Wrap-Up and Thanks

Wow, what a month!

It is hard to believe that May Term is over already! It seems like we just got here in Marburg. But anyway, I promised to tell you about our last excursion, so...

On Thursday, we had a full day of touring Weimar and Eisenach with a group that included us Wartburgers as well as about 10 or so other students from speak+write. It was a lot of fun and we learned alot about both of the cities and their historical backgrounds. Weimar is famous for being the home of the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe for several years after he was brought there by one of the ruling dukes, who wanted to put Weimar on the map. Hans Christian Anderson also lived in Weimar for a time, in addition to another German author Schiller. In Eisenach, we had just enough time to climb up to the Wartburg castle and take a tour. It was pretty neat and I was impressed at the size of the inside of the fortress, I did not know that it was inclosed like it was with a sizeable courtyard area. It was also cool to see Luther´s room, where he translated the New Testament from Greek into German in only 10 months! Plus, you know, if we had been in Germany and not seen the Wartburg, there would have been something wrong... ;)

Friday was our last day of class where we all took our final tests and then did our presentations for our projects that we had been working on the past few weeks. After that, we were able to wind down a little, finish packing, and visit our favorite spots in Marburg before we left our temporary home. Now, the people in our group that were flying back right away with Frau Losch, left for the U.S. at about 12:45pm Germany time, so they should be back in Chicago by now. I hope they made it! Others in our group are staying on for a week or two, to visit friends here in Germany or in another European country. I am actually staying on for quite a while here in Deutschland as I will be studying German at a Goethe Institut in Göttingen starting in June. I am getting pretty excited about it already! But I am sad, because today was my last day in Marburg and I miss it already, though I have not even left.

Well, that about wraps up my Germany May Term Blog! But first I want to give a quick shout-out to all my May Term members--Frau Losch, Kristen, Eric, Debi, Luke, Janet, Sarah J., August, Margie, and Sarah M.! Thanks for the great memories and the fun times! I missed you guys already today, because Marburg was not the same without you all!

Again, thanks for reading and I hope you all have a great summer and I will see you Wartburgers in the fall!

Tschüs!

Jolene