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Posts made in May, 2014

Presentation #1: Guilds

Presentation #1: Guilds

By on May 8, 2014 in travel | 0 comments

Guilds are often surrounded with mysticism and fantasy. This is most likely due to their incorporation with popular movies and video games; however, the Guilds of Germany during the medieval era were all but romanticized. Originally there were two major types of guilds: merchant guilds and craft guilds. The merchants guilds were typically suppliers of accommodates...

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“Was bedeutet das?” #2

By on May 7, 2014 in Tagebuch | 0 comments

This time our word is going to be a little more renown and unique I think. Not many words in the German language have the letter “Q” in it. However, I always seem to remember the ones which do indeed have them. I came across this word very early on in my stay here in Germany but haven’t really cemented its meaning in my head yet until just now, I...

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“Was bedeutet das?” #1

By on May 7, 2014 in Tagebuch | 0 comments

The word is pendeln. This word is interesting as it sort of has a double meaning, both of which are quite useful. I stumbled across this word whilst reading an article for class at Goethe Freiburg. We were talking about people who must commute from one city to another city, and most of the time stay in their “working” city between Monday and Friday and...

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Reisewoche

Reisewoche

By on May 7, 2014 in travel | 0 comments

During our time in between our Goethe classes we traveled as a group to five different places in Europe. In three of those cities, Vienna, Prague, and Dresden, we were free to explore a topic on our own. Below is my travel summary:   Schloss Schönbrunn, Wien [ the Beautiful Spring Palace, Vienna] The palace held great importance during the times of royalty...

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Museum #2

Museum #2

By on May 7, 2014 in museum | 0 comments

***Note: As it wasn’t permitted to use photography within the museum, I took quite a few photos Hamburg and I will present them here so you can get an understanding of how the city looked.**** For my second museum journal I will talk about the Hamburg history museum. The extensiveness and shear length of the self guided tour was quite long. I spent over five...

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