Travelog for: Alizée

Today we had to get up early because Katrin wanted to show us the library of her university. She had one hour before her classes began, that means a lot of time for her.
This is the area for silent work. It is devided from the reat of the library by glass.


These stacks are the most important ones for Katrin. The letters BID mean "Bibliothek, Information, Dokumentation", I think you can guess the meaning, the German words are very similar to the Englisch ones. Katrin is majoring in Information and library Sciences and here she can find most of the important books.


The library is on two floors (the 7th and the 8th one) and Katriin prefers working on the 8th floor. Let's go there!


What looks like much fun is rolling shelf. Here ypu can find newspapers in the shelves.


Behind the roling shelves is one of Katrin's secret spots. Frome here you have a beautiful view over Hamburg.


Now it's time for Katrin to start working. But hey, what is she doing? That doesn't look like work for studying. No, Katrin uses the free time to write some postcards for Postcrossing and a letter to one of her pen pals.


Well, it's boring to watch her writing and Eddy Bear and I decided to enjoy the sun.

Today Katrin has to prepare her salad for lunch herself. At first she cut cauliflower in small pieces. Then she put them into this strange plastic bag to cook it. She says it's a new product which cooks the food in the microwave just with steam. It sounds a bit weird, but let's try it.


Three minutes later: We opened the door aof the microwave and all the steam left the bag. Then we tried the cauliflower and yes, it tasted like normal cooked one.


Then we had to cook quinoa, it's one of the cereals Katrin is alowed to eat. You cook it like rice and it tastes a bit like nuts.


This is the result: a strange looking salad, but it tastes better than it looks.

It was pretty early when Katrin woke me up today. She took us with her to Hamburg to show us some more places she sees every day.
This is the central station, where our train has just arrived. It's the red one you can see in the background.


Then we walked over to the subway station. This is the view back to the building of the central station.


After a two minute "U-Bahn" ride, we arrived at the station Lohmühlenstraße. This is where the university campus is.


This tall builduing is the part of the campus where Katrin's classes take place.


Inside the builduing there are two diffrent lifts. One goes to the floors 1 to 5, the second one to the floors from 6 to 14, but this one can stop on all floors.


And where are we going? Of course floor 7, the library!

Today Katrin had some time after the lectures and she decided to show us some nice places in the city center of Hamburg.
We took the subway which brought us to the river Alster. From here you can go on boat trips or just sit on the pontoon and enjoy the sun.
The second photo shows the view back to the street, it is called Jungfernstieg. Here are all the famous and expensive shops like Joop and Thommy Hilfiger.



This is the view over the Fleet (the water you can see here) to the town hall.


There are some restaurants and cefés right next to the water.


Well, this building on the left was the place Katrin really wanted to go. It is a shopping mall called Europapassage and there is a really great craft store where Katrin spent a lot of money on craft stuff.

Katrin has decided to tidy up her room a bit. Specially her craft stuff has been spread all over her desk and now she wants to have a small drawer box  for all the stuff.
This one is made of cardboard and you just fold it and put it together. It sounded like fun and Alizée and I wanted to help.


At first we folded the whole box...


... then the drawers.


This is the result: a really nice looking box. Now Katrin can put all her stuff into it, I hope, everything will fit in there...

Happy Easter Mom!
Today the weather was great and we went on a trip to a outdoor museum. Here you can see how people have lived 100-150 years ago. The museum took farm houses from all over Schleswig-Holstein (that's the name of the state Katrin is living) and rebuilt them in Molfsee.
Here are two of the old farm houses...


...and here is another one


Most of the houses are open for the visitors and you can see all the rooms. This is a living room and one of the beds. They were really small!


In the barn we discovered an old coach:

Today is Eddy Bear's last day in Germany. We decided to have a walk around the garden and enjoy the sun and all the beautiful flowers.




Now it's time to say goodbye. Bye Eddy Bear, have a short journey home!

Today I discovered this book on Katrin's table and started to read it. It is called "Isis' Daughters - Women in the ancient Egypt".


The book was very fascinating and I got frightened when suddenly a little bat appeared next to the book. This is Wieka, a substitute of Katrin's lost voyager. He has the mission to find the "real" Wieka one day on his journey.

This is sooo exciting! There is a letter saying "stuffed animal" on the cutoms decleration paper. Maybe it's another TV? I can't wait to open it...


Look at this cute guy! It's the swap-bot envelope as a stuffie, it's so cute. Maybe Katrin will turn it into a TV but she is a  bit afraid that it might get lost somewhere. I don't mind, right now I take care of it.

This weekend I travelled to Schwerin where we visited the beautiful castle. It is on a small island and we had to cross a bridge to go there.
This is me on one of the ad rhinoceroses you can find everywhere in Schwerin.


Then we walked arounfd the castle:



Then I sat down and enjoyed the view over the Lake Schwerin.


From here I had a nice view over the castle garden. We couldn't go there because it is closed for the "Bundesgartenschau" which starts next week. It a kind of exhibition where they have planted a lot of colorful flowers and you have to pay to go there. Maybe I'll stay long enough with Katrin and can go there one day.


On the way back home I discovered this guy. His name was ConradEckhof and he was a famous German theater actor and founded the theater in Schwerin.

Hey mum, look at all these books! Katrin came home with a big smile in her face today because of them. She got them from a librarien for one of her classes in university. She works on a project about bookcrossing and these are the first books she will release during the next weeks (after she has probably read about half of them )

Hey mum,

Katrin is still very busy but today we can show a another group shot:



This is me in the middle of her four TVs Swap, Swep, Swip and Swop, who are supposed to become wild TVs during the world wide release next weekend.
They got their first journal entry today but they still need their tags. Katrin will probably make them on Tuesday or Wednesday...

Look at this, it's my favorite place to sit, because everything around me has the same colour as I have.


I was a bit daydreaming, when I heard someone coming up to me. It's Darth Vader who has arrived today from the US. He asks me a lot of questions, seems like he wants to know everything about his new home...

This evening something really spooky happened. Darth Vader and I were talking about aliens and suddenly there were black clouds in the sky and a thunderstorm started. It rained heavily and when we looked out of the window, the ground was white, like snow. But it wasn't snow, it was "just" hail! It was so hard, that it evenbroke three holes into the carport roof.

Today is a holiday in Germany and I'm back in Schwerin - well I'm on my way back to Schwerin. We went to a outdoor museum in a village not to far away from Schwerin and decided to walk back home.

This is an old outhouse (Plumpsklo in German) I discovered at the museum.


On the way back we discovered the remains of a castle. It was located in the forest next to the Lake Schwerin and we had a nice view over the lake. You can even see schwerin in the backround.



This tree was funny, a dandelion was growing in the hole of the trunk. I blew and it was gone.



About two hours later we arrived at the castle of Schwerin. Do you like al the different and colorful tulips whichj grow in front of the castle?