Author: Clay Lockwood

Germany was such a cool experience. Our class of students was a ton of fun and bonded quite well together. The engineering class was interesting and the profs well at teaching it. The German class was a lot of fun, and I do feel like my German got much better through the course of our time. Berlin the city was amazing. It is both beautiful and interesting, with so much deep history that it took us most of the 5 weeks in Berlin to get even close to seeing everything. The German food was decent, though they do have a lot of meat in their diet and very few vegetables. The food in berlin was also very cheap for the size and quality which was nice. The weekend trips were well planned by the professors who, after doing this for so long know the best things to see and where spending the money is worth it. Going to Rome for a weekend was also just another bonus of this course, another beautiful city with attractions and streets to explore. Overall Bremen was my favorite however, its quaint back streets and beautiful houses were beautiful. Germany was worth the trip.

This was our favorite pizza joint. We only went there 4 times, but the owner knew our faces and would yell out of the store “Michigan!” whenever we passed. The pizza slices were a decent size and cheap. You could get two pieces each the size of a personal pan for 5E. It was a fun place to eat and take a break from homework and eat a good dinner.

This picture is from Me and Andrew Luker’s trip to Rome. Because we are RA’s next year we are not getting to stay the final week and travel around, so we got the opportunity to take one weekend off and fly down to Rome. It was beautiful there. This picture is from the top of the Spanish steps. We had some fantastic food and a great time. This was such a cool opportunity.

This picture is from inside St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. This was by far one of the largest cathedrals we went in on this trip, and the grandeur and vastness of the entire Vatican was insane. The popes did not spare any expense when slowly forming these massive rooms in honor of God.

This picture is from inside St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. This was by far one of the largest cathedrals we went in on this trip, and the grandeur and vastness of the entire Vatican was insane. The popes did not spare any expense when slowly forming these massive rooms in honor of God.

 

Worshiping in Köln was a very interesting but cool experience. This church is much older, much more beautiful but much more formal then my church at home. Having said this I still very much enjoyed this experience. To be able to worship our God in such a grand and ginormous building built for this sole purpose was incomprehensible let alone to add in the fact that the building was built in the middle ages. Though the service was in German, it was still easy to see the longing worship of the church. Incense was something I had never experienced in church and it was fun to have the added mist and smells to the church service. It was weird first going into the church in the middle of the service as tourists and just standing in the back of the hall admiring the architecture which a service goes on in front of us. It felt slightly dishonoring like we shouldn’t be there, and yet at the same time, It gives others a chance to experience church without having to to go to church, which is a positive way to look at it. Over all this was the most grand and high church that I have ever been to and it was an honor to worship here.