5/24
This is the 5th time I have started writing a post and something goes wrong.Here is the abbreviated version of what we have done since Tuesday.
Tuesday night- met hostelmates in lobby/bar area
Wednesday: visited Olympia Park with the Olympic Arena from 1972- looks like tents but made of glass and metal
Visited BMW museum and welt and pretended to drive fancy cars.
Wandered around the Rathaus and found a random art exhibition in one of the rooms, featuring a floating mannequin girl on top of a bearskin rug and random sculptures of mushrooms, I felt like Alice in Wonderland.
Want to Hunting and Fishing museum that featured Bavarian taxidermy, where animals have body parts of other animals attached to them- like a guinea pig with owl wings and a lizard tail. That's House of 1000 Corpses creepy.
Tried on traditional German clothing.
Went to potato museum (Das Kartoffelmuseum)
Took nap
Went to Haubrahaus, where working people wear traditional clothing, bands play German music, and everyone drinks (at least) a jug full of 1 liter of beer.
Went to an alternative-type dance club that played some Amy Winehouse and Mumford and Sons (I approve)
Thursday:
Woke up and went to Schloss Nymphenburg, which was very extravagant out of the castles we have seen thus far, but also was the its restored and had families living there through the early 1900s.
Ate lunch at an adorable restaurant that served exclusively soups.
Drove to Stuttgart to stay with Greta's friend Jannis and his family- they were delightful and cooked a delicious meal of turkey, salmon, corn on the cob, salad, zucchini, onions, peppers, and a roasted baguette.
Had troubles blogging and went to bed
Friday:
Woke up at 5 to catch 6:55 train to Paris (we took the TGV and went up to 310 km/h)
Got here and went to get Indian food
Noticed that its ridiculous to pay €9 for one sandwich... Bonjour, Paris.
Wandered up to the hostel in the rain and noticed that the Basillque du Sacre-Coeur de Montmartre was right up the hill- and the view was amazing from up there. I attempted to get another picture for you guys!
I discovered that I can get pictures off of Facebook so ill be taking some from Greta and Ayla as they post with their smartphones :)
Afterwards we wandered the city around Montmartre, which is famous for its history with painters, including Dahli and Renoir.
I bought some ice cream. Blueberry flavored, despite the chilling rain and wind.
We made it to a supermarket and cooked our first meal- corn, potatoes, sautéed onions, zucchini, carrots, and white asparagus, and we roasted pieces of baguette.
On a cultural note, we started talking to a man from Singapore while making dinner, and he asked what I was studying. When I told him I was studying nursing, he mentioned that it was a very noble job.
In contrast, while in Germany I was talking to a mechanical engineer who was working in Munich, and he mentioned that nursing was "down here" (puts his hand down by his knee) in Germany. He asked why I wasn't studying medicine, because that is admired. I had to explain that in America, nursing is more appreciated than that, and there are many specializations one can do after school.
And he looked confused.
In Germany, Nurses don't go to school, they're trained directly in hospitals and actually get paid for their training. But it is not something to strive for.
Next I explained that I COULD HAVE done medicine, but chose Nursing due to it being more interactive with the patient. Turns out in Germany, nurses have less duties and less say in patient care... At least coming from a Mechanical Engineer. Who knows what that means.
Lastly, we compared salaries. I will be making the same as him.
That is all.
But these conversations really made me realize that the Nursing profession differs in literally every country. Cool stuff... That I should on wow before becoming a Travel Nurse.
The end.
Here is a picture from the first castle we went to back in the day. The Plassenburg castle.
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