So we played another away game at Recklinghausen and won 35-0. The game was fairly uneventful, I caught a couple passes and got a touchdown. I played defense and offense again and the cool thing was that I got my first quarterback sack (when you tackle the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage) since high school or you could call it my first sack. We play Recklinghausen again this week but this time in Monchengladbach at 5pm Saturday night. As long as we all come to play we should win this game again. Here are a couple of pictures from last week’s game.
The morning following the game, my roommate Allan and I drove down to Southern Germany to the town of Rothenburg Ob Der Tauber. One of Allan’s teammates from Oregon State is playing there and he wanted to go visit him. I took the chance to go see my aunt and uncle living an hour away in Heilbronn and spent most of Sunday with them. Since they needed to work Monday, I drove back to Rothenburg Monday morning to meet up with the guys. We spent the rest of the day walking around this medieval village. Rothenburg Ob Der Tauber is an old fortress and the city is still surrounded by the wall that protected it long ago. We walked the entire length of the wall. I spent most the wall-walk ducking or walking hunched over since the roof on the wall wasn’t built for 6 foot plus people. Below are a few pictures of Rothenburg Ob Der Tauber.
Wednesday night the German soccer team had a game against Ghana that would determine whether they would move on to the next round of the World Cup or not. Soccer being the number 1 sport here, our coaches organized that we practiced earlier and then the team could watch the game together at the Hockeypark amongst the couple thousand people that came to watch the game on the Jumbotron screen. Germany prevailed with a 1-0 victory as those of you following the World Cup already know, and therefore will play against England on Sunday in the quarterfinals. If you followed my Twitter feed or my Facebook news feed there is a picture linked of the four-lane street outside my apartment full of people dancing and hanging out on the street celebrating the win. The riot police were called in to clear the people since no cars could drive by… Ironically most of the cars that were driving by or trying too at that time were team Germany supporters driving there cars in circles around the Altermarkt honking their horns, hanging out their car windows with flags and so on. They love the “beautiful game” over here.
Planning my vacation was a tough challenge; so many places to go and not enough time. I think I have done a decent job travelling around so far considering the schedule we have but most of my sightseeing has been in Germany. I am hoping to get to see some more places outside of Germany in the second half of my time here. During my vacation, I will be spending time in France, Spain, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Hopefully I survive travelling to all those countries during July and then I will be able to set my sights on London, Prague, Marrakesh, Munich (Oktoberfest), Warsaw, Luxembourg, Brussels, parts of Serbia and Croatia as well as some more time with my family before I leave in October. I realize visiting all those places in the little free time I have left probably isn’t realistic but I will give it a try anyways and get as many done as possible.
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