safe home

Well, this is going to be my last post while still in the States and I am getting all sad about it. Today Bob had arranged for us to shake hands with the mayor of Nashville and get a picture taken with the governor of Tennessee. We took our chance to sneek around in the capitol and peeped into all the open doors, got introduced to other representatives whose names we will not rememeber and who are going to forget us before we will even have made our way down the corridor, but who cares? Although we have not made it into TV I think that is a pretty good achievement and we all enjoyed it. It also gave us a chance to see a little bit more of downtown Nashville which is not the prettiest place I have ever visited, but certainly worth seeing.

Our last cultural shock is coming up because tonight we are going to go to a line dance and I am pretty sure it will be as embarassing as the karaoke, but nevermind.

We are getting pretty good at frisbee though - the nocturnal practising lessons in front of the dorm have certainly contributed to our abilities. Last night we had a particularly nice session by adding an extra rule to the game which consisted in making up the next bit of a story whenever you dropped the frisbee. To me that was the best summing up of the trip that could ever have happened - we incorporated all the idiosyncrasies and experiences of the trip into that story and for sure it was a pretty long story. You should have been there, it certainly was a laugh.

Well, almost all the good-byes are said, all the presents are exchanged and rather large portion of interesting sites has been visited. Plus all the fun we had with our fraternity project and all the interesting people we have met through it. We will all most certainly remeber that trip and definitely not just for the very different food and the southern ways...

It was mighty craic for me and just "flip" would not suffice to give words to such extraordinary and whimsical experiences as we had them in the music city Nashville.

I don't know, I am getting all melancholic and nostalgic here, but it

really has been a great experience and all my doubts about going to

the States for such a short trip with so diverse a group of students have vanished about 8 days ago. Furthermore I would not want to have missed all those lovely little quarrels and hard discussions about essential topics like the names of certain Dresden clubs or where we will have our next coffee or ice cream. Entertainment for the masses!!! We all have to go back soon, but although we might not end up as friends for life I did really enjoy my time here in Nashville with you guys and I am looking forward to seeing you all in Dresden very soon where we will all have to go back to the daily grind, but might always cheer up things with remembering southern friendliness in a hearty: How are you doing, hon'?

By the way, I will always be up for any frisbee extravaganza :)