Finally, a week where there will be multiple sunny days!! I took the days when it didn't rain for granted. Today, I spent most of the day outside, and so did everyone else. I got a few things knocked off my Lüneburg "to see" list. I went to Adana Dostlar, which is an outstanding Turkish restaurant right by the city center. I had a good-bye lunch with my German tandem partner (I speak English to her, she speaks German to me), since she is leaving for the US to study abroad. Over the past few weeks, I've noticed that not only has my German gotten significantly better, but I have also gained confidence in speaking it. In some ways, forming German sentences is like doing an equation. The sentence structure is subject + verb+ object. The verb must ALWAYS be in second position. So if a time and place take the first position, then the subject position must be rearranged.
Anyway, I also went to the brewery museum, next to a Bier Garten. It was really interesting, it had all of the tools used to make a big vat of beer, including some vats. I later went to Kalkberg, a huge hill that's a "mountain" and where they used to mine for salt until the 1980s when salt was no longer profitable. Later on I went to an organ concert at the nearby St. Nicholas church. They played one of Bach's fugues, which sounded really cool. I accidentally coughed during the performance, but no one looked at me because of the interruption; it was if everyone was in some sort of trance.
It's supposed to be sunny for the rest of the week, and I plan to take full advantage. Tomorrow I am going on a guided tour of Kloster Lüne, an abbey that was built around 1,000 years ago.
Until next time!
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