Monday was a day of travel.  We spent the morning walking around Salzburg.  The weather was still nice and the sun was also shining.  On our way to the train station at about 1:00 it clouded up again and began to rain, which was no big surprise to any of the students.  Because it was a holiday weekend in Germany and Austria, the trains were rather full.  We traveled to Muenchen and then changed trains and boarded the ICE (German high speed train).  It was a 6 hour journey to Bielefeld.  The train reached speeds of around 300 kph (about 180 mph).  The closer we got to Bielefeld the more nervous people started to get.  Students were met at the train station by their host families and moved into their new homes for the next three weeks.

Students spent the morning today, June 14, in language instruction at Tandem, the language institute.  Their homework for this evening is to interview their host family to see what their stereotypes about Americans are.  Students met their host siblings after class and everyone split up into groups and participated in a Stadt-Ralleye (city scavenger hunt) to get to know the city of Bielefeld better.

Sorry for the lack of pictures.  We’ll post some tomorrow of Bielefeld and language classes.