Lunch

Someone told a pretty good story today at lunch:

There was this fellow from Chile, who studied in Germany. His name war Hernandez, but everyone called him Herr Nandez.... Mr. Nandez. Maybe you had to be there, but we all cracked up.

Die Kanutour

I forgot to mention previously that I went on a canoe trip last Saturday on the Weser River. It was...interesting. 26 of us went, if I remember it correctly. One thing that is kind of cool about Germany is that most German villages are pretty old, and therefore the largest building in the area is the church. It was really cool to recognize that we would soon be passing a village, because you could see a church-tower in the distance. It was quite lovely

Now for the interesting part: I was in a boat with 3 Saudis. One knew English and German, another German, and the third, a father of one of the students, knew only Arabic. I was supposed to be steering. It was rather difficult docking when the father was just jollily rowing along as he pleased. It was still a good time.