4 tests in 4 days sounds like a great way to end the last full week of this amazing life changing trip. With nothing but cramming information and late nights, Monday-Thursday were a little stressful and didn't leave much time to really do anything. After our last final on Thursday, we were finally relieved of everything but one DHF that we will need to have completed by the time the actual semester ends. Adding to our relief, since the weather had been bad the last week, we no longer were going to bike to Remagen but we would take the train instead. This meant that we wouldn't have to bike the hour long bike ride (which I was actually kind of looking forward to) and did not have to be at the Hbf for an hour and a half after the scheduled time. With this in mind, a group of us decided that we might as well start having a little fun for our last days in Germany. We went out for some drinks and then went out to our favorite club to have some fun.
On Friday morning everyone was feeling good except for me, I had had a little too much fun on night 1. Taking a train to Remagen, we got to go to the Remagen bridge museum and be given a tour by the founder of the museum himself. He had bought the bridge long ago from the city for who only knows how much. It was a very cool museum and it was full of so much history. On the tour we learned all about the days leading up to the failed blowing up of the bridge and then the proceeding collapsing. In the museum there was even a 1,500kg missile that was dropped onto the bridge, but bounced off and never detonated. After the Remagen bridge tour we had our second to last group lunch at a very good restaurant right on the Rhine. Once the delicious food set in and we made it back to Bonn, it was time for a nap. After a power nap, I went with a few people to a very cool church sermon put on by the a nother group of the study abroad students with the main topic being about "love" and how and why we need to love each other.
This night concluded with what some other people and myself believe was one of the best times that we all got to share together. Friday night was the study abroad Farewell Party. At the party was all students that were apart of the study abroad program. We got to enjoy free beer, chicken and steak barbecue, host families, and a very good band. The band was that of one of the study abroad student workers and they were very good. The other students from my school as well as a few other people stood in front of the band under heaters until the band would not play anymore. I stayed to help clean up the great event and then proceeded to go out with all of the other study abroad students which was very cool. This was the first time that all study abroad students had even been together, much less partied together. We enjoyed ourselves at a few bars and then went back to our favorite club.
Saturday morning was better then Friday morning, however I spent the afternoon mostly relaxing. In the evening a couple of us were invited to a friends house of another study abroad program and were treated to a good relaxing time and a nice dinner that was unexpected. Most people stayed at this friends house, however being that it was the last day of the weekend to go out with other people, I went to Bonn to go see my host brother and his friends who were waiting for me. We had a good time at a bar and then a few of us branched off and went to my first ever German fraternity party. This party was a ton of fun, had great music, and good people. I ended up staying here with one of my host brothers friends until 8:30am when we were finally "kicked out". We both managed to make it home, sleeping a little on our various ways, but still making it.
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