Day 2: Beautiful Strasbourg
On Friday I woke up and was still pretty exhausted. We were all worried about alarm clocks working to wake us up in the morning. The program gave us little orange alarm clock bendy men that we couldn’t figure out how to work. I was relying on my roommate to wake me up but it all worked out thankfully. Breakfast was great. We had French bagets, fruit cocktail, cereal, really good orange juice, and I had tea! We all made extra sandwiches out of the meats and bread to eat later on in the morning.
After breakfast we went to our classroom outside of the Chataeu. There had been a small incident the night before with one of our trip mates. Due to a bad mixing of alcohol and medication, he had a manic episode and destroyed an office and made lots of noise, so much that the French police was called. Thankfully things are worked out now, but he is having to go home. So Dr. Brantz was dealing with that all morning and Dr. Brawter taught instead. We went over basically the history of the Jews from 1500 BC to present day. It went by fast and was a lot of reviewing from my past religion and history classes.
Then we headed into the city of Strasbourg for lunch and touring! It is beautiful! It looks like the beauty and the beast village, but bigger. In the center of the city is a huge cathedral. It looks exactly like Notre Dame with the gothic style, but it has one tower on the left side. They couldn’t build another tower because the foundation won’t support it. For lunch we went to a little sandwich place. Ben and I split a Bratworst with sour craut. It was surprisingly really good. We had some free time to walk around so naturally we got a beer, before our tour of the cathedral. Inside the Cathedral was beautiful. Stain glass windows and an amazing clock that we got to watch turn to 2:30. After that we toured the city a little and then took a boat cruise on the canal. We had the option of our choice of language to listen to the tour and I decided to change mine to British English, which was more Pirate English. It was extremely amusing but then we realized it wasn’t really telling us anything important. I changed it back to the regular English and within 2 minutes I was asleep. So basically I slept for the whole tour. After that we had some more free time (another beer) and then went to dinner. For dinner we had a weird salad and then a pizza thing. It had cream cheese and thin bread and mushrooms, onions, and bacon. Desert was like an icecream cake gelato thing. We were satisfied.
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