Hello again and Happy Easter! Monday, I returned from a lovely Easter weekend in Luxembourg City with 4 of my American friends from Heidelberg. Luxembourg is an easy journey in theory, as the city is not far from Heidelberg (only 2 hours by car), but with our super-discount tickets, our train ended up being about 5-7 hours each way (blech). Nevertheless, we had a great time!
Luxembourg City is built on a mountain, with the city center at the top. Thus, the architecture and natural surroundings of Luxembourg City make it quite a unique spot. We visited some of the underground tunnels from the city's medieval fortress days and the Lux. City history museum, but mostly we spent our time wandering the parks and admiring the architecture (and delicious ice cream).
On Sunday morning, my friend Sean and I attended a Catholic church for Easter services. In choosing a church, I simply picked the one closest to our hostel, and hoped for the best. Knowing German and being able to pick up on a good bit of Luxembourgish, I had a 2-in-3 chance of understanding the service, right? As we realized about 2 minutes into the service, however, it was mostly in French and a little Luxembourgish....alas, just my luck. The service, which was only attended by about 50 people, was lovely, however, and we even got Easter eggs as we were leaving.
All in all, it was a great time! I'm back in Heidelberg now and have resumed classes. Other fun bits of news:
--I am the newest member of the "Grosse Chor der Universitaet Heidelberg" (or the University Chorus), which is about a 100-member co-ed choir. We will have one concert at the end of the semester, where we will perform Haydn's "Missa in Angustiis." For Mom and Dad, you can listen to clips of it here: http://music.barnesandnoble.com/Haydn-Missa-in-angustiis-Nelsonmesse-Te-Deum/Nikolaus-Harnoncourt/e/825646985784
--On Friday, I'm having a SE Asian food party at some church that my Singaporean friends attend on the American military base.
-- I got an awesome offer from a German friend in my literature class to watch some big German soccer game in Karlsruhe on Saturday. I thought it was some little thing until I was informed that this thing will be attended by 30,000+...anyone want to teach me the basics of soccer again?
And I think that's all!
Love and miss you all. Until next time,
Lizzie
Luxembourg City is built on a mountain, with the city center at the top. Thus, the architecture and natural surroundings of Luxembourg City make it quite a unique spot. We visited some of the underground tunnels from the city's medieval fortress days and the Lux. City history museum, but mostly we spent our time wandering the parks and admiring the architecture (and delicious ice cream).
On Sunday morning, my friend Sean and I attended a Catholic church for Easter services. In choosing a church, I simply picked the one closest to our hostel, and hoped for the best. Knowing German and being able to pick up on a good bit of Luxembourgish, I had a 2-in-3 chance of understanding the service, right? As we realized about 2 minutes into the service, however, it was mostly in French and a little Luxembourgish....alas, just my luck. The service, which was only attended by about 50 people, was lovely, however, and we even got Easter eggs as we were leaving.
All in all, it was a great time! I'm back in Heidelberg now and have resumed classes. Other fun bits of news:
--I am the newest member of the "Grosse Chor der Universitaet Heidelberg" (or the University Chorus), which is about a 100-member co-ed choir. We will have one concert at the end of the semester, where we will perform Haydn's "Missa in Angustiis." For Mom and Dad, you can listen to clips of it here: http://music.barnesandnoble.com/Haydn-Missa-in-angustiis-Nelsonmesse-Te-Deum/Nikolaus-Harnoncourt/e/825646985784
--On Friday, I'm having a SE Asian food party at some church that my Singaporean friends attend on the American military base.
-- I got an awesome offer from a German friend in my literature class to watch some big German soccer game in Karlsruhe on Saturday. I thought it was some little thing until I was informed that this thing will be attended by 30,000+...anyone want to teach me the basics of soccer again?
And I think that's all!
Love and miss you all. Until next time,
Lizzie
Luxembourg has 3 national languages: French, German, and Luxembourgish (a mixture of French and German). Above is an example of Luxembourgish, which reads "I want to stay as I am." This sentence would look almost exactly the same in German...
Central park running through the city. We spent a lot of our time here; wandering, napping, eating ice cream, etc...
Luxembourg City is built on the side of a mountain...sadly our hostel was at the bottom and the city center was at the top... Here's a view of the city from the top of the mountain.
aww yay i'm glad it's finally spring and you can have SUN and flowers!!! everything's blooming back here too, and consequently making me sneeze out the wazoo, but it's worth the prettiness. love you and miss you!
ReplyDeleteI loved all pics... especially with their captions :)
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