a small update

Ok...just wrote this once...lost it...and now i'm rewritting it...grrr.

Hope you all enjoy the pictures...I'm now done posting them and will the only pictures you will see until I get back. I still like my "real" pictures and my digital camera is more for art work and I wasn't going to lug it with me. but one of the reinecke's last gifts to me was a cd with all the pictures from my time there so i thought i would share them with you...enjoy!

time here is going by fast. we only have 3 weeks left and i have so much left to do. i still have to go to london and even though i'm going on sunday, wonder when i will have the time. i'm too busy with classes here, but i guess that's what i came here to do. i won't be able to go to prince charles wedding...i have a class at 2:30 next friday and the time to travel to london takes too much time...i would get there and have to turn around and come back...and i can't skip this one. it's for our Saturday fieldtrip. but i will be going to see STOMP! this Sunday in London. i'm slightly frustrated as most people have been to London (many went over easter break) and have seen all the places i want to see so it's hard to find someone to go with me to london. i'll figure it out.

i have to update my journal. i'm a week behind and once that is caught up, i can post it here so you can see what i have been up to. it's pretty much been cold and rainy here so we don't get the opportunity to do much.

that's pretty much it...and i will get caught up on my journal. i should just do it tomorrow, especially since i have a 6 hour head start to most of you. well, 7 until the saturday night. we did our spring ahead with the clocks last weekend. i always assumed there was a universal day to do that, but i have found out wrong, europe was last weekend, us this weekend. learn something new everyday.

and i guess that's it for now...with one final note:

HAPPY 21ST DANIELLE! PARTY HARD!!

peace...
andi

a small update

i'm done with pictures. i finally finished! hope you enjoy them. i don't have a digital camera here (i like actual pictures...which is weird coming from me, the graphic artist) but one of my final presents from the Reinecke's was a CD with all the pictures that they took from my weekend there so i decided to share them all with you! I hope you enjoy them.

I am very behind on my journaling, thus makes me even more behind here. I plan on doing that tomorrow. Time here in Oxford is flying by. I think I'm the only one who hasn't been to London yet, which makes me wonder when I am going to get there. I'm far too busy here to get there and since everyone has seen all the stuff I want to see there, I have a hard time finding someone to go with. I'm slightly worried. I also can't go to London on the 8th, the day Prince Charles gets married...I have a class at 2:30. So unconvenient. I really wanted to go. I will, even though I said I didn't think I would get there, will be going to London on Sunday for a performance of STOMP! since Kent got us tickets for half price. Sound be fun.

I will update my journal and post it here for you soon. Just hand in there. I should just get it done and up...especially since I have a 6 hour head start ahead of most of you...well 7 until Saturday night...we sprung ahead last weekend. Something else I didn't know...I knew that only some places actually did the spring and ahead and fall back with the Time but I thought it was a universal day to do it...didn't know that Europe and the US did it on 2 separate weekends!

So that's all for know...not much new, but I will get you updated. And on a final note...

HAPPY 21ST DANIELLE! PARTY HARD!

talk to you later...
andi

Annette, Susanna and I pose on the main level of the Auditorium where the Swing Band Orchestra Frank Sinatra concert is held.  The stage and organ is in the background

Annette, Susanna and I pose on the main level of the Auditorium where the Swing Band Orchestra Frank Sinatra concert is held.

talking to Susanna inside the auditorium before the Swing Band Orchestra starts

talking to Susanna inside the auditorium before the Swing Band Orchestra starts

ooooo the pretty ceiling of the auditorium!

Our seat's in the auditorium for the Swing Band Orchestra Frank Sinatra concert

Jen's and his girlfriend, Susanna, me and Annetta and the Concert House before the Orchestra concert.  Uwe's being photographer

Jen's and his girlfriend all spiffed up!

Susanna and myself...waiting outside before the Frank Sinatra orchestra concert

Outside of the auditorium where our Frank Sinatra concert was held

Outside of the auditorium where our Frank Sinatra concert was held

Ummm...the traditional German Easter dinner.  It was good...I guess the Reinecke's tried to make it for the Stadem's but didn't have the correct ingredients in the US...so here it is!  And that's not mashed potatoes...it's a sticky ball of dough.

Easter Sunday Lunch...made for us by Jens, Uwe and Jen's girlfriend.

Isn't it beautiful?  And huge?!  Were we went to Easter Sunday Church...the Dom Kirche.  Annette and I are in the lower right hand of the picture

Isn't it beautiful?  And huge?!  Were we went to Easter Sunday Church...the Dom Kirche.  Annette and I are in the lower right hand of the picture

Susanna and me and the Dom Kirche

The really big Dom Kirche!

Susanna and I at the front Gates and stairs of the Dom Kirche were we went to Easter Sunday Church

The front gates of the Dom Kirche!

Susanna and I sharing a laugh after Easter Sunday Church

Easter Sunday Church getting out

The front alter at the huge church (The Dom Kirche) we went to for Easter Sunday

The front alter of the Dom Kirche we went to for Easter Sunday

The front alter of the Dom Kirche we went to for Easter Sunday

Susanna and I in our Easter Sunday's best, standing with the Dom Kirche's front alter in the background

My Easter Sunday Picture, dressed in my Easter Sunday's best

Easter Sunday's church sevice being let out at the Dom Kirche

The Copula or Dome of the Dom Kirche from the inside...sehr schon!  (very pretty)

The Bishops pulpit at the Dom Kirche at Easter Sunday's service.  Martin Luther is the statue up on the right!

The amazingly huge organ and pipes and the choir balcony at the Dom Kirche

Easter Sunday Church at the Dom Kirche

Easter Sunday Church at the Dom Kirche

Easter Sunday breakfast...and my Easter basket!  The Easter bunny came!  I just woke up, that's why I look sleepy

Getting ready for a day out...I'm putting on my contacts, hence the hunched over look

Our mess...Susanna's and my room

Concentrating hard on painting a beautiful Easter Egg

Uwe and I painting away with great concentation

In the living room/dinning room painting Easter Eggs for the Easter Tree!

In the living room/dinning room painting Easter Eggs for the Easter Tree!

In the living room/dinning room painting Easter Eggs for the Easter Tree!

Easter Egg painting for the Easter Tree with the Reinecke's friend who is originally from Iraq

Look at me go!  Busy painting my Berlin Easter Egg

Concentration needed for painting my Easter Egg

At the top of the Copula at the Top of the Reichstag

The hang out at the top of the Reichstag

Up the Copula at the top of the Reichstag

Through the Looking Glass...Annette, Susanna and I looking at the mirrors...and the start of Uwe, the photographer's feet

Uwe and Annette taking a picture...of themselves taking a picture

The inside of the Copula at the top of the Reichstag...it dips down into the Parliament room

oooo...pretty mirrors inside the copula

Uwe and I being photographers...or just tourists

At the top of the Reichstag takin pictures

Awww...aren't we cute?  With the copula in the background at the top of the Reichstag

The big Dome (Copula) at the top of the Reichstag

Me taking a picture of the city as Susanna looks on...sleepily

The top of the Reichstag!

At the top of the Reichstag...over looking the Brandenburger Gate

Susanna and myself trying to keep warm at the top of the Reichstag

With the dome in the background...and it's cold!

Picture time!