My permanent host-family.

My Room!

Having some s’mores.

My first dinner as a part of the family.

Present time!

Warnemünde, a small town outside of Rostock.

The welcoming flowers from my room.

My host dad’s gift.

Hamburg, Germany!!!

This is St. Petri,

one of the oldest

churches in Hamburg.

This is the oldest artifact in Hamburg. It is over 500 Years old.

This is the door handle on the right. It is 500 years younger than the other one but yet it looks older because this is the door handle that everyone touches. Interesting that they will touch the lion over the demon.

This church was bombed three times, rebuilt twice,

and on the third time they decided not to

rebuild it.

It now serves as a peace memorial

and is black from the

flames that burned it.

This Church was the first thing to be bombed in Germany, and begun the World

Wars.

The top…

And the bottom

portion of what is left of the bell tower and the church.

The German word for City

Hall is “Rathaus,” This is the Rathaus in

Hamburg.

More Rathaus…

On the day that we visited, the police band

was outside the Rathaus

playing traditional

German music.

Just B

eing a to

urist.

This is the St. Michaelis Church. It

has the tallest clock

tower in Hamburg.

A look out from the top of the church over the city of Hamburg.

This green Building is the Rathaus.

This is the Peace Memorial from earlier.

This is Celine, my host families old exchange student from Belgium.

A patch of blue sky in the Hamburg sky.

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All of us together with the Hamburg man. Berlin has their bears and Hamburg has their waterman.

Girly picture before a night out on the town.

First day of School!!!

There was a pool inside this outdoors store. Very Cool and you can test out their equipment in this pool.

This is Dom Wallfahrt. It is a huge church in Köln. I saw this with my host-mom and my Kati my older

host-sister.

Inside the Church.

It was really

large and beautiful.

One of the many stained

glass windows.

Another stained

glass window.

Colors reflecting on the ground from the stained glass windows.

The entrance!!!

More Church…

My first German Pretzel!

At an Italian restaurant with friends of my host-parents.

My host-sister Kati and I after our day in

Köln.

On the bus headed for Copenhagen.

My first time on a Ferry!

It was really windy.

This is Tina and I riding

the Ferry.

Looking back on Germany.

It was cold, windy, and rainy, but I was more than

excited to go to Denmark!!!

I’m in Denmark!!!

Downtown Denmark and

the temperature is

14 degrees Celsius. That’s 57.2 degrees

Fahrenheit. It’s a cold day.

Some old architecture buildings…

I was exploring around

Copenhagen and I found this lovely

statue.

Posing with a lovely lamp pole. Copenhagen is a

very beautiful city and has

many fun and interesting

things.

Danish license plate on a German car.

The sky is beautiful here but most of

the time I was there it rained.

My frien

d N

ela and

I.

Really big yacht…

This is the Danish Palace.

We got to see the

changing of the guard and that

was really interesting.

Another statue in

Copenhagen.

The famous Danish Mermaid.

She is smaller that I thought she would be.

This would me riding my extremely

getto city rent a bike. Yes, I did ride the

town bicycle, and am proud

of it!

This is by far the most pathetic getto

bike I have ever seen.

This would be me

before I realized

that the bus had left me….

Viking ship at the Vikings museum in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Friends…

Sitting in the Viking’s boat.

At this museum they make Viking boats from their original design and with authentic tools.

The Danish flag waving in the wind.

Trying out a new mode of

transportation in an

environmental museum.

The Danish Kronborg Castle.

Marvin and I.

From the inside looking out. This is a

beautiful castle and has

something to do with Hamlet

and Shakespear.

The castle has been renovated in to a museum now.

It was not too crowded with

people the day that we went

which was nice so that we could

leisurely browse the museum.

This is from the bow of a

ship. It is supposed to

look intimidating, but it looks nice to me.

Wine Chest

The museum is a marine museum.

While we were inside looking

at the museum, it

started hailing outside.

Money Chest

Now, the problem with this artifact is that it is not

being used. It was cold and

this would have looked a lot

better with a fire in it.

From the bow again… maybe she was pretty before she weathered

all those days at sea…

What ever boat bow this was on, they must have been trying to

scare other boats away. She

definitely would have sent the

men running the other direction.

Okay, finally we found the friendly ship. There were several of these ship bows there on exhibit.

Another warrior ship. No, these are achtually all jokes. I have no idea what kind of ships these went on. Just

adlibing for the comic effect.

Ship Frame

This one is pulling the

oldest line in the book. “Hey

did you see that?” This is one sheepish

boat.

Picture through the museum

window. This is one of the few windows that I

have seen that has a single door.

Most windows have double doors

to keep out the cold.

This would be after it hailed. It

didn’t stick though because it was too warm.

The veiw from the top of the

castle was amazing.

Definitely worth walking up the never ending

spiral staircase.

The flag in this picture is not

posed that way. That

would be the wonderful

bone chilling wind.

I have no idea what any of the things on this mean except

stop. First of all it’s in Danish

and second of all I don’t speak

ship.

More pictures from the marine

museum.