, Kristi are from the states, Tiina is from Finland, Grace from Singapore and Thera is from Germany/America. We encompass all corners and many languages. It did not stop up from laughing at almost everything. Man, its been awhile since I have laughed so hard. Haha anyways, so we first traveled to munich there and back from about 25 Euros. This is unbelievable and we did it very well. We had to take slow trains and switch a lot, but it made it so funny. We arrived in munich around 4oclock and headed to an apartment that was Thera’s relatives. We freshened up and headed down town to shop and eat and drink beer. During dinner at a cute cheap Chinese place a guy walk past with an “akron “ tshirt. I was like, “hey I am from Akron” and we ended up talking for a bit, needless to say I met someone who went to Litchfield/firestone/walsh while I was in Munich. Haha small world. We went to the hofbrahaus and drank amazing beer and watched the Germany Portugal game. IT was a big deal. After that we headed back to the apartment. The next morning we woke up and had breakfast together, Nutella (spreadable chocolate) and bread of course. We then headed back to the city center for a tour of the city, FREE!! Even though this was my third time in munich I still learned so much. We ate then headed to the Englisher Gartens to see the Surfers and Chinese Pagoda, plus the naked part of the park. We died laughing at them. So funny. Oh yeah we were sitting on the grass and these two older men walk by and I whisper to Kristi , “those guys have to be America, you can tell by their tennis shoes and khaki shorts” The guys heard me and said, “You can not!” “We are not wearing tacky shorts” we of course died laughing! Haha oh American Tourists. Haha After that we went to Munich university and saw this small memorial about the White Rose Society, which was a group of students who wrote these pamphlets against the Nazis propaganda, but they were found and beheaded. One copy was found and sent to Great Britain and GB printed almost 5 million copies and instead of bombing the cities with bombs they dropped leaflets from the sky. It was crazy. And really cool.

After that we headed back to the apartment and made ourselves a huge great dinner. It was nice to relax and chill. Saturday we headed to Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial site, again I had been there before, but it was different this time. I remember last time, I went into one of the religious memorials and found a bible. I loved it, because it had been almost 2 weeks without mine because I left mine in America, I def remember sitting in that church and just praying so hard and god revitalized my soul. This time, I focused more on the people’s testiomonies throughout the camp with the audio tour guide. It was really cool and different to hear American, German, British and other perspectives of liberation, beatings, newspaper journalism and everything inbetween. One thing is for sure I had goosebumps the whole time.

Now after Dachau we jumped on the train to head back to our lovely home in Oestrich-Winkel, literally a very very very small town outside of Wiesbaden. On our first connection train, we got stuck, they made everyone get out of the train and then we sat around and was going to wait for a bus, obviously one bus couldn’t fit everyone in the train so we just waited. Then they piled us back on the train and we headed backwards to the station we had just come from. We were told to get another connection to get to where we needed to go. Frantically, we were missing all of our connecting trains as the time went on. We then found a train that went directly to Frankfurt and it was an ICE train (the bullet trains) and we made sure we could get on it because if we didn’t we were going to be stuck. Here are some of our excitement for our fast train ride (which cost anywhere from 50-90 euros on up for a ride, we were for 7 euros each!) then we arrive in Frankfurt and planning on going to stay with Thera’s other relative (thank god for her connections around here) we headed up to the service point to make sure we could still use our same ticket in the morning because of their mistake we couldn’t get to our final destination on time. The guy said, oh well we can pay for a taxis to get you back home ASAP. We almost died. So we arrived back in our own beds around one oclock with a taxis paid for by the german trains. We were def riding first class, all for 7 EUROS! No lie, we were lucky and god was providing for us.

Ohhh crazy times.

This week agenda- Monday we are going to visit the Lufthansa Headquarters and then we have some lectures and then we are playing a computer stimulated game like selling and marketing a product. It counts as 50% of our grade. Next weekend, not sure but we want to go on a boat trip down the Rhine, hopefully we can work that out, students get such good deals around Europe, its so nice. Then next week we are going to Luxemboug for a day to visit the European Court of Justice, for the EU. Its big deal. I am so excited.

European Business School

SO i am now in Wiesbaden studying at the European Business School.

www.ebs.de its one of the oldest private universities in Germany.
There are 14 students from Singapore, Canada, Finland, UK, Chile, Uruguay, Illinois and Iowa and some from TOLEDO! :) here are some photos of our apartment and our first days here. Its so gorgeous here, I fell in love with Germany all over again. I have two videos that I might try and post too. its soo awesome.

okk my pictures wont load. I will try again tomorrow... they are really cool. BUMMER. our internet is so weird sometimes.


allison