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| Is that Water? A River? An Ocean? No (well, yes) it's a PRIEL |
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| A bit to the left we could see The Netherlands in the distance, accompanied by a big Coal Power Plant (on the coast b/c shipping) that was UPWIND of us.... yeah, thanks. (In all seriousness it was never on b/c Windturbines) |
I definitely over-packed for it
I had the idea that it was going to be this frigid, wind raked, desolation, but it was actually really beautiful and warmer than back in Sachsen! That meant I was ROCKING the Chacos and Socks combo (somehow It really worked there).
Don't get me wrong, it was definitely windy, perfect for flying lots of kites!
And there was a huge storm last week that was the worst in the past 5 years or something, trees got uprooted, a historic windmill was destroyed, a handful of people died, not good. The sea's destructive power really impressed me. Growing up in Chicago, there are basically no risks of natural disasters (not counting you Snowpocalypse/-mageddon). And here on the North Sea there are Levees everywhere that have essentially reclaimed lots of land for farms and towns in the past 200 years, it is definitely a very vulnerable area in terms of sea-level rise. Ok enough about the environment, I'm planning on doing a whole post about it later.
Anyways it was really cool, we went to a few museums, saw a few Seals, drank some fancy Ostfriesischen Tee (figure it out people), flew some more kites, I dominated in Mini-Golf, went mucking about in the Schlick & Schlamm during low tide (The North Sea is home to the Wadden Sea, a huge tidal sea and world heritage site. If you time it right/have a guide, you could walk all the way to the coastal islands!), went horse riding, flew kites, went on an awesome bush plane flight around the islands, flew kites, drank traditional and ate LOTS & LOTS OF FISCH.
but we didn't celebrate Halloween.......... OnO
So now I'm back at home and getting ready to start my regular school routine. Having left my guest home and then coming back to it somehow makes it feel more like home. I've been making friends, my guest parents are great, language is really no barrier anymore. And I found an extracurricular!!!:
-I will be playing the roll of Maximillian, Count von Moor in Schiller's Die Räuber (the robbers) with the school theater! It is not on the scale of ETHS theater (soooo bummed I missed Yamo), but I'm really happy I got a main roll and I can't wait to start rehearsal. Hopefully the Director will allow the Count to have an American accent, but I'm counting on my accent getting much better by the spring.
So enjoy the rest of fall everyone, thanks for reading
-Jack
Here's a lovely fall picture, all the leaves have painted the forest floor and the Beech/Birch trees are strikingly vertical. It keeps reminding me of Gustav Klimt's "Beech Forest".
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| My view waiting for the Train every morning, I seriously need to get up there and hike around |
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| The Character's on my Guest Cousin's kid's TV show "Mia & Me" Seemed familiar to me. I checked, and that's also inspired by Gustav Klimt! Oh Europe... |
