My European Trip!

Hello everyone, I hope all is well! First I want to say HAPPY MOTHERS DAY to my mom! I love you!

We made it to Stuttgart just after 9am and Cody, Kelly, Kristin and I made the journey by subway to the Porsche Museum! This was was the number one museum on my list to see in Germany. It was such an amazing experience. Many of you know I'm a car nut, and I dream about having a Porsche (which I will). The building itself is simply amazing. They actually offer tours just inform those interested about the building. It was opened in January of 2009 so it is very new. I walked around for a majority of the museum with my jaw dropped to floor. To see these Porsche's in person is just crazy. Notably the 959, which still to this day is one of the more rare to find of all Porsche's. In America there maybe are 5 to 10. Bill Gates bought one and it had to sit on the import docks in California for 2 years before he could take delivery because of all the crazy smog restrictions we have. I bought a really cool coffee mug too, so I can remember my trip every morning while sipping my coffee. Someday I will put it will sit in my Porsche cup holder.


After the museum we met up with Wes and Anjali at the Frühlingsfest which is a spring festival. Some call it a mini Oktoberfest. It included rides and all the carnival stuff that we are used too. The main difference was the enormous tents for drinking beer, eating roasted chicken, with a lot of singing and dancing! Explaining this place just doesn't do it justice. It was such an awesome experience! We rode on the Ferris wheel, a log ride, and a roller coaster! We all had an awesome time. I think one of the best part of these trips is having a good group of friends to experience it with. We all get along well and enjoy each others company, which makes sightseeing a lot more fun. We made it back just before 10pm and everyone was exhausted and happy.

Last week, we had "Project Management" class. It was good and bad. We learned how to use Microsoft Project, sort of. The professor was form Texas and was very interesting to say the least. I think one of the biggest adjustments of being here is the change of professors from OSU that we are used to where everything is explained and gone over, or at the very least we have a text book to read from. Many of the students struggled dealing with her. I kept my usual sense of humor about the whole class, and I felt it went pretty well. I enjoy learning programs on the computer so I found it very interesting working with MS project. The only thing was the professor didn't know how to even turn on the projector screen...haha..it was an interesting class. We were definitely ready for the weekend after that week. On Friday, we got our class overview for this week. It came with a poem, so once again I'm sure we are in for a treat.


We got our 12 day trip planned out, and I'm really looking forward to it. It starts in Zermatt, Switzerland where we will be snowboarding for 3 days. Then we are going to Paris, France where I get to see the Bowlby family. I am really excited for that! That trip is followed up by Amsterdam, then a long train ride home. We originally were going to travel to Venice, but many of our friends here said that Venice is smelly and we would enjoy Amsterdam more. That isn't for several weeks though, so check back when you have time! Take care everyone,


-Chad