Update from Hamburg

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It has been a nonstop two weeks so far. I don't think I would be feeling this way if I hadn't been enjoying a lot of the experiences so far. I want to spend as much time as possible at my community partner and have been enjoying hanging out with my roommates (the other two guys in the program). Many class events have been taking us across Berlin (and today, up to Hamburg to stay overnight), and everywhere we go I want to wander and explore the area. I want to find cool things I wasn't expecting there. In the time in between, I am keeping up with messages from home and my homework from my classes. Yesterday, while visiting Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in Oranienburg, we were caught in a flash flood and were walking in knee-deep water until we found shelter in a vocational school. Everyone in my class got out of the day wet, but safe. Being out wet all day may have contributed to me feeling under the weather now.

We arrived in Hamburg this morning, and visited the Kunsthalle Art Museum for about two hours. The Romantic painting "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog" by Casper David Friedrich was very cool to see. I had currywurst, which I would recommend in Germany, and sushi, which I wouldn't particularly recommend in Germany. Overall, Hamburg feels more relaxed than Berlin, and I am going to take a long slumber. Bye for now!

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Curtis Hanner said…
https://www.flickr.com/photos/60861613@N00/3599972619/
In 2008 "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog" was used as a promotional image with David Tenant as Hamlet at the RSC.
July 5, 2017 at 3:11 PM
Bryan said…
That's quite amusing. :)
July 14, 2017 at 9:45 AM
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