Hedersleben, Quedlinburg, Host Family

Thursday, August 21, 2014


21. August

After 10 days in Hedersleben, the Kloster and the town feel like home. We eat three meals a day in the main hall downstairs (I eat mainly potatoes, bread, and cheese), in between which we go to class, do homework, and have free time to explore the village. Hedersleben is a peaceful and quiet town that is very welcoming to us, even if sometimes we are as loud as “typical Americans.” I’ve met some locals, including a farmer who showed me around his farm and introduced me to his dogs, ponies, chickens, and baby rabbits.

Last week, we took two field trips. The first was to Quedlinburg, a town of about 20,000 people not far from Hedersleben. Quedlinburg has many old churches and a castle up on a hill. The city has been very well kept and hundreds of half-timbered houses still line the streets. The beauty of the town has been particularly well-kept because the city was almost entirely untouched by World War II.

Drawing of Quedlinburg from up on the hill by the castle. There are many, many old churches!

Another attempt at capturing how all the roofs looked from above.

One tower of the castle.


We took another day-trip to Leipzig. I walked about 7 kilometers and got a good view of the city on a nice sunny day.

Big news: I got my host family! I will be living in the middle of Duisburg, a city of about 490,000 in the state Nordrhein-Westfallen, which is in western Germany and about 70 kilometers north of Cologne on the Rhein River. I will live with host parents, a younger host sister, and a host brother who is my age but will be beginning University this fall. I will move to Duisburg on September 6th!

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