Strasbourg

This week in school was not very exciting. Basically we are just gearing up for the big test next Friday. One of our interactive practices was continued class time because after three hours two seems like a great idea. One time we had to plan a film party. We watched a 74 minute movie about the history of Mannheim. None of the MEMsies showed up, which was shocking since none of us would have showed up if we had not had to. The movie was really difficult to understand and completely boring. One day we went to a restaurant to eat German food. I had Apfel Eierpfannekuechen. It was like an egg pancake with apples on it and then another egg pancake on top. It was incredibly filling and I ended up giving most of it away to the guys at the table.
On Wednesday we went to Strasbourg for the day. We took a two hour bus ride there, saw the church and its historic clock, and then realized we were going to have to stay in the town for four hours. We were supposed to spend an hour or two in Strasbourg and then go to Colmar, but one girl in the group fainted. She went to the emergency room and we were stuck in town while she was observed. I would have been more sympathetic to her situation if not for the fact that she has an eating disorder, drinks like a fish, and fainted that morning in the shower and still came on the trip. So while we were wondering how the clock predicts Easter - you can't find out unless you pay for the tour that is given once a day and we missed it - she was recovering from fainting.
What did we do in our four hours in Strasbourg? Well, it was hotter than anything so we found a crepe shop where we could eat in what was probably the wine cellar. It was cold, damp, and had a Barry White CD on loudly. I had a banana and chocolate crepe and it was incredibly sweet. The crepe part itself also was not as good as it was in Giverny. After crepes we saw the church, walked around Strassbourg, bought a baguette, ate next to the river, walked around some more...in the end we were driven by our search for shade.
The sad thing is that we could have had a really fun time in Strassbourg except we did not plan to do anything in Strassbourg. We weren't prepared for the huge open blocks of time. We did go to the tourism center and she recommended a boat tour and a winery in the bottom of the hospital. The boat tour used boats without any sort of covering so we would have been baking if we had gone on it. The winery was cool - both in temperature and excitement level. We bought a few bottles of wine for the group and headed back to the bus early. That has been my week so far. It has not been exciting and I have to leave to go take a chapter test. Then we are going to Munich so I have high hopes for this weekend.