Farewell Day: German Class and Dinner

The last day of German class was for presentations and celebrating.  We started by each reading the article we wrote in the class newspaper.  Then the advanced German class had a few presentations prepared for us.  First, they made a video to remember our trip.  It was really good (besides the minor spelling error in Marienplatz).  Next, we played jeopardy.  There were a few questions that Claire and I quite enjoyed, such as "Wer ist das?" (Das ist Gomez!) and "What is Jess and Claire's favorite sport?" We were a little confused at the favorite sport question, both thinking it was soccer, but then we realized it was frisbee.  Jeopardy was really fun, especially since the teachers and program directors got really into it.  After the break, we played a few quality games led by our German class, including hangman, charades, and karaoke.  Hangman was really funny since Dionysios used German words for myopia, racial discrimination, and fungal disease.  Karaoke was also memorable singing 99 Luftballons, Europameister, and the Oktoberfest song and dance.  It was a great way to end German class.

During the afternoon, Claire and I finished watching Twilight.  Then a few of us tried to tour the 6 breweries of Munich.  We only made it to two, and it was cold and rainy.  Luckily Clement's cheesy pick up lines worked so well that I was able to share his umbrella :).

Finally, we had a farewell dinner at Paulaner, another brewery.  All of the students, tutors, teachers, and program directors were there.  The food was very good.  Before the food got there, however, there were a few speeches.  Corina started her speech with, "All good things come to an end."  Then she gave us our transcripts - and we all passed!  Professor Grayson also had a very memorable speech.  At one point, he got very serious and said, "...Throughout this trip, I've learned that no matter where we're going, where we are in town, which visit we're headed to, the way to find where you're going is always to follow the bouncing Mexican."  Everyone was laughing pretty hard after that.

The evening continued with lots of picture taking, dessert ordering, and drinking with program advisors and professors. We even got Professor Grayson to do the Nanokitty dance!  It was a really great last dinner with everyone, and it was sad to say goodbye.  Luckily, there was still one more day to see almost everyone.

Most of the group and tutors at Paulaner for the Farewell dinner

4/5 of the Kieferngarten Gang

Fountain in Munich (thanks Christina for the rain jacket!)