Hi everyone,

went to my first german aiesec conference this weekend. it was amazing. met tons of cool germans (and cool people from other countries) and got a huge booster to my german confidence. some people wouldn't believe i was american until i showed them my ohio id because my german is so good, so that was nice to hear. conferences there are very similar to in america, except with a lot more beer. the global village party where people set up tables with stuff from their areas was not so much showing people their respective cultures as showing off the local liquors, so the night got quite interesting very quickly.

this weekend i'll have to take some pictures of the christmas markets when they open, i don't really know how to describe it but i hear they're a ton of fun.

i have to keep it kind of short tonight, Brandon and I bought over 15 different kinds of Bavarian beer the other day and we're going to do a taste test tonight...i'll let you know which one's the best.

drop me a line sometime and let me know what's going on in all of your lives.

self, welcome to the life of the nomad.....

so i was sitting around my room today thinking. thinking about how coming here to munich meant that i never get to see half my friends again, at least not on a regular basis, cuz all you guys just have to graduate on time...jerks. thinking about how i'm making great new friends here in germany, who i'll rarely if ever see again after this year. thinking about how next year i'll be the one graduating and leaving even more friends, once again. thinking about how after that i'll hopefully get to do an internship abroad for a year or so, where once again i'll make new friends then leave them. wondering about what will become of me after that.

this is the life i'm choosing, and i wouldn't trade the decision for anything. i'm not really sad about it, don't worry, i'm actually really excited for it. just kind of a bummer.

happy post coming after the aiesec conference this weekend!

ZE AUSTRIANS ARE COMING!!!!!!!

all that happened was ty and brandon stole 2 beer glasses from the austrian restaurant, and they got pissed.......

millions and bazillions of thanks to cory brown for fine-tuning the pic...not that it didn't really happen that way, the pic just came out blurry that's all...i swear

Ok i'm really going to start updating this more often...sorry guys.

So what's been going on in the life of Adam for the past few weeks? lots, naturally. One of my favorite things that i've fallen in love with here is hiking. We're not talking about a stroll through the woods that you might think of when you think of hiking--it's more like climbing a mountain, as you can see in the pics if you've looked at those. The several hours of intense exercise are worth it by the time you get to the top, simply for the views that are more breathtaking than the process of climbing up there.

It's also quite convenient that they strategically position beer gardens on top of mountains with bitchin' soup. What better way to spend a weekend than drinking a beer on top of mountain with a delicious bowl of hot soup?


I'm starting to get pretty involved with AIESEC here, which will be great not only for my social life, but also for my German. This past weekend we had a little retreat for our new members and I didn't speak a single word of english from 9:30-4:30, and other than the headache from struggling to think of words, it felt great. The chapter here is amazingly organized, with I think around 15 trainees from around the world working here in Munich, many of whom i've met and are really nice and have some fun stories. An Aiesecer from Berlin related a story to me last week that gave me goosebumps when I heard it. In his Aiesec chapter at Berlin they always have around 50 trainees--huge. The trainees often organize their own events, so it will be about 5 Germans and 50 people from every other imaginable country at all their parties and things--quite fun. But what was most interesting was that in the community there were several Israelis and several Palestinians at the same time. When they first started finding each other in the same room it was extremely awkward, probably for everyone around, as i'm sure you can imagine. But after a few months of attending events and parties at the same time they gradually warmed up to each other, and by the end of their stay in Munich were talking and hanging out like old buddies.

I just thought that was a really cool example one of the big reasons I really like Aiesec.

that's all i got for now, but i'll try and keep updating this every few days or so, or at least to tell about cool stuff.