Lately...

Well I have been busy lately! School has been getting started and has been interesting! Well I pretty much have only had one class so far!

I’m taking that photography class and we met on Wednesday for 5 hours, Friday for 9 hours, and Saturday for 5 again. But pretty much all I have left is 2 class periods of it then a night of presentations and I’m done and I get 1 U.S. credit for it and to be honest it has been COMPLETELY worth it! I have learned SOOOO much already and I’m very glad I decided to take it! As soon as I get home and can save up I will be buying a nice fancy camera now that I know how to use one and the different settings and things you can do with one.

We spent the entire Friday at Petersburg which is just outside of Trier, this is where the other University is also. They have a GIANT adult size playground! We went for photography class, 7 of us piled into a tiny car and drove 15 min out to it and this is where we had lessons and we were able to practice using the cameras. We played on all the stuff and learned how to take awesome pictures!! Our professor even brought a picnic for all of us, it was a lot of fun. But after being in the beautiful weather all day we had to go back for another 4 hours to be in the dark room and learn stuff, so it was an exhausting day. Saturday we had the class again and did the same thing pretty much just in the studio instead of outside. I had to model for a shot L it was how to back light a model to have the light shine on the hair and a flower I had in my hair too, it was awkward but the photo actually turned out nice! Surprisingly!!!

 view of the park on Petersburg

 A giant slide that was only for adults, you have to climb up to the top and i was honestly scared to death when i finally got to the top, it was scary and dangerous.

 concert house with the tower of Luxembourg in the back ground

 Residential houses, very nice!

 Professor brought us a lunch we ate in the middle of class

 giant sand pit that after easter they turn on the water and it becomes a mud pit!!

 Smaller kid playground

 the water fall thing

 Pretty Flowers!

The tower of Luxembourg, we didnt go up in it, but next time we will

Now we have 2 weeks until we have to meet again for that class and in the next two weeks we have to take our own analog photos. We were giving the topic “2” and we each had to interpret a different way than figure out how to get that idea into a set of photographs to turn in in a presentation. Mine is going to be the time of 2. Like 2:00 am and 2:00pm. So I’m going to take 5 photos each at the exact time with one of the many giant clock towers in the background to clearly show the time, but I want to capture what the town is like a 2:00 (which is usually busy) one will be of people in the city center and all walking around, another of one of the outside cafes with everyone eating ice cream and drinking coffee, then one of the automobiles and people traveling, then the 2 random night shots. But we have to take them with an analog camera then we will learn how to develop them and make a presentation of them! It’s a lot of fun!!

Saturday night was our German Friend’s Birthday, his name is Sunday and he is super funny, he has a crush on Audrey and she is not interested but he will not give up J it’s cute, but we went to his house for a party with all of us from K-State and KU and some of our Friends from Russia, and Spain, and then a new girl from California who is studying anthropology. We hung out and spent most of the time teaching each other bad words or funny words in all the different languages. J we were up very late and with the time change it was a short night because we were excited to get up on Sunday for the big market.

The have a huge market and all the stores were open one Sunday before Easter and it was this past Sunday. So we went shopping and walking around all the tents they had set up. It was SUPER packed and busy, I have never seen so many people in one place. Audrey needed a new jacket and I wanted some flat tennis shoes like everyone wears around here. So we did some shopping and looking. Bought fresh food at the market and ice cream, lots of fun!

 Downtown on the Market Sunday

Very busy!!!

Today we were able to talk to the bank because our “secret numbers” (aka pin numbers) for our debit cards had not come in the mail yet, and we found the post office so we can mail stuff home! We also stopped at the train stations and had Cordula our roommate with us so we could figure out how to buy or tickets for our trip to Italy next week! I’m very excited to travel around more! We will be leaving Tuesday the 3^rd from here, very late at night like 10pm and going to Frankfurt, we will arrive there about 2 am and then we fly out at 6 am to Rome!!!!!!!!!! We will spend the day venturing around Rome then take an hour train to Orvieto, Italy where Melissa is to stay with her for most of the time, we plan on taking another day to look around Rome but because it will be Easter weekend we know it will be super busy! But it will be nice to have a place to stay and Melissa can show us all around! Then we will take the train to Venice for 3 days before we fly out of Venice to come home on April 10^th! It will be super fun I cannot wait!

 The fancy Recycling machine, you stick the bottles, and cans in, the machine scans it and then keeps track of what all you have

 When you press the Green button it spits out a ticket that tells you how much it was worth and you take it with you when you go to pay and it takes it off. :) America DEFIANTLY needs to do this!

My nails :) they were fun and messy!

Well tomorrow I have 2 new classes that start! My typography and layout class then my art class, so we will see how those go! I’m kind of nervous, but I know it will be ok!