Maastricht end and germany!!!

Day who knows... I thought it was Wednesday. Turns out it's Friday. 
So I haven't written in a long time... That's because I was in class. And it was real boring. Real boring. So I'll give you a brief recap of the past however long it's been. So we ended up leaving amsterdam a night early because it was so sketch. I still have big bites all over me from that night. Awesome. The next day in Maastricht we just chilled. Went and saw sex and the city... Which they have an intermission during the movie. Weird. The next 3 days we had class and a lot of homework. We did a lot of homework. Had a 9 page hand written final report to do.... Alone. Yay!! My group sucked... One guy would have been helpful except it was his 21st birthday sooo and then the other girl had nothing useful coming out of her mouth so. Did it alone... Whatever.  During the last couple days of class we toured this hotel which has been converted into a hotel but originally was a church. It was so amazing!!! They had a floating restaurant and a sweet glass wine cellar And a giant egg for an office. Sounds weird but it was so cool. I have pictures. 

We also toured the hoge hospitality school which was a really long tour and we had a lotmof homework that we needed to do but it was pretty awesome... Thr beginning of the tour anyway. They had converted a castle into a hotel. Amazing! I would highly suggest staying there if you goto Maastricht! There most expensive room is around 100 euros and you get multiple bed rooms and the top of the castle with a goregous view and a swing and an attached spa. Sweet. But we toured around a bunch of rooms and everyone was so unique! The inside of he hotel was white. White white. Even the names and numbers on the wall were white. But the insides we rediculous. There was a green room. Bright green walls and carpet. Another room was the fishntank and we didn't get to see it but she described it to us. It was all blue and had the underneath of an elephant swimming on the ceiling. Wowzers.  Another room had a bed and then full scale kitchen where you could cook or ask one of the students to come up and cook a meal for you. Another room had a goregous bathtub and then a huge library in the room with red bookshelfs. another had the toilett right in the door. Were talking open your hotel door to a toilet. Haha they had big gold spoon knickers on the door so you could warn someone before you entered. Definatly something you'd talk about... 
They also have a pretty sweet masters program but I don't really have 30 g's right now. It's half in barcelona and half in maastricht and you get 2 masters. Wow! And they are a really good hospitality school. World renown. Ooh. 
They fed us huge portions... We were all so hungry! Def not loosing any wieght on this trip. Beer bread and cheese is my diet. Great. That night I did homework until 10 and then got ready and went out for steves birthday. The next day we gave our presentations and then walked around town. We went to the bookstore... Also used to be a church! So beautiful... Everything is just better here. Then I finally convinced people to go into the church in the square. Oh my god was that cool! They aren't as strict over here and hey let you do anything and go anywhere... Not like in America. Everything wouldve been roped off. They had this beautiful square in the middle. Garden and trees the huge steeples all surrounding us! Wow. They also had a tresure room with gold everywhere and a crypt in the basment. Creepy but awesome. Then the chaple itself was again beautiful. Tall ceilings and pretty stuff. You'll have to just see the pics because we all know I'm not going to give it any justice from my description. 

That afternoon I took a 3 hour nap and then booked our trip in zermat and we all hung out and packed but no one went out. It was a pretty fun night! I really love the people here. Well I should say I really love half of the people. Hahah. So I slept in my own sheet in Amsterdam and after that experience I wrapped it in a bag. Tightly. So I hadn't taken it out because I was scared. So Julie helpe me unfold it and check for bugs. It was all good until there it was. Bug. Ugh ufggg so I put it back in the bag and stole on from the hostel. 

Next morning woke up uber early! Walked to the train station which was hilarious because Julie (a different one) an Stephanie have gigantic luggage! Were talking like 130 pounds for Julie. A whole separate bag for her 12 pairs of shoes. Haha. So a lot uncomfortable sleep and train switching later...
Side note: so we are on our way to zermat as just switched trains.. We had 7 minutes to make the switch which is fine but keep in mind we don't speak German. Apparently the train is having problems so we have to get on another train to get some other train. I'm a little fuzzy on the details if you couldn't tell. Actually a lot fuzzy. But we got on the train. We can only sit in second class but we got on the first class and walked through to the second class sections. Still don't speak german. Walked alll the way and there are all these people waiting at the doors with their luggage which normally means they are waiting to get off. Nope. Trains full! Haha so now we are sitting where you put the luggage. Literally in between two peoples seats. Crammed in like sardines. Haha people just walk by and laugh at us. 

We arrived in Munich. Munchen in German. Got to our hotel which is heaven! So nice and there is candy everywhere! Mmm went out to old town and walked to a beer garden which is not like a garden of hops where they make beer. It's just a place where people drink a lot of it. So we get there and order giant beers and food. Ohh the food. I didn't even want to come to Germany... Didn't think there was anything for me to see there. but it is probably my favorite country so far. Love it. Well I ate in the train station. Stupid. So I just watched everyone eat their delicious food, but the beer was good! Arleigh had her colorado state shirt on and the guy next to us stopped her and goes there too! Small world. So he drank with us and we played cards for about 2 hours And then went home to get ready. Arleigh and Julie went with him to watch the game and we met up with them a couple hours later. They were tired so they went home and the other Julie and Stephanie and Terry (the boy) and his German fiend and I all went out to a club. Wednesday night. No one was there. It sucked. Terry turned out to be a creeper. A lot too clingy so I left they all stayed. I took a taxi home alone... Don't worry I didn't get raped or sold into sex slavery or whatever else you're worried about. I was too. Hah. Got home passed out. 

Alright so yesterday. Almost caught up. I'm on around hour two writing this thing. That's some dedication right thurr.  So we woke up and had their amazing breakfast. The other girls called us twice to make sure we were up and I call them an hour later and they are still sleeping. Ugh life story. Ar needed to goto the post office which was the longest most difficult adventure of my life. People don't speak English as much anymore... Things are getting more difficult. So then we walked to the train station forever away and headed off to dachau concentration camp. Real happy. Took a train to a bus and then arrived. It was pretty intense. You walk in through gate and there are bunkers on the left and a big building on the right. The place is huge. It was supposed to hold  
6000 prisioners but they put 32,000 in. Crazy. They had torn down all of the bunkers except 2 which was dissappointing. It was pretty much just a huge barbed wired in gravel field. They had built a couple new buildings like churhches. We walked through the crematorium where they told them they were going to shower and then put the jews in the gas chamber. We walked through the holding room, the place where they undressed, the gas chamber with fake shower spouts, the creamtorium- they had 4 big ovens which about 3-4 bodies could fit in, the room where they kept the bodies and the place where they disinfected the clothes. Pretty intense. There was this goregous walkway which was so green but if you read what it used to be it's pretty messed up. We saw where the rifle stood to shoot the Jews, where the Jews stood and the blood ditch below them. There was also the place thy kept all the ashes in the ground. After that we walked around the museum. We could have spent the whole day in there reading all the horrific stories but we wanted to do other things too so we made it brief. I read about all the medical experiments they did. So so so messed up. Freezing people to death, changing air pressure so fast peoples brains would burst, malaria. It was rediculous all the stuff they did. 

Then we left and took the train all the way into town. So glad we figured the train out! It took us exactly where we needed to be! Yay. Then we decided to do mikes bike tour! Pretty expensive but so worth it. It was the most fun I've had so far! The guide was vulgar and hilarious! We all tootled around town and saw some awesome things! We saw this yellow church that was all white on the inside! Beautiful. Im going to need to look up synonyms for beautiful awesome fun and pretty soon.  Hah we also saw this gold trail which was put there after WWII to commemorate all the people who took this ally instead of the main street so they didn't have to hail hitler. Don't worry I have a pic of me on it. And I guess they have a camera set up in that sqaure during some Nazi holiday and of they see anyone hail hitler they find them and put them in jail for months. So then we biked to the beer garden... Which was more gardenish and seats some 6,000 people. Wow. Had a giant beer and some potato and sausage thing. Then continued the tour. Stopped and saw these people surfing on the river... So cool! Finished tour and then went to the hofbrauhaus for some drinks. We called the others who had just arrived and they came and met up with us. Coincidentally we were staying in the same hotel! We all got pretty drunk off of their ginormous beers. It's got to be like 3 beers in one. I had 2 and didn't drink half of the second one. It was a ton of fun! We all just played cards and clapped to the beat when the band played... I feel like it was a typical German night! Took the subway home and went to bed :) woke up late this morning so now we are on the train with more stops and something is wrong. If I spoke German I'd let you know and me.

We are on our way to zermat in Switzerland if we ever make it and then to interlaken and then to class in bouveret. should be more great times! I'll try to write sooner because this was like punishment... Aur voir!