Fall is in the Air

The time has certainly gotten away from me and I can’t believe that it’s almost been a month since I’ve posted anything. We have been keeping really busy for the past month—Will with work, me with school, and trying to catch up with friends.

My German class has been going very well and I really like it a lot. I obviously still have a long way to go, but just a few weeks have made a huge difference. German doesn’t sound as “foreign” anymore and now I know some basic phrases that are important for getting around. The one other English speaker from Ghana switched to a different class, so now I am the only one! We just finished up our first month and have five more to go.

After our busy summer of traveling, we have been catching up with some of our friends during the past few weeks. We finally had time to have some people over for our first dinner here last weekend. 

Getting ready in the green kitchen

The next day, some friends took us to the Kölner Bierbörse (translated to “Cologne Beer Exchange"), which was a festival with different types of beer from Germany and around Europe. Interestingly, they didn’t have any Kolsch from Cologne, so we tried something from Munich.

Kölner Bierbörse

Prost!

Media Park

Later in the week, two of Will’s coworkers took us to a restaurant that had live jazz music—very cool! It made us feel right at home…if our home was New Orleans. We can pretend, right? One of the most interesting things about this restaurant was that it was built over Roman ruins.  Right inside the entrance, there was a glass window in the floor that looked down to some ancient artwork.  

Papa Joe's Jazzlokal

Roman Artwork

The band

I think the next two weeks will be pretty quiet and our next trip is to Hamburg over a long holiday weekend at the beginning of October. No Oktoberfest trip this year! ;)

Because you can never have too many pictures of the Dom.