Brandenburg....

Wow, its been a fun-fill five (Lol =o=) days in Germany and I really can't believe time has flown so fast D:

So today we all headed off to Brandenburg with some of our German homestays and had a tour of the old, old, old....... old city. The history of Brandenburg starts all the way back to medieval times. The city was first inhabited by Barbarians after they had defeated the Roman empire then the city was Brandenburg was taken over by the Slavs. After a period of time, the barbarians (now called the Germans) pushed back and took over the city once again. This kind of fighting kept repeating for a few centuries until Frederik the Great got his great army to conquer everything.

Brandenburg itself was extremely interesting, even though the weather seemed to have disagreed with us. Even though it wasn't really that cold, the wind came along and everyone wrapped themselves in their jackets trying to hide from the wind's terror...

So our day started off as usual at EHG and we as usual walked to the Werder train station and took a train to Brandenburg. At the train station, we were greeted by Frau Wlosnewski (don't worry, I had trouble saying too) and given tourist-y things like maps and information booklets. After drinking my first can of Red Bull we all set off in the direction of St. Peter's cathedral. At the cathedral, we were greeted by the pastor and he told us the history and the story of Brandenburg and of course the cathedral. After that he demonstrated the echo power of the cathedral by singing to us from the crypt. The echo power was so great that we all heard his singing from far away xD. We then had a tour of the cathedral and were shown a lot of the cathedral's awesome features.

We then had a group photo in front of the Cathedral and split up into two different groups. One of the groups went to St. Katherine's Church and the other group went to the Monastery.

At noon the groups got together again and we all went down to the river Havel. Some of us (like me :D) got into canoes and canoed along the Havel. For me it was great fun (even though I was stuck in a boat with four girls that couldn't canoe and we spent half the time zig-zagging everywhere) and by the looks on people's faces, they did too. While some of us were exploring the river, the television crew that had been following us conducted some interviews about our experience in Brandenburg. Hopefully we can get a copy of their story.

We then all went ashore and started egg rolling. The point of egg rolling, was to roll your eggs down these paths and make it to the end of the track without breaking your egg... There were three tracks to roll your egg down and they all had a a different level of difficulty. The great thing about egg rolling was that if you were able to roll your egg successfully down all the tracks, you had to eat them.

Sadly now, it was time to leave Brandenburg. We all packed up and headed towards the bus stop. Everyone was tired and ready to go home but that didn't stop us from getting excited and running for the playground. Everyone rushed for everything and I must admit, this was one cool playground. It had rope swings for four people, a rocking pirate ship and a wierd snake thing that did something. Everyone played on something. Frau Zimmer then told everyone that it was time to go and so we all stopped playing and sadly walked away from the playground. We then turned around to see Herr Howell, Frau Ankersmit and Frau Zimmer playing on the rope swing. Herr Howell slowing down the swing by hanging on to it and dragging his legs on the ground. After that, we all got on a bus, then a train, then... everyone went home.

So... Today, like all other days was fun, there was so much to do and see in such a small place and it was a nice way to end our first week in Germany. On Monday we all head out to Bavaria and spend a week there.

I guess thats all I have to say (Yay)...

Tschüss!

Johnson.