{"id":3561,"date":"2018-08-13T14:50:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T18:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/?p=3561"},"modified":"2018-08-13T14:50:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T18:50:01","slug":"travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/2018\/08\/13\/travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The time has come, my dear friends, colleagues, and enemies. We all knew that it would come to this eventually, but who would have thought so soon? This, I regret to inform you, is my last blog post.<\/p>\n

After much deliberation, I have come to the decision to write about a recent day trip I had the opportunity to take. After deciding on Friday night that we wanted to go somewhere on Saturday, we chose Nuremberg due to its proximity to Munich and our overlooking of the weather forecast.<\/p>\n

Alas, we arrived in the morning and I immediately set the trip off the right way by forgetting my phone on the bus, which was actually a safer place for it than outside, where it was pouring down rain. This was not a problem, however, as any traveler of Bavaria will tell you that Nuremberg is home to many, many wonderful museums. Naturally, we chose the one closest to the bus station.<\/p>\n

It was a modern art museum, and much to our delight, we were able to enter for free. It is unclear at this point if our free entry was due to a student discount or due to the quality of the museum. Please enjoy the following photographic memorializations of several of the exhibits:<\/p>\n

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Outdated appliances represent our aging workforce and the inevitable obsolescence that comes from consumerism<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Aristotle discovers that the Earth is round, 330 BC, colorized<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Luckily this was a fake person and it didn’t stand up and scare me<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Society’s a cage, man<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This was a hard museum to follow. But after leaving, we decided to give the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, which was founded in 1852 and is Germany’s largest cultural history museum according to Wikipedia, a try. Naturally, it couldn’t live up to the modern art museum. I didn’t see a single exhibit about outdated appliances.<\/p>\n

After that we saw some medieval churches and a castle. Very pretty, slightly dreary. Nuremberg is a little more Winterfell than King’s Landing if you know what I mean. But it’s a great place for war trials. Here are some pictures:<\/p>\n

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church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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gate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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different church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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castle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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It was truly a great trip, but perhaps the highlight actually came upon our return home. At this point, we decided to stop by a supermarket in the subway station to purchase a few refreshments. As I was checking out and putting my things in my bag, a bottle broke (for, like, no reason) and cut my finger. I found myself being shouted at in German from all directions: the cashiers, the people in line, perhaps God. As I dripped blood and my bag dripped beer, I realized something. I could understand these native speakers. And they weren’t happy. Truly a great moment for my German language progression. Unfortunately, I couldn’t savor it and instead had to clean up beer and glass as I tried to not become lightheaded from blood loss.<\/p>\n

Now the time has come for parting words. If you have read this far, I do hope you have enjoyed keeping up with my blog and with my trip. I thank you for reading and sticking with me through the highs and the lows, the ebbs and the flows, the B2s and the C1s. Nobody means more to me than you, dearest blog enthusiast. You.<\/p>\n

Auf Wiedersehen with much love,<\/p>\n

James Moremen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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