Yagaboosh!

On Monday we went to Heidelberg. It was a long trip, and when we got there we headed directly to the University. I wanted to see the student prison (where they locked you up if you broke rules, and only let you out for tests), but it was closed that day. Frau Stubbs wasn’t feeling well, so we slowly made our way to a view of the castle. We didn’t go up because it was going through repairs.

When we got to the river, the group split in half. One half went to the Philosopher’s Walk, and the other half went shopping. I tossed a coin, and then Danyelle and I went to the Walk. It was really annoying to get to, because of a stone path heading up. And we were out of water. After we got to the top and walked around for a bit, we decided to go back down and find food and water.

We went to a place where Danyelle was getting food, and as  we waited I looked out the window and saw someone using an EeePC 700! I was pretty excited, since I haven’t really seen them here (but every other Netbook is everywhere).

After we met up as a group, and were heading to the train, we realized we were late. We started to run to try and make it… and it left as we got to the platform. I think Frau Stubbs tells this part of the story better, so I’ll just link you to http://clevelandgapp2009.blogspot.com so you can read it on your own.

The next day was school, but I don’t really have to go to classes any more. I showed up closer to 8, and hung out with Danyelle (who also had no classes). After school, we went to the swimming pool, then went to my house to watch Spirited Away. At 7, there was a goodbye barbeque, which was a lot more fun than the welcome barbeque.

Wednesday, there was school. And it was raining. I wasn’t too happy to walk to school in really bad rain, but I had to. After school there was a tour of Nagold (which started in the rain, but got progressively better). I still don’t understand why we got a tour on the second to last day, but whatever. At the end, Danyelle, Amanda and I split off and got some food. We ran into Isabella (Sandra’s sister) and stayed with her until we got home, at which point us three headed off with Sandra and Madelaine to the Stern Center.

The first thing we did was find out if we could get a ticket for Danyelle. Which we could. Then we went shopping. I stayed with Danyelle and Amanda as they wandered through different shops. I finally gave in to my headache, and sat down to take a nap for 30 minutes. After waking up we went to get ice cream, then got in line for Harry Potter. It was a great movie, although we didn’t really understand as much of it as I would have liked. We got home around 12:30 (happy birthday had been sung to me in the car), and we went to bed.

All right, finally caught up. Time for today. We woke up at 5:15 AM, and left for EuropaPark at about 6:30. Our group was Madeleine, Amanda, Danyelle, Sandra, and myself. It takes about two hours to drive there, which takes us right through the Black Forest. The entire park is in German and French, with a small side of English here and there. We got there early, which worked out fine because we ran into Glenn, Maddy, Melanie, and Michael. Glenn came with us, and we went on a ton of roller coasters. There was this one blue roller coaster that had a huge loop and three separate corkscrews. It also had a heartbeat monitor on your harness, which was pretty cool. There was also this ride that was completely inside a dome, and it was space-themed. Danyelle, Glenn, and I kept joking about how it was like Portal. Then there was a coaster that had you spin around as well as all the quick falls and whatnot. It was a blast!

For lunch I had a pretty bad Pizza (pepperoni shouldn’t come with mushrooms!) At about four our drivers got tired, and decided to take us home. I packed up for the trip to Munich, and did some stuff on the computer. Then I posted this.