The Stay in Germany
Well, here is the one and only entry from my
times in Germany. There really wasn't that much going on in Germany for most of
the time, and the lack of internet access made me somewhat lazy at updating the
site, as you have probably noticed. But here is all that I did in Germany that
was of any importance, or that I can remember (which I suppose is the same
thing).
While we were going to school in Aachen (at
RWTH) we lived in a resort village called Hoog Vaals Landal Green Park, in the
town of Vaals, Netherlands. It was just across the border from Aachen, and about
a 30 minute bus ride. It was a pretty nice place, but there wasn't a lot to do
there. We spent most of our time either on buses going back and forth to Aachen,
or just hanging out playing cards and other
stuff.
We did do a couple of fun
things. We went on an excursion to Eastern Germany for a couple days. It was
interesting, there is definitely a difference between Western and Eastern
Germany. We saw some open cast coal mines, and it was a good time. We had a huge
snow ball fight in Frieberg, which was just a great, great
time.
We also got to do a mine
rescue course. Well, not a real mine rescue course, but we got to go to the Mine
Rescue school, and go through some of the training. It was really, really hard
and really, really fun. We had to put on compressed air breathing systems, and
then climb around a HUGE jungle gym kinda thing. Squeezing through tight holes,
climbing up and down ladders, over piles of stuff, wriggling on our bellies, and
all that kind of stuff. Some of the holes were so small we had to take our air
tanks off and push them in front of us. I didn't think I would make it through
some of the holes, but I did. It was a really great time, probably the best part
of Germany.
Well, those are really
the only memories I have that are worth telling of our time in Germany.
Craig "Welcome to the trailer
park" Broadhurst
Posted: Sun - February 29, 2004 at 09:57 AM