Field Trips this week

Hiii!

So this week we went on lots of adventures! I love our class! Its so much fun! And the leaders of the trip are super cool as well. We have one leader that is a student that went on this trip last year who is kind of like a liason, his name is Mikal. Uwe is an older man that has led the trip and program for many years. Professor Green is the history professor and has gone on the May term trip every year since it began (a long time ago!) Professor Levin is the English professor, hes younger and kenny says hes cool. Professor Jaan is the man, we all love him! He's super nice, and wants us to all experience the best parts of Europe. He know the best places to take us on field trips, and is very helpful for our projects, and hes always on the look out for things that will help our individual work and sends us those pictures.

The week began more relaxed in order to recover from the weekend trips. We generally just napped after class. There was a festival and flee market similar to Super Sunday in Media on Monday. We got really cool jeans for 12 euros! Tuesday was another nap day. Then we went to the gym / Spa. Oh my goodness, it is absolutely the greatest thing in the world, and the US needs to up its game! There is more workout equiptement than you can imagine! I could literally work out and go to the spa all day everyday! The spa has thermal pools with jets and hot tubs, and tons of other stuff! Its so relaxing. If you ever get the change, go to this spa! Its within walking distance of the Klouschter, which is where we are living. Apparently people in Europe view medical issues differently than we do in the US. They doing have many over the counter drugs like Advil, they have herbal remedies and such. The one super cool thing about this is that people can get perscriptions from their doctor to go to this spa. There are also psychologists at the spa you can go see. If I am ever on the verge of a mental breakdown, this is definitely where I will be heading :D

Wednesday:
It was pouring rain! But we decided to take our field trip anyways. This was a program fieldtrip so all the classes went. We headed to Trier. We spend a shorter time there becuse the weather was bad, but I would like to go back if I ever get the chance to spend more time there! It was so cool! But we only got to explore the main part of the city. Allie Diana and I went on the guided tour with some other Clarkies, but most people didn't want to do the tour. It was nice to get a historical background. Trier is a German city that was taken over by the Romans, it has history dating back to 17 B.C.! There is a ruin in the main part of the city which is the Roman city gate, it was huge!!!! There was also a Roman Bishops Palace with 9 foot thick walls that we went to see! It has been converted into a church now. But the cool thing about that is that it can withstand an earthquake. Karl Marx was born and raised in Trier, there's a museum there in his dedication. Kenny bought the communist manifesto. We got ice cream before leaving, it was delicious! Right before leaving we talked to professor Jaan for a few minutes. He had a bag with chocolates on it, so I asked him what he got. He said he bought a Laptop. We all laughed because he bought a laptop in this city, and was carrying it in a chocolate bag. He then said he also bought chocolate. Needless to say we were all confused. He then asked me if I knew anyone that was pretty good with computers, and I told him Eugene is. SO the next day in class he gets out his laptop, and asks Eugene to set it up for him (which isn't unusual because we often view photos for our projects during class). Eugene opens up the laptop, and theres chocolate inside! The keys were chocolate! haha it was in a box that looked like a laptop! He's such a jokester :D
We went to the "Cafe de Paris", which is the only bar in Mondorf-les-bains, it is very close, and always a good time!

Thursday:
We had a class field trip to Saarburg, Germany, and then Remich, Luxembourg. Saarburg was a smaller city in a more rural area. It was totally surrounded by vineyards. Needless to say they made a lot of wine. It was a very cute area with a little river running through and lots of birdges. We walked around and found some nice suveniers. Then we got ice cream. Then we decided to walk around more, and we ran into Jaan. He was sitting at a little cafe. He wanted to order Apple Strudel for all of us (again hes soo nice!) He also showed us that he finally found the infamous "Blood Sausage". EW haha Kenny, Eugene, and Allie tried it at dinner. It looked really gross.

We are going to the gym and spa as much as humanly possible in order to get the most bang for our buck, because it was pretty expensive.