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So, yesterday, I visited the city of Bamberg. Supposedly, Bamberg is famous because it has the highest brewery per capita ratio of any other city in the world. We visited the cathedral in Bamberg which was pretty freakin' sweet. What I was impressed with was the fact that I could actually read the Latin inscriptions that existed all around the cathedral. It kind of disappointed me that there are no big cathedrals like that in the United States. O well, live here is not like life there.

After we visited the cathedral, we were set loose on the streets. I found an Internet café and uploaded my usual update. After that, I just walked around the streets for a few hours. Since shopping doesn't interest me, it's usually just time to kill until we're all ready to go back. However, I try to make the most of my time on the streets by trying to learn as much of the language that I can.

Besides dinner, most of my time back at the house was spent in deep sleep. I still haven't adjusted very well to the time zones. To make matters worse, I woke up at about 2:00 and didn't get back to sleep until around 5:00. It's a great thing that class was taught later in the day. We had our first class for Evangelical Theology. I have to say that I'm finding the class very interesting, and, if I wasn't so tired, I probably would have been more involved in the discussion process. As it was, I wasn't. The rest of our day (until now) has been spent obtaining information about our village that our group has adopted. For our project, the assignment is… well, I don't really know what the assignment is because the project is for Arts in Western Culture, and I'm not taking that class. All I know is that we're supposed to find out information about some village somewhere (which are more like suburbs of Würzburg) and make a presentation about it. Our village is Veitscöchheim. So, the three of us went over there today. Since we had all been over there before, it was easy for us to find the tourist centre. One of the ladies there spoke English and was able to help us and give us some literature about the town with some of it being in English.

After we got some flyers, we looked around for a place to eat. We found a nice restaurant that looked like it was the ground floor for a nice hotel up the stairs. While waiting for our food, we looked over the flyers that we had obtaining. I was pleased that my German had gotten better in the fact that I was able to order my food and ask for the check without any English (which our waitress happened to speak a little bit of). After we got back onto the street, we decided to try to find the synagogue in the town that was mentioned in the flyers. After some “intense looking around” (in other words, we got lost), we found the synagogue, but noticed that it wasn't open until 15:00. So, we decided to head back across the river to rest for a bit and then head back. I decided to bang out a journal entry on my laptop while I chilled out to some instrumental Phil Keaggy. I think that I'm going to head across the river to the Bücherei in Veitshöchheim where I should be able to use the Internet.