So we left off with Sunday's hike. Let's skip to Thursday. The international student group all went ice skating. It was quite a good time. I take for granted that ice skating is a part of our culture and we've all grown up doing it at least annually. Not the case worldwide. For much of the group, it was their first time putting on skates.
Come Friday, I found out that Germany does have hardware stores very much like what I would find at home. I went to "OBI" and found some good wood glue to fix the guitar I broke... I also used it to fix the hole I made in the wall when I tore a picture down.
Saturday morning I got up early (8am) to make sure I had eaten and woken up by my 9am appointment with my landlord. The meeting was about finding a bike. See next entry for details. It made me happy. That afternoon I met up with a friend from PUMA (Lisa) to go the Toy Museum (Spielzeug Museum) in Nuremberg. For just 3€ it was quite a good time. A few pics below. This morning, the church who provides us a room for the international student meetings invited us all to the service followed by lunch provided by them. I quite enjoyed it. We went for a stroll afterwards around a part of the city I hadn't seen before. All I keep thinking though is, "wow, this would be so much more awesome in summer!" Oh well, summer is coming. I can't wait.
In other news, I got a biomechanics of footwear book the other day from 1987 written in German. I'm going to try to plow my way through that. My flatmate also finally finished unpacking and is going to lend me a few novels in German to try reading. That's all for now. Off to write an entry about bikes!
These folks flip one over the other down the stairs like a slinky
This is a toy kitchen. Many of the ovens let you put a candle in to heat water.
Stieff toys "with button in ear" was their slogan.
American toys - Popeye the Sailor man
Lisa at her masterpiece
