Sun - February 29, 2004

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

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