Back to sch..... nothing?

Its a weird feeling seeing people getting ready for back to school when, for the first time that I can remember, I will not be going back to school on the first Tuesday of September. It's kinda nice knowing I don't have to go back to tests and textbooks but its also a little freaky still not knowing what I'm going to be doing 5 months from now.

I had my second interview since I graduated, the first being a total bomb. I have another interview tomorrow (just for a seasonal position though). Two more possible opportunities popped up today through people I know so things are starting to look up after 2 weeks of absolutely nothing :)

The last day

Tomorrow is our last day here and what an experience this has been. I will take back more than just memories and pictures. I'll take a less wasteful attitude for sure since people here never waste anything and its something North America really needs to survive. I'll also take back a better relationship with Leanne since we've spent every moment with eachother for the past six weeks. You really get to know almost everything about a person when you see them all day and can't just go home if you feel bad. And I love her more every day I spend with her :)

We went to the zoo today and I took so many pictures so here's one I thought was cool. I forget what these things are called but there was one in the movie The Lion King.



See you all back home!

I like ducks

So i've heard some pretty crazy news back home lately about my sister's plane getting messed up and losing her luggage and my cousin's car getting pelted by rocks from some stupid kids, but I fortunetly it looks like everything is working out alright and everyone is safe so that's really good!

We've been travelling around the area here the past few days and I've seen some pretty cool and crazy things. We were staying at Norbert's cousin's house a couple days ago and and couple weeks ago they had a huge hail storm which was much bigger than the one I was in. They had hail almost as big as baseballs! There was cracked windshields and roofs destroyed all over the place. Every second house has a tarp over it to keep out the weather.

We also went to the Black Forest which is where my aunt lived for a while. Here's a picture from a nice church we went to there:



We had to give up our nice car a few days ago because you can only rent one for 30 days and the one we have now isn't that great but that's alright because we're only here for a few more days anyway. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone back home soon. I miss you all and I'll have lots to show you!

Slowing down

Well we're into our last week and a half here and I'm going to answer a few comments right now.

Its nice to know I'm missed back home and I really can't wait to show everyone all the pictures I've taken. At the moment I'm at 764 pictures and two and a half hours of video. I've tried lots of interesting foods like Viener Schnitzel in Vienna but have yet to have a Frankfurter in Frankfurt. I had this spinach soup kind of thing and it was actually pretty good considering I hate spinach.

We took a tour of an old monastary today. The tour guide was a rather large phone-shaped device. It was interesting and here's a picture from there:



This is the dining hall. It once had big tables but there's chairs in it now because they use it for stuff.