Week 1

Wow! Already a week gone. This first week has been good. I got myself ajusted and did the touristy thing. Went into the town of Hamburg with public transportation. S-bahn. I guess that could be traslated to something like a street car.

Last week I also went to the Beatlemania Museum. I wanted to go there real bad; and I went and enjoyed it. Thank goodness there was German & English written; I got more out of it being able to read the English. It was all about the Beatles and the concerts they had in the "St. Pauli" distrect. there were the Repperbahn ist also.

It is still cold; last night it was -13*C. The Alster ( the river I think) is frozen; so one can now skate on it. It's pretty neat , that sort of reminds me of Ottawa where the Rideau Canal is. It was once the largest skating suface ever in canada or maybe even the world I'm not too sure about that actually. The Alster had not been frozen in almost 10 years or so. This year all of Europe actually has not been as coild. It is a different cold than I am used to however because of the humity and such. Nevertheless I saw snow which is something I missed from Naniamo.

On Thursday we drive to Harz it is about 3 hrs away. The town/ city is actually called Hasselfeld or something like that. My aunt and her friend my cousin and his friend and myself are going, as Friday is a Holiday for the kids here in Hamburg. So we're going to Harz and will be going sledding. They rended a cottage type thing and willl be there until Sunday. I am looking forward to that.

A week later hoping maybe Thursday I will be taking the train to Dieburg; to my other Aunts place. I am looking forward to that already as well. I already have something I may end up doing there as far as "work". I will be teaching kids at the grade 4 level so maybe between 9 and 11 years old then. English. So I've been googling ESL English and trying to get a plan and get some ideas of what I can do with these kids. I'm looking forward I alrealdy have some neat ideas. I'm looking forward to this. That may be a six week or so thing. Have yet to find out; how it will work out but I reckon it will be super fun.

Other wise things are going well. I know from Dieburg we will also be going to Saarland; my Aunt knows someone there I actually met her last time I was in April. She is pretty cool So we'll go visit her. I still have to figure out when and how I will go to Berlin and stuf.. I'm sure thought it will all work out.

So That is all!