Germany is great! We arrived at 6:00 am on Saturday morning and were not allowed to sleep at all until that evening, in an attempt to lessen the effect of jet-lag. It was a good idea, but it meant that we were awake for over 30 hours before going to bed. Our German friends prodded us along through the day by taking us on a tour of the city and the campus, which is one and the same. They are quite fond of saying, "The city is the campus!"
We had a long ride from Frankfurt to Jena, during which we passed fields of gold flowers and dark German forests. I had forgotten about the fabled German forests (and the Black Forest, in particular), and I'm looking forward to doing some hiking and checking them out.
Here is a picture of Andrea and Mary in our new office at the Center for Applied Developmental Psychology (or CADS, as they call it). An interesting tidbit: the German word for developmental psychology is (drum roll please) Entwicklungspsychologie. They love their long words!
And a few shots of the town (more to come in later posts). Here is a shot of part of downtown, the Stadtzentrum (city center).
And the market place - they are setting up for a spring festival!
I took this picture because I couldn't help myself. What says, "I'm German" more than wearing blue suspenders and wielding a giant mallet?
To come in the next post: German inventions that they should have in America, and American inventions that they should have in Germany (Charmin could make a fortune over here!)
3 comments:
i still can't believe you are in Germany already. eat some sausage for me!!!!!
missing you from Chi-town!
missing you from Chi-town!
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