The First Week - delayed post

Hello all.

The first week of the exchange has come to an end (I had technnical difficulties trying to post this, so now, actually the third week has come to an end). 

During this amazing week as a group we have done many exciting things such as the welcome brunch, bowling in a very nice looking German style building and we met up with the Buergermeister  (mayor of Bad Aibling), Felix Schwaller who told us a little about the area. 

On Donnerstag (Thursday) we went to Salzburg in Austria, just for a day trip.  We went down into a 500 year old salt mine and learnt about the salt mining industry. Salzburg got its name from the salt mining. Later that day we went into Salzburg itself, walked around, went into a magnificent church and had a look around.  It was so brilliantly designed and painted with the organs, the carvings and statues. We saw the smallest house in Europe which was only 1.82 metres wide! And we saw the house in which Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born and grew up. 

It has really been a fun week here in Germany. I can’t wait to see more of Germany and Europe.

Nathaniel West. 

We also slid down a wooden slide into the depths of the mine.

We all had to wear these groovy overalls into the salt mine!

Group shot with the Austrian Alps in the background.