Week 1
The jet lag was not much fun but it wore off fairly quickly. We started by applying for our german visa's. It was fairly quick, just filling out some paperwork and handing it to the AIB staff. The next thing was a lecture about how to behave with our host families. A few important points about how German culture may differ from American. That afternoon Professor Wasser took us to the House of History which is a museum of german history covering 1945 to 2000. On Wednesday we went on a hike up the Drachenfells. This is one of the hills in the Siebengebirge, the seven hills outside Bonn. The dragon reference comes from an old legend of a warrior that killed the dragon living in the hills and bathed in it's blood. Similarly to the Achilles myth, this made him invulnerable except for one weak point that eventually killed him. After the hike a group of us went to lunch and then met up with another group at a bar. This was my first taste of german beer. On Thursday we started classes...