I’ll stop the world and dance with you. Naja… 43 days until I touch US soil again. The countdown is on. So, this weekend I am going to Erfurt and Weimar, which are cities in the former east part of Germany. (Weimar Republic ring a bell for anyone who was in AP European History?) My program is giving me a train ticket and a hotel room, so I can’t complain! I’ll be going there with a friend of mine who is from the east coast, but just got a job in Wisconsin an hour away from Chicago. Can we say ‘Road Trip!?!’ So, there is still a peacock on the loose in my neighborhood and I saw it a night ago as I was coming home. It was standing next to a car, smelling it. Ok, perhaps it didn’t smell it. But, it could have smelled it. I guess, peacocks don’t have hands so, it would have to use it’s beak to try and get in the car. But, all in all it looked kind of stupid. But, I wasn’t about to get close to it. Last weekend I went to Strasbourg for one day. And, I took pictures of all of the ‘Oui’ and ‘Non’ signs that I could find. I was there one day before the big vote on the EU Constitution, which the French voted against on Sunday. It was interesting because there were people on the streets handing out flyers about the vote from both the Oui and Non sides. It was also an awesome weekend. It was about 90 degrees and sunny. But, because of the heat, I ended up drinking 4 liters of water that day. It was crazy. I just couldn’t drink enough. It makes sense because I was walking around all day in the heat. I totally recommend Strasbourg because it’s a cute little French town with a slight German touch. However, no one really spoke German…or English for that matter. I did find some older people who were able to speak German, but for the most part I was perfecting my pointing and acting skills. My job search is not going as smoothly as I would have liked. But, I guess I’ll just keep at it. I figure I’m going to end up working at Caribou for a while when I get back anyway. Ah, it’s a job. I’ll take what I can get. If I lived in Minneapolis I could always try and get a job at the German bar…that would be funny. I could work along side of accordion playing Barefoot Becky…Wie schön!