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Again, the day started out like all other days. I woke up for class this morning. I started out with breakfast. Since Dr. Castleman was in the parlour with all of us, she decided to teach our theology class right there on the breakfast table. The interesting topics were the crowing of Charlemagne and the Great Schism. After class, we loaded onto the boxes to head to Eisenach. Eisenach is a town about two hours north of Würzburg which is about an hour longer than our normal trips. However, the ride was well worth it. For one, the terrain that we traversed was very beautiful. However, the difference between beautiful and boring is monotony. So, we placed a CD into the player of a rather hilarious comedian very reminiscent of Jerry Seinfeld.

Once we finally got to Eisenach, we had some lunch. Bakeries are very abundant in Germany, but I was not in the mood to have a meagre, pastry lunch. So, after I ate a small sandwich and a delicious dessert, I wandered throughout Eisenach in search of my favourite food in the entire world excluding ramen noodles: bratwurst. Fortunately, I found a street vendor that was selling them for €1.50. One great aspect of Germany is that every bratwurst is always better than the last one. With that said, I could eat bratwurst forever over here.

Eisenach is famous for two people: Johann Sebastian Bach and Martin Luther. The town is famous for Bach because it was his home town. The town is famous for Luther because he once resided in the Wartburg Castle while he worked on his translation of the New Testament into German. Our next destination was this castle. Wartburg Castle was different from the other castles that we had visited. In the words of my professor, it's not the Cinderella castle. The castle is spread out along a narrow mountain. If Luther was referring to a specific fortress when he composed “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”, he was most likely referring to Wartburg.

Our tour of the castle was interesting. Although each castle and cathedral is different, those differences mean less and less when you have to describe them every single time in your weblog. Needless to say, Eisenach was majestic. After our tour, we climbed the tallest tower of the fortress. I looked out over the landscape of Germany as I was up in the tower. I was amazed at what I saw. I saw kilometres and kilometres of the most beautiful landscape that I have ever seen. If someone from Microsoft had seen it, they would have stolen the picture for their evil purposes and used the picture as the default background of their next version of Windows. I was surprised that in a highly industrial country, there still existed places of such beauty.

We then went back to town to tour the town's church. It was another church. Where the castle was unique and distinctive, the church was unique and distinctive, but the castle was more so. Since the ride into Eisenach took two hours, we only had twenty minutes to entertain ourselves in Eisenach. With so little free time, I decided to waste it and go find the boxes. We then loaded in and headed back to Margetshöchheim. The ride back was long. We finally arrived back in Margetshöchheim around 19:00. We finally had a our late dinner. Although Eisenach was really far, on Thursday, we're visiting Munich which is exceptionally far. However, tomorrow, we have a free day. Well, the day's not really free. There is still class (but not for me since I'm not in Arts and Western Culture), and we have to visit our outlying villages in for our village project, but we're not headed anywhere other than the suburbs of Würzburg. So, I spent the evening working on assignments for American Government and journalling in hopes that, one day, I might be able to find an Internet café that will accept a USB device so that I can update all of my friends back home of what's happening, but that probably won't happen until Friday when we're all in Munich.