Abenteuer in Deutschland

Our apartment in the Alte Stadt

Another long pause between blog posts…

We now live in Tubingen. Our goal, our drive for the past almost year and a half has been to get here. We finally did it. Though I know it wasn’t us who got us here.

Through a series of God events, we have an apartment in the most beautiful part of the city, it just so happens that it is also the oldest part of the city as well. The apartment is older than America! I love saying that. It’s so much fun. It’s pretty small, but plenty big for us. It turns out that the customary thing for old german apartments is to have the shower in the kitchen (which ours is) and the toilet outside the actual apartment in a separate unheated room (again… our is).

One thing it did not come equipped with was any kind of clothing storage, so all our stuff is strewn about our bedroom which forces other things to make their home in the living room, and cycle goes on. All that to say, once IKEA delivers our new shelving units and sofa on Wednesday, I’ll be sharing with you pictures of our beautiful home.

For now you’ll have to settle for this pic I took of the outside. We have the full story of that building, though its not that much. The best part is that door the floor above us… I have no clue what its for, but almost every building has one. I decided that it should be used to build an above ground walkway between buildings. How cool would that be!

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You know you're intimidated.

Tonight was poker night here at the Goethe Institute. There is no better way to get a group of guys together to talk about guy stuff than poker night. Badly lit room, cards, chips that only represent your pride, very manly. It was a great night and I am proud to say that I came in a very respectful 2nd place after a very dramatic comeback late in the game! For my effort, I will be receiving a very strong and well designed umbrella with the “Goethe-Institüt” logo shamelessly displayed. I attribute my close glance with victory to my very mysterious style that seemed to really intimidate.

On a separate but related note, because this is such a great draw for guys to come and hang out, there is a chance you may be hearing about this again in Tübingen. Maybe.

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I should start by apologizing for not posting, but we have been pretty entrenched in our German studies and have found that trips to Mainz and bike tours, while fun, do not help with language skills. But that is no excuse. I will do my best to better keep you informed, and I am going to try to start posting in my poor German and in English. So you can choose your language. Maybe I’ll even have one of those icons in the corner with the German flag and of a mix of British and American flags. Probably not, that sounds hard.

So yeah, it’s big here in Germany too. In case you haven’t heard, America has a new president-elect. Whether you think that is good or bad is up to you, but what I can say for sure is that it is a pretty big deal. I’ve never read big stories from the states in another country. It’s quite the experience. Especially when you’re in those stories what did he say That’s right. Stef, Beth, and I are famous. We were interviewed by a newspaper reporter that wanted our take on the election. He was looking for a fluff piece on how great Obama is, but that’s not what he got from us. We gave him a story about how our faith plays a role in how we see politics and the influence of local government and community/church involvement makes a bigger difference. It was a lot of fun, but it didn’t end there.

The next day we were approached by newsradio reporter that wanted to get our reaction after the election was called around 11:00 in Atlanta (5:00am here in Schwabisch Hall). It was really early and our German wasn’t quite turned on yet, but we again gave him an interview on how we thought it was good that it was finally over and we could come together to finally take on real issues instead of how many houses each candidate owns or how they define “wealthy”.

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