Wednesday May 19, 2010

Our first night at the youth hostel went better than expected. After meeting for a continental breakfast, the group left at 9:30 to go explore the city. We started out at the NikolaiKirche and everyone enjoyed the beautiful architecture and great acoustics. We were also allowed to sing a few songs. I gorgot to mention that it was raining... All day long, which made walking around all day very, very enjoyable. Anyways, we then ventured back into the cold to go to the Bach museum. It was a really neat museum that had lots of interactive parts to it. Highlights of the museum were a room that was filled with musical instruments that you could hear the individual parts withing a piece and a table that was like a giant iTouch that had pictures and information about Bach. After the museum, we hurried over to the Thomaskirche and looked around for a little bit because they had a noon service. For luch, we split up into groups. Some people ate at an Italian Pizzaria, while others stopped at Curry Kitche. After lunch, w3e met up and were able to go back to the Thomaskirche to sing a few songs there as well. We then went back into the fantastic drizzly weather to go visit the Museum of Modern Art. There were four levels of art varying in types and how recently they had been done. Once we were done looking around, we were free to walk around, shop, or do whatever. At 5:45, we met up once again to go to an evening vespers service at the Thomaskirche. Afterwards, we went as a group to eat at the Saxony resaurant that some of us had been to the evening before. It was really good, even for the second night in a row. We were then free once again to walk around or just have free time. As I sit here no in the common room at the youth hostel, some people are playing foosball, a few of us are playing cards, and others are catching up with loved ones on the computers. Oh, and Adam just broke a chair! It was pretty hilarious. Goodnight!

Laura Unruh