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Jena-trip

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Right after returning from my spring break trip, I woke up the next morning and was whisked off on an AJY trip to Weimar.  This was also the first time I was to meet two of the full-year students who hadn't been around til now.  Now there are 26 of us total, 18 summer only plus 8 full year.
Anyway, our trip went as so:
Wednesday: Traffic jam, Bach house, Jena tour, dinner, host family time
Thursday: Lecture about DDR (former East German government), Weimar tour (including Goethe house), dinner at Zur Noll!
Friday: Buchenwald Concentration camp, Erfurt tour, dinner at some italian place, concert with Jena Philharmonic
Saturday: breakfast at Zur Noll!  Then Wartburg, then HOME

Gorgeous house atop a gorgeous hill
My host parents, the Sauerbreys, in front of their home in Jena

Or maybe not, maybe it was boring to beat all
Christi and Emily LOVE the Bach house, right...

Angela and Leah don't look bored at all
The church tower in Jena, which has only recently been reconstructed

On our tour of the city
Part of the original city wall in Jena

Zum Zwiebel! (to the onion!)
Christi finds her dream restaurant in Weimar and just can't resist

Honest, it's like he follows us wherever we go!
The Goethe & Schiller statue on Theaterplatz. We could not escape Goethe in this city!

Needless to say, they don't ring too loud.
The Rathaus (town hall) in Weimar with the bell tower that has porcelain bells

A thin balcony, b/c Hitler was afraid of heights!
Hotel Elephant, where Hitler used to stay and speak from that balcony. The statue is Thomas Mann


A view out the window at Buchenwald

Eis cafes rock. America needs them. NOW
Chilling at an eis cafe in Weimar


A mass grave outside Buchenwald

The first one of its kind in Europe
The twin churches in Erfurt, with a memorial for the 16 killed in a school shooting 1 year before

hey, he's older than the US!
This statue, over 800 years old, is representing someone vigilantly waiting for Christ's return

Kikkery-kee! Kikkery-kee!
Characters from a German fairy tale. I forget what it's called, but it's kinda famous

It looks like a normal street when you are on it
If you look carefully, you will notice that these houses are actually a bridge

Ready to be finished travelling!!
Me at the Wartburg

Neuschwanstein one-upped this one though
The concert hall in the Wartburg, which inspired the guy in Neuschwanstein

A cheesy tourist room, but hey
A room of beautiful mosaic inside the Wartburg

We hear a lot about Luther too, most places
Luther's room in the Wartburg, where he translated the New Testament into German