Livin' the Dream

Last time I promised pictures, so here are some of my little village!! ENJOY.




The picture above is my first host family's house.




This picture has a funny story attached to it. I mentioned in an earlier post that I watched Shrek in German. Well one of the words I picked up was donkey which is der Esel in German. At the time I thought to myself, "Jeeze, I'm trying to learn how to communicate in German and I learn the word donkey. When will I ever use this word, why couldn't I have learned something more useful!" Well as you can see in the picture there are two donkeys and when I saw them I was able to say, in German, this is a donkey. So from now on no word will ever be useless, I learned a pretty good lesson. I'm glad I learned it this early on.




This is icecream. Yes I know it looks like Spagheti, but I swear to you this is icecream. Isn't that SWEET. I had to take a picture, I didn't think anyone would believe me if I told them that I ate icecream that looked like spaghetti.




This is the sign for my little village. IT EXISTS. I don't care what Wikipedia says, it does and it is uber cute. =) 400 people! What a change from 80 000. I'm digging it though.




This is just outside of the village. It's a field of sunflowers. You are allowed to go and pick as many as you want and all you have to do is leave 50 cent in a tin. Isn't that cool!! So I am definetly going to do that in the next few days.


I took pictures on a great day! You can't usually see this much blue sky. This is a picture I took as I was just walking back into Oberellenbach. Pretty eh?




Wooden sculptors are really popular in this area. There are quite a few in Rotenburg, but there are also a few in Oberellenbach. These are a few in Oberellenbach.




This is very typical architecture in Germany. Most of the buildings and houses in the towns and villages look like this. It is gorgeous! Everytime I come to Europe I find that I fall in love all over again. I've fallen in love with the architecture, the scenery, everything. Reading is also like that for me. When you read a book, a good one, you can't help, but fall in love. (With something: the characters, the writing style, something like that.) I know I'm goofy, but that's why all of you love me. =)




I took a picture of the sky that day, because that's the bluest I've seen it since I got here. (That was the bluest part of the sky. There were other bits of sky around me that were all grey.) I took the picture, because I didn't want to forget what it looked like. Silly eh? Hahaha.