Germany Week 20—Snow!!! Regensburg and Neumarkt
Dear all:
Week 20-- wow that seems like a long time. Got back into
school on Tuesday, I was happy we had Monday off so I could catch up with my jetlag. Enjoyed going back to school and brought my
students T-shirts compliments of Sue Semrau’s FSU basketball team. Thanks, Sue!! See below the picture (#1) of some
of the students. I edited it to protect
their identities.
The next part of my news is snow. We had to leave school early--no afterschool
buses-- Thursday because of the snow. See
pictures below.(#2 at school--#4 across the street from our house) Gregg drove to me very
slowly and he always moves over to let other cars go ahead of him to pave the
way. We are still travelling the
autobahn most of the time as it is the better driven and clearer path. We have
seen quite a few cars smashed up or on the side in a ditch from losing control
of their car.
Friday was a big holiday here as it was Three Kings’
Day. Most places were closed. We had half a day at school and spent the
rest of the time doing in-service.
We decided to go to areas around here this weekend. We took the train to Regensburg (#8) Saturday it
is only a 20 minute ride away to the mall and had a blast. I was looking for after Christmas decorations
on sale trying to find a German building for my Christmas town with German writing
on it but it seems that they put up all of their Christmas stuff or it was
already sold. It was very crowded but we
had a good time looking and yes -of course- I found something to buy. lol
After that we decided to venture to Neumarkt (Pic # 5 & 6 of the town) —it is only about
10 miles from our house. We were very
surprised with that town. It was huge
with lots of stores that are floors and floors up like it was in Taiwan. Had a good time exploring.
Our weather has been erratic- in a 20 minutes span we went from
sunshine to 30 miles an hour wind gusts with rain to lightning, rain, sleet and
snow all at the same time. I have put
some pictures of the snow and Gregg’s picture (#3)with only shorts on – he wanted
me to caption it-- “We’re not in Florida
anymore!!” Of course, I know that it has
been very cold in Florida this week. But
you guys warm up to 60 or so-- we don’t-- what we start out as, we stay. But I have enjoyed seeing the snow fall and even
went outside to catch some flakes on my tongue.
(#2) See Gregg at his golf course covered in snow. (#7)
That’s all for this week.
Hope you have a great week!
Hugs from Germany,
Susan
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