days 8-21: Ulm

Well, guess what?!?! I can stay in Germany for the duration of my internship!!!! I will write a post later on how to get a German work/residency visa, but it's late and I have to work early tomorrow.

Last week was the Eurovision Song Contest. We had a little bet going between Flo, Stefan and me. Every country gives out scores after all the contestants sing a song, so we did that too at the apartment. The winner didn't have to do the dishes. I lost. For dinner we ate Raclette in front of the contest. The dinner was so good, but lots of dishes to clean later :( The next day we went to Charlottehöle, a cave about half an hour away from Ulm. I should have taken more pictures to show, but all I have is Flo and Stefan in the beer garden after and there's no shortage on this blog.

This week was filled with the usual working in the morning and coming back home in the late afternoon. Tuesday was such a beautiful day (schön tag!) I took off from work a few hours early and went for a walk and read in the park with Flo.

This weekend's trip was to Stuttgart to see the Indiana Jones movie!!!! Flo and I took a train from Ulm to Stuttgart, about an hour to the closest English movie theatre around. The Corso Kino is this small theatre a short train ride outside the city playing movies in their native language (mostly English!) I found out that's where all the Americans in Germany hang out on Saturday nights. Before the movie, Flo and I made a day out of seeing the city of Stuttgart. It all started with a walk in the park but ended up taking most of the day. I liked it because we walked a good part of the city, saw the royal gardens and walked around the outside of the Wilhma zoo. You don't even have to buy a ticket inside to see the polar bear exhibit! Woohoo! Free sights of polar bears! You can even see some donkeys and ponies too, but the polar bears are so much more exciting. They were supposed to have a baby polar bear, but maybe you have to pay to see that. Come to think of it, you can do most things in Stuttgart for free. We didn't pay to go to the Stauffenberg Exhibition. You can see everything from the entrance and the guy taking the money gave us a German and English pamphlet so we took them and read about the museum exhibit in the park. Even the castle was free. You can go up to it and look through the windows and see inside without going inside (see the picture below). We're kind of cheap. . ...