I’ve arrived in Germany!
After I got to Frankfurt and figured out how to call Barbara from a German pay phone I was on a train to Wurzburg where Barbara met me at the train station. Wurzburg isn’t a huge city but it has wonderful public transportation, very friendly people, and Barbara was telling me even though there are a lot of young people there’s hardly any crime. “It’s like a village even though it is larger.”
I met Barbara in Italy when I was studying at Il Sillabo. She’s fluent in Italian and was working at a school outside Florence for about 5 weeks before returning to Wurzburg to finish school. Now it is near impossible to explain a person in one blog post so I will use photos and my favorite Barbara story.
Around the time Barbara and I went to Rome, just after meeting each other we came across the inevitable question; “Why Italy?” Well it turns out Barbara is a very Italian name and Barbara’s mother named her after a little Italian girl she used to care for so besides that connection (and loving the culture and language) there was also a room in her house. “We call the room Italy. Since I was little, because it is where we keep our things for the beach and we would go to Italy for summer vacation.” Now the room is still filled with storage things, skis, etc. But the whole family still calls it Italy.
“I have to go to Italy and grab something real quick”
“I think it’s in Italy”
“I forgot we put our bikes back in Italy, I’ll go get them”
Isn’t that fantastic? I certainly love it, and to hear Barbara tell of it and see her smile grow. it’s really quite nice. Not only is she a very sweet person, all of her friends have been kind too.
The first day I was a bit jet lagged so we just took a walk along the river and stopped at a park to walk across the pond. The day before I arrived they got snow, Barbara says that Wurzburg usually doesn’t get much but this year it’s been colder than usual. We went to the Mensa later (more on that in another post) for dinner where I met Ande, Barbara’s boyfriend. Then I fell sound asleep in my comfy little bed next to the heater and slept soundly for the next 10 or so hours.
On A Blind Horse 