By the way...

After taking a little time off the undesirable folks looking have this has disappeared.  All is gut.

Into my second week

So I've been in school for a little over a week now.  The biggest issue as you can imagine is language.  My language sucks and it's not like they ease into it.  They assume you can speak the language well enough to be here so sink or swim.  At any given time I get about 50%.  I equate it to understanding the big picture but I miss every little detail or any nuance.  The schedule is pretty easy and I think this will probably be the easiest part of my career.  I can deal with a little down time after being on the road so much.  I will try to post more pics as they become available.  Oktoberfest starts this weekend.  There goes my diet!

Old Elbe tunnel

Hey is what a 100 year old tunnel under the Elbe River in Hamburg looks like.  It still carries traffic and small cars can fit.  It was designed and built in 1910 so it was built with horse drawn traffic in mind.  Pretty cool.  It is basically two holes dug 100 feet deep on either side of the river and then a tunnel was dug between the holes.

On the train

The funny part about this is some old German guy came up and chewed out Madi for having her feet up on the seat across from her.  I was so surprised that it just made me want to laugh.  Who knew there were undercover feet on seat train police.