Perhaps you're wondering what the Oregon students did for Thanksgiving. Silvia Kunze-Ritter, our resident director for the study program, invited us to come from our different universities to Tübingen for Thanksgiving dinner on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. It was magnificent: turkey, stuffing, potatoes and gravy, green beans, and an assortment of desserts, some brought by students. It was fun to see everyone we had gotten to know during the Tübingen orientation; not only the other students, but also the tutors and teachers. After the dinner, there was a Thanksgiving reading and a quiz for fun. I enjoyed the evening very much, despite feeling ill that day; I had flu-like symptoms on Friday, but thankfully it did not turn out to be a full case of the flu, and I was feeling well by Saturday afternoon.
Today, I took a trip to Munich. The international office invited all the foreign exchange students in this year's program on a day trip to Munich, which cost us only three euros for a required visit to the Deutsches Museum (We traveled in a chartered bus). The museum was definitely the highlight of the day; it is a museum of technology, covering everything from engines and machines used in the Industrial Revolution, to pioneering aviation, to modern science and technology. My favorite section was aviation; there were dozens of aircraft on display spanning from the Wright brothers to the present day. Many exhibits have hands-on sections that remind me of OMSI in Portland. I'd recommend anyone interested in visiting the museum to allow an entire day to explore it, because it's huge. I spent several hours in there, and I had to prioritize and breeze through many areas of the museum, because I wanted to leave enough time to walk around in the city.
After the museum, I walked up toward the Marienplatz (great photo on Wikipedia), where the Christkindlmarkt (Christmas market) was being held. The rows of stalls stretch for blocks in several different directions. Besides the many stands offering handicrafts and everything Christmas-themed, on nearly every corner there's a place to get a steaming mug of Glühwein, a traditional winter drink; a sausage on a roll, or all different kinds of sweets. There are so many people crowding the area, however, that to get from one end of the market to the other is often quite difficult!
Came home tired but happy this evening.
< I'm standing in front of the Deutsches Museum's Messerschmitt Me 262 A-1a, built 1944. This type of aircraft was the world's first operational jet-powered fighter. >
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