Today we started out early and left the house at 8am to go to Pforzheim. We visited Johana-Witim Schule school where we had breakfast and the three US students: me, Amy, and Krista where there with the three exchange students: Erika, Alexandra, and Melanie. We got a tour of the school, got our train tickets and student ID's and Erika programmed our phones that they are giving us while we are here :) I had a pretzel for breakfast, which I thought was a lot better than the American pretzels. These are dough that have been dipped in an extremely diluted NaOH base solution, but they taste great! I also had a cake that had layers of honey inside it and a creme on top, which was good too. Also, their apple juice here is so much better than the American one because it doesn't have as much sugar :) We went to the zoo today too and it was a little one with mostly goats, deer, elk, and pigs. There was also a rope course in the trees that we might go back to do later :) We also walked around Pforzheim, which is a pretty big city and there was a Cinema there that was playing movies like Pirates of the Caribbean 4, the Hangover 2, and other movies that had come out in America. According to Dr. Braun, the cost of the movie tickets though is extremely high and for a new release it's about 14 Euros. I am exhausted from all this walking around :) and I should probably get some sleep because we leave the house at 7:30 tomorrow :) Research starts on Thursday and to get the center, I'm going to have to take a bus, catch a train, switch to a high speed train, and then ride a tram to get the German Cancer Research Center so I get to learn all about that tomorrow :)
Tschüss (bye :D ),
~Kiersten
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