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Rebecca Ludvigsen

Geschwister Scholl Strasse

Jung Stilling Haus #5

Zimmer-Nr. 204

35039 Marburg

Deutschland

So, I forgot to say that we went to the one of the local radio stations here in town for our Thursday afternoon class. Our class will be producing and hour long radio program- speaking about whatever we want in German and playing whatever music we would like. This is definitely a first. We learned all about radio in Germany, equipment, and got a tour of the station. Essentially anyone can come here and produce a radio program for free. This place is in in old building that used to be part of the railroad, and trains still rush by and shake the building. Everything in there was OLD! They still use VHS, CD, mini-disc, and probably other forms of data recording that I am too young to know about. I couldn't believe they don't use I-tunes, or any type of computer player. Anywho, we learned how the soundboard works, and got to practice speaking on the radio, and controlling the music and microphone, etc.

On Saturday, we took a charter bus to Frankfurt. This weekend is the museum festival. You can buy a button for 4 Euro, and this gets you into all of the museums all weekend long. There are probably 25 museums in one little area of town by the river. There are also TONS of people that are drawn to this event, mainly for the festival events. There are hundreds of tents set up along both sides of the river selling food, alcohol, souvenirs, and really anything you can think of (I even saw a palm reading kiosk). I saw the Goethe house and museum, and walked around the festival taking it all in. There are also radio stations set up, and stages for live music, and poetry readings, well, anything I guess. We also had a city walking tour for 2 hours when we first got there. Frankfurt is the home of the tallest sky scraper in Europe, the Commerz building. It would be dwarfed in the US. It is a huge banking and trading city . Apfelwein is a big thing in Hessen, and I tried it mixed with Fanta, which cuts out the bitterness of the wine.

That evening, I hung out with Lizzy for a while, and showed her my "shoebox" of a room! She couldn't believe how small it was. I also started reading the book she gave me in German along side the english version online through Amazon. It is good, but I only read 9 pages since reading it in German is quite a long process! It is called Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher, or the city of the dreaming books.

This is the first Sunday we have had so far that is free of any trip or scheduled event. It is interesting when there is nothing open at all! I am going to the open air kino with Lizzy to see a French film dubbed in German.

See ya,

RL