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It's weird to think that, at this time last year, I was applying for the CB scholarship. It's seems like it's been years since the thought of living in Germany first entered my mind. I guess it's just because so much has happened between now an then. I've done so much even these past couple of weeks!

I'll start with vacation. Vacation was so cool that it deserves its own post. All German schools have a fall vacation, and it's not just the wimpy three days we get off for Thanksgiving. Sometimes it's two weeks, sometimes it's just one, but they all have some sort of time off. We had just a week, but what a week it was! After the Halloween party Monday night, we headed off to a campground in Bayern. It's on a lake in a town called Murnau, and I can't even describe how beautiful it was.

The picture doesn't do it justice. Michael's parents have had a camper there for elven years, I believe, and it's pretty much a permanent dwelling now.

Wednesday, we visited München.

We walked through through the older part of the city to a museum, which was really cool. Of course, the day couldn't be complete without a visit to H&M. The next day we visited Linderhof Palace, took a gondola up a mountain, and visited Oberammergau. Friday we went to the Garmisch Olympic Ski Jump, Wickiedorf, the site of a German viking movie, and Murnau before we picked up to go home

later the next day.

In the evening, we played board and card games on the little camper table. I don't even know how we managed to cram so much into just five days...