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What we did:
We went to a Gästhaus that was built in the Middle Ages (HOW EFFING COOL IS THAT? EFFING COOL!) Seriously, it was sweet. It looked so old and cool and great and old. And cool.
And we really did go for a roll in the hay with the boys: we were all sleeping in the hayloft of the barn, middle-ages style. It was fricken cool. and also cold. But soooo fun. And we went on one of those ropes courses, things, you know like you put on a harness and then clamber through the wires and jump and swing through the trees like a~~n elf~~ monkey? Yeah, I'm sore. But I completed ALL of it. And impressed the Germans. Probably because they thought Americans are lazy (we all finished it, thx.) And then we went to Mödlareuth where there is a museum from the days of the German-German border. It was awful how they kept East Germans away from the wall...And I understand the Berlin Wall so much better now. There's a museum in Mödlareuth (which is called 'Little Berlin') because it'S a town of fifty people (read it, FIFTY. Follow that link and scroll down to the second picture- that's the WHOLE town (without the museum).)

And they built a concrete wall right through the middle of it.

There's a story of two brothers split by that wall, where what once was a minute's walk and a hop over a tiiiiny creek, in order for the East German brother to visit the West (vice versa was not allowed), it took a six hour train-and-bus journey. One minute.

I hopped over the little creek, and I touched the East side of the piece of wall still standing. And it was really humbling, how easy it was for me, and how impossible it was to East Germans for 24 years.

As a side note, George Bush, Sr. visited Mödlareuth while VP under Reagan =D It's romored that, instead of Kennedy's „Ich bin ein Berliner“ (as the tour guide translated, I am a jelly donut), Bush said „Ich bin ein Mödlareuther“. They seem pretty proud of this.

Yeah, Little Berlin. If you have any questions about the German-German border...Well that's what comments are for!

The Inbounds:
Tim, from ChicAHgo, we call Cameron because he looks like Cameron from Ferris Beuller's Day Off. (I We kept singing 'Let my Cameron...gooo..' Which I could do because for some reason my voice dropped an octave this weekend...and now it's dying...) And Cory aus Alaska is hot and looks like Peter Pan from Hook only with dark hair. And he's hot. Unfortunately they and Kaity (-_-;;) from Indiana all kept talking about drinking games and all that typical crap, ugh. But Steph the Aussie and Laura aus Finland were also cool (the Fins and I were *not* dancing like the crazy Latinos...and Cameron kept trying to get the girls to grind -_-,,,) Speaking of the Latinos, Lucas and I talked about Eva and other Old School anime! He's from Brazil. Also it was hard for me to like the Latinos because they were always loud, and sitting down in other people's seats (where they have full plates and teacups and just went to the bathroom or something) and talking all night after curfew when there are Finnish people trying to sleep and they've been told to shut up twice by Rotex. But then I remember Lili Bikini. And I suppose that's the point of Rotary Youth Exchange.

Also, to the Latina who did that 'exchange a look with my latina chicas and then sing 'American Idiot' at me: If you're trying to insult me for being an American, don't do it by singing a song in English by an American band while wearing American Eagle. Because you just look stupid and I laugh at you. kthxbai.

Mää tahtoo veivaa veivaa. Mää tahtoo, VEIVAA! (I like to move it move it in the original Finnish!)