June 3, 2009. 

So the June 1 post was actually June 1-2....forgot about that time change!! I'm still trying to get used to it. It's crazy haha. 

Ok so yesterday was a really fun day. It was our first opportunity to really venture out and see Leipzig. 

So I work up around 5:30 am because there was light outside. So naturally I got up and proceeded to start my day. The Internet is starting to work better here so I was happy about that. I ended up going back to bed after being up for about 45 minutes. After eating breakfast, our group met downstairs around 10 am to start our day. We walked about a block to catch the tram which is kind of like Houston's Metrorail. We took it into the city. We saw a couple of cool buildings and toured the Leipzig History Museum. I got lots of cool pictures there! They have lots of paintings, sculptures, old books, etc. It was really neat to see all of this history. We also visited St. Nicholaus Church. It is really cool. Kind of reminded me of the Sound of Music church. For lunch, we went to the city center which is a mix between a mall and a train station. It is really cool! Most of the store names are in German but a few of them were in English....the Body Shop, Claire's, Levi's, H&M. And there was a McDonalds, Burger King, and a Pizza Hut. 

After lunch, we all kind of did our own thing. I went for a walk with a few people around the city. We went into St. Thomaskirche (or church). This is basically like Bach's church. I was excited of course about visiting here :)

For dinner, our group went to Leo's which is a restaurant and a bar. We meet up with this woman and 2 university students. They gave us menus in both English and German. The food was delicious by the way. Talking with the students, Felix and Mandy was a lot of fun. They had really interesting perspective on many topics that we talked about. They were really sweet and I really enjoyed eating and talking with them. 

We then went back to the city center and shopped around for a bit and then headed back for the night. 

I kind of left out some of the big details but I'm going to add them later. You'll see why :)

I'm trying my best to get pics uploaded so keep checking my photo website often.