{"id":625,"date":"2017-04-30T21:29:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T21:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=625"},"modified":"2017-08-10T23:59:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T23:59:38","slug":"osterferien-easter-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/2017\/04\/30\/osterferien-easter-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Osterferien (Easter Break)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" Dear Reader,<\/p>\n

I am on Osterfeiern!\u00a0 Currently, I am traveling through many European countries.\u00a0 Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, and France!\u00a0 So far on my journey (about a week in), I’ve been to the first three from the list.\u00a0 As I’m typing this, I am on route to the Netherlands.\u00a0 I’ll give you the highlights of my\"\" journey so far.
\nIn Switzerland I visited two cities: Bern and Thun.\u00a0 Bern was planned, Thun was more spur of the moment.\u00a0 One\"\" of my friends, that I’ve made while studying in Austria, has friends who study in Bern; they were more than happy to show us all of the two cities.\u00a0 In Thun, we sat by the lake and watched the boats and waves pass by.\u00a0 In Bern, we rented bicycles and rode around the city.\u00a0 Probably the most fun I’ve had in my whole life was going downhill.
\nAfter Switzerland, I journeyed to Brussels in Belgium.\u00a0 This time it was just Stephanie and I, so I wa\"\"s worried that it wouldn’t be as eventful at first.\u00a0 However, as soon as we checked into our hostel, I began conversing with my roommates.\u00a0 As it turned out, most of them were also on their uni\"\"versity’s Osterfeiern.\u00a0 After meeting them, we all set out into the city to sightsee.\u00a0 Over the course of the next two days, I grew very close to these new friends.\u00a0 So much so that it was hard to say goodbye when the time came to depart.\u00a0 We all exchanged social media information, so to keep in touch.
\nFrom Belgium, we went to Germany.\u00a0 Two cities where our destinations: K\u00f6ln (Cologne) and Berlin.\u00a0 Out of the two, I was more excited to see K\u00f6ln, given that I learned so much about it from my German class back at Arkansas Tec\"\"h University.\u00a0 Luckily for me, it was the first stop.\u00a0 I think the thing that I was most excited to see was the legendary K\u00f6lner Dom (Cologne Cathedral).\u00a0 Funny enough, it was right next to the train station we arrived in, but we didn’t notice it until the second time we went by it.\u00a0 Let me tell you, the Cathedral was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen in my whole life.\u00a0 I could have sat and looked at it forever.\u00a0 We even came back at night while it was lit up from the street lamps and moon and it was even more breathtaking.
\nIn Berlin, the capital of Germnay, I learned so much history concernin\"\"g the founding of Germany and Berlin itself.\u00a0 We saw the Berlin Wall and where it once stood all throughout the city.\u00a0 I even got a piece of it as a souvenier.\u00a0 I really wanted to see Angela Merkel, maybe even get a selfie with the legendary woman, but sadly I did not see her.
\nWell that is all that as passed so far.\u00a0 On my next blog post, after my trip, I will post what happens in the Netherlands and France.<\/p>\n

Until next time!<\/p>\n

Caleb Mott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Reader, I am on Osterfeiern!\u00a0 Currently, I am traveling through many European countries.\u00a0 Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, and France!\u00a0 So far on my journey (about a week in), I’ve been to the first three from the list.\u00a0 As I’m typing this, I am on route to the Netherlands.\u00a0 I’ll give you the highlights of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[24,46,49,47,50,45,48],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-atuglobal","category-graz-austria","tag-austria","tag-belgium","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-osterfeiren","tag-switzerland","tag-the-netherlands","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}