Slideshow!

Here's that slideshow I made sometime around December. It's about 9 minutes long with pictures from the Black Forest around Freiburg, Heidelberg, Italy ( Florence and Assisi ), France ( Colmar ), and Switzerland ( Basel ).


Well, I finally start classes tomorrow. I still need to see if I got into either of the History courses I requested. The first week of school you attend any classes you are interested in and if they don't suit you, then you simply stop showing up. Though they do pay a fee ( now 500 Euro, up from 100 Euro last year, but that's another subject ) they don't pay per credit hour and so there's no need to sign up through any unified system. For some classes, like History seminars, you fill out a form with a list of requested classes and then they post a ( tangible, paper )list of who got in. Some courses you need to e-mail the professor or assistant, others you simply show up for and take attendance.

I'm looking at:

Maler und Malerwerkstaetten des Mittelalters am Oberrhein ( Painting and Painting Centers of the Middle Ages along the Upper Rhine )

Exkursion im Mittelalter ( Medieval History with Fieldtrips )

Einfuehrung in die Oekologie, Morphologie, und Evolution der Pflanzen ( Introduction to Ecology, Morphology, and Evolution in Plants )

Nationalsozialistische Macht; Personen und Strukturen ( National Socialist Power; Personalities and Institutions )

Ruestung im Zeichen wilhelminische Weltpolitik ( Wilhelminian History, World Policy )

AYF Geschichte der EU ( AYF History of the EU )

In case I don't get into the Wilhelminian or National Socialist History courses I can fall back on the Medieval History course.

I also signed up for classes next year at MSU. I'll have to talk with my American prof here and see if I can get things straightened out.

On another note, here's some interesting information about biking in Freiburg, including maps and general information and statistics.

I've been biking for about a week now. It's going well. I can get to StuSie in 5 minutes, Vauban in 15, Haendel in 10, and to the University in 7 or so. The weather's been pleasant. A few days ago it was 80 degrees, but I hardly noticed, as 80 in Michigan = death due to the humidity that usually accompanies it.