LEIPSCH

Just kidding. Well, not really. Curious about how Leipzig's been so far? Read on, bud, read on.

So I got here on Saturday. My host is realy nice and made me dinner and stuff that day. The way the program is set up I get breakfast everyday too; which is pretty much awesome.

So on Sunday I only got to go to Sacrament meeting because our group was supposed to meet at noon. So imagine meeting a group of people for the first time in a city you've never been to. It wasn't that bad but kind of like, a little hard to figure out which group was which.

We went to lunch at the Auerbachskeller and then got the special tour down into the real part where Goethe used to hang. It was pretty cool. Then we went on a tour of the old city followed by a bus tour on a bus with broken air conditioning. It was to ridiculously hot in that thing.
Our school schedule had been varied. Sometime we spend the first 3 hours of class doing discussion groups, other times we have guest speakers who come and do presentations.

Tuesday I went to institute. There was only one class which is different than what I've experienced in Berlin and Stuttgart. It's also just in an apartment, which is also different because in Berlin it's in the Stake center and in Stuttgart it's in an old meeting house. I didn't have my scriptures with me but someone let me use their Bible so it was all good. Everyone was really nice. I talked with some of the missionaries afterward and did the whole "do you know____" and a couple of them knew some of the same people I do.

Oh gall. So one day I went to see this movie call Die Stimme des Adlers. It was made in Mongolia in Mongolian by a group of Swedish and German filmmakers. It's all about this boy who doesn't want to carry on the family tradition of being like and eagle hunter. He doesn't hunt eagles, just has one and then uses it to hunt. Make sense? Ya, not really. Afterward, the starring actor came and answered questions. Problem: he only speaks mongolian. Answer: German production team guy takes questions in German, translates them into English, and then another guy translates into Mongolian and then back. In a word: awesome.

Yesterday we went to the US consulate. Why? Because we were invited. Why did they invite us? I have no idea. We were supposed to just mix and mingle for two hours. It was like touture. Not helped by the fact that some people were getting a nice buzz from the free wine and it was really hot in there.

Anyway, I'm out. Stay tuned for more adventures from the Vaterland.