Two Months Later.... ~ February 4th

Over two months later, and it looks like I've been neglecting my blog, ha. Sorry about that. So what have I been up to since my last post? Well....



December

• Said goodbye to the Valpo group :-(
  
• Christmas shopped at the Christkindlesmarkt


• Baked Christmas cookies!


• Took my first German engineering final


• First big snow


• Got to see a real Christmas tree from the Black Forest, all lit up with candles!


• First Christmas away from home


• Had venison stew for Christmas dinner


• Ate lots of chocolate


• Wandered around an empty dorm, got excited when I bumped into another person for the first time in three days.

January

• Felt like a little kid at the Natural History Museum in Frankfurt am Main. Heehee Dinosaurs!


• Went to a Gospel Choir concert at the New Years Eve Gala. WooHoo!!


• Rang in 2010 with fireworks, champagne, singing, and wonderful friends


• Read a 1000-pg book in 4 days. Gotta love Ken Follett.


• Snow Snow Snow!!! for a week


• Ice skating!! and climbed the Achalm


• Visited Einstein's birthplace and saw the tallest church cathedral in the world (Ulm)


• Spent a magical two days in Freiburg and the Black Forest
  
• Flew off to Ireland


• Laid siege to the medieval castle of Killkenny....ha. jk. Just ate lunch there.


• Hiked over 20 km around the Killarney National Park


• Went through Kinder chocolate withdrawal. Sorry Cadbury. You're not good enough.


• Saw the western-most point in Ireland.


• Splashed in the Atlantic Ocean for the first time in 4 years.


• Biked around the Aran Islands


• Saw a 2000 B.C. fortress. Wow. Awesome!


• Hung out with awesome people in my Inis Mor hostel (think thriller movies, awesome homemade chef-worthy dinner, rainy days, and story-telling over good Irish beer)


• Watched the sunset over Galway.

February

• Woke up at 4 am for my flight back to the continent.


• Tried to fathom how it could be almost spring in Ireland but still deep in winter in Germany.


• Woke up (literally) to a new roommate


• Did massive amounts of laundry


• Started on this blog.....

And here we are! There's a massive amount of photos I've posted on Picasa, but some of them turned out really well, so I hope you have some time to look through them.

Off for walk!

~Erin