Bellinghamsters, you will never believe this!

So. Big news. Yesterday I woke up, looked out on my balcony, and IT WAS SNOWING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow. Just had to get that one off my chest. And it's not like it was blizzarding or anything and nothing really stuck, but it was exciting to experience the lovely little flurries. Especially since I have never seen snow in October before. Hopefully this winter will be a doozy! :-)

And some MORE pictures...

This is Daniel! He is Swedish and he is the assistant cook. He is wonderful and makes me special vegetarian food on a daily basis. I love him!

Here I am sitting in the Honeycomb, which is what we call the 'cafe'...it is where students maintain their sugar levels as well as read, play games, do puzzles, just hang out...y'know. It's the happenin' place.

Artistic picture (by Owen) of me on the job...

More pictures...

Here I am with 2 of my 3 roommates...on the left is Emily, who was born and raised as a missionary kid in Kobe, Japan...in the middle is Lisi, one of two Austrians at Bodenseehof as students this year. We took a series of Crazy-At-Neuschwanstein pictures but this was definitely my favorite.

I said 'Nice picture' and this is what they gave me. Thanks guys. On the left is Owen and on the right is Alex, who actually lives in Bellevue. Poor him, I know ;-)

See what I mean about the eery fog effect?

Some more of the lovely fall colors...

Wow I'm a Procrastinator.

This is the front entrance of my beloved Bodenseehof...the entrance to the administration building, anyway. Technically the admin. and dorm buildings are one connected by a hallway, but whatev. :-) Once you go through these front doors there is a LOOOONG hallway and everthing sort of stems off of it (first office, then kitchen, then dining hall, then open lounge and bathrooms, then Honeycomb (cafe, which I work at!), then lecture hall, some storage rooms, and at the very end is the dorm building. I live on the third floor on the back side. I'll work on getting some more pictures of the building though.

The school has canoes and kayaks available for all the students to use so a group of us went out for a ride. Although the Bodensee is really super huge (WAY bigger than Lake Whatcom), it is really rather shallow until you get 50-75 meters out.

On the walk up the hill to Neuschwanstein we passed this little waterfall. I thought it was quite picturesque!

Even with all the fog, the castle was still pretty impressive. I didn't go inside this time, but still felt pretty small and insignificant standing next to it. The creepy, medieval castle effect was definitely enhanced by the cool, clammy whiteness as well ;-)

A little taste of the fall colors...through the fall fog :-)

Neuschwanstein...for the second time...

Hey there everyone! I just got back to school from our trip to Schloss Neuschwanstein! I went to the castle in July with GAPP, but it was still pretty cool to go back. The weather really didn't cooperate though. TOTAL fog. As in, when we hiked up to the suspension bridge where all of those magnificent postcard pictres are taken from, you couldn't even see 10 feet in front of you...oh well! It was still nice to be there with all my new Bodenseehof peeps and to be able to do some more hiking around than last time. Here are some more pictures...enjoy!

So actually they will be in the next couple of messages. Cause it's dinner time. And I'm hungry!!!!

Getting some feedback...

Hello All!

I am really ridiculously busy at the moment (essay due, reading assignments, knitting circle, German classes, working in the school's cafe, leading a sing team, y'know, the usual ;-) ) but I wanted to pose a question just really fast:

What do you guys want to know about me and me-living-in-Germany?!

There are all kinds of things I could post on here, but I don't want to post things that are just going to bore everyone out of their minds. So comment me back and ask questions! Give suggestions! Anything you guys want to know, just ask!

Tschüs!

Lorraine