Bayern München!

I showed up in Munich on Saturday afternoon, met Brian at the Marienplatz. We journeyed around a bit, saw the English Gartens, met up with some of his friends here, got some Thai food, etc.




Today was a long day. We went to the German Museum, which seems to be the German equivalent to our Smithsonian Museum. That was really neat and was a lot of fun. I think you could spend a couple days wandering around looking at all the exhibits, but we made do with 3 or 4 hours.




Afterwards, we met up with a couple of Brian's friends, actually from Wisconsin, and we went to this place called "MultiKulti", which had some of the biggest portions I've ever seen at a restaurant, especially in Germany. Now we're back at Brian's apartment. Tomorrow, I'm off to the Swiss Consulate to get my visa!

Cold part of the year...

Looking out from the library across the valley where St. Gallen sits, I can see some snow on the tops of some of the hills around here. It looks really nice, tomorrow I'll bring my camera up here to take a picture!

France!

So last weekend was the Provence Swing Festival in Marseille, France. Lindsey and I met up in Basel, and then took a cheap flight over to France. Some of Lindsey's friends from Freiburg got hosted by some French people, so we went to their house on the first night. Their house was enormous and gorgeous, and made an amazing first impression of France.






We ate good French food, played French bocce ball, and had an all around good time.

We also wandered around Aix en Provence a bit, and saw some of the city.



I took a LOT of swing dancing videos, but they're all way too big for the blog.


Today, I got accepted to tutor here in St. Gallen, so I'll have a chance to meet some more people, make a little money, and really get to know my subjects.