How long does it take for a new place to start feeling like home? Probably not long if you’ve only moved across town, but it took seven months for me after we moved across an ocean. I wasn’t sure that Schweinfurt would ever feel like home during the 13 months we planned to live here, but yet I started having unexpectedly warm fuzzy feelings about going home at the end of a long train ride back from Berlin. Perhaps the […]
Category: Schweinfurt
The Schweinfurt Volksfest and About Our Next Coaster Trip.
I’m not going to pretend like Schweinfurt’s Volksfest was impressive, because it wasn’t. At least not after we’d already been to the larger ones in Würzburg and Nürnberg. I was also a bit upset when I realized the people running the Schweinfurt Facebook page were using photos of the Volksfest from the previous year (without stating that they were doing so), which led me to believe there were different rides available than there actually were. But it’s not every day […]
6 Thoughts I Had at the Schweinfurt Fish Market.
1. Is this just an excuse to have another festival? Probably. 2. Wait a minute, this might be an excuse to sit outside and drink lots of beer. That’s more likely. 3. Why is there a giant pirate ship? I don’t know. But they serve beer. 4. Is that Linkin Park that I hear blasting? Yes, and it’s coming from the merri-go-round… 5. Can I ride this?? YES!!! I can and I did and it was awesome. Mr. Meena might […]
A Typical Day in Our Hotel.
Have you ever lived in a hotel? We’re seven months into our stay in one and it’s testing my sanity a little bit. This is how a typical weekday goes. 5:30am: Mr. Stomp Stomp, our upstairs neighbor, wakes up and begins stomping back and forth in his bedroom, directly above my side of the bed. I wonder what he is doing. 5:45am: Mr. Meena’s alarm goes off and he slowly wakes up (he is not a morning person at all). I […]
The Schweinfurt Pigs.
I started learning about the Schweinfurt pigs the day that we got the offer to move there. There isn’t a lot of information about Schweinfurt available online (you can read most of it in about an hour) and the pigs were the only thing that was interesting to me at the time. It was my one fun fact to share when I told people about the small German town that we were moving to (because 99.9% of people had no idea […]
Meeting Our New Home in Schweinfurt, Germany.
Mr. Meena and I spent four short days in Schweinfurt, Germany, to prepare for our move there in less than a month. It was encouraging and a bit terrifying at the same time. A lot of people at Mr. Meena’s company have told us that most Germans speak English and are happy to practice it whenever they get a chance. This was not what we experienced. I understand a bit better now what foreigners that visit America for the first […]