tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173132782011-04-21T22:28:35.520+02:00Weblog and Travelogue.Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10229676769643652395noreply@blogger.comBlogger271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17313278.post-60830231496238205862008-05-09T00:30:00.002+02:002008-05-09T01:08:41.940+02:00

I'm sure it's never good to start out with an apology, but I'll take that risk.  So here goes... I'm sorry I haven't been up on my blogging recently.  I know everyone is just dying to know what's going on my life and every day that goes by update-less on this site is another sad day in the lives of many of my friends and relatives.  Not to make excuses, but my reasons for updating are two-fold: (

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I guess I can now say I've seen at least four major European cities in the rain.  We headed out on Friday for Prague from the Vienna Erdberg bus station with the foreknowledge that the weather in that city would not be "springlike," and I grabbed my umbrella on a whim.  I was  unfortunately vindicated in my decision to bring the umbrella when it rained all day Saturday during our tour.  It rained

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After a few weeks back in Vienna it's time to be a tourist again.  This weekend, our program is heading to Prague for some sightseeing.  We'll be touring with the group and my friends and I will be meeting up with some other Americans studying abroad in the city.  We'll also get the chance to practice a little currency exchange outside the Euro Zone. As I was prepping and packing, I realized that

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Since coming to Vienna, I've been buying six eggs a week at the supermarket, saving them for the weekends, when I have the time to make myself a more elaborate breakfast, usually something between fully-loaded scrambled eggs and a messy omelet.  I look forward to this weekend meal as a bastion of Americanness in my week otherwise full of breakfasts of European cereal, bread, and espresso (I make

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I have good news everyone!  I'm not dead.  I blame my past week-and-a-half's absence on the good ol' "need a vacation from my vacation" syndrome.  It has been quite a busy week since Michael left, what with all the important things I had to do, like putting off signing up for next semester's classes until absolutely the last second, trying to help co-edit a literary magazine across the Atlantic

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It's been a long couple of days full of traveling and various adventures. For starters, Tommy and I visited Venice and saw the main attraction: the church that was filmed as the outside of the Venice library in Indian Jones and the Last Crusade! I knew it as soon as I saw it. Tommy and I stopped in the square there to have a bite to eat, and I prayed we would see Indy come climbing out of the

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So as it turns out, my headcold, or whatever it is I've come down with, has been more tenacious than originally believed. It's been somewhat of a rollercoaster, actually. Most mornings, I feel pretty crappy and it tends to get better throughout the day. It really isn't a potent cold, but not feeling 100% while you're on vacation can make it a somewhat uphill battle to enjoy what it is you're

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It seemed like an ill portent when I awoke on the morning of my travels with a sore throat. Things went from bad to worse, of course, when I realized in the airport that didn't need to worry about checking any liquids because I had completely forgotten my toiletry kit! And, finally, as we touched down in Rome and were greeted by the blazing sun, I realized that I had over-packed on layers and

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On the eve of my departure to Rome for Easter break, I realized that I had been neglecting my blog since coming to Vienna.  I've been very busy getting settled in for my four-month-long stay, buying the essentials: kitchen utensils, a semester ticket for the Vienna public transportation system, a europe-friendly cell phone, Coheed & Cambria concert tickets, you know, the basics. We started our

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This is only the briefest of posts to be made here. I'm sitting in a Viennese internet café because I can't recieve the internet in my dorm until tomorrow. We hit the ground running when we got here and I've been running around getting things in order, buying a semester ticket for the train system, getting sheets for my bed, buying a pay-by-the-minute phone (that I accidentally killed by trying

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Time has sped back up in Germany. The past week has gone by very quickly and I've begun to realize that the time has come to say goodbye to Schwäbisch Hall and Germany, both of which have begun to feel a lot like home. When we first arrived, two months seemed like such an incredibly long time to be in a foreign place, but I guess it makes sense that the less foreign a place becomes the shorter

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Remember all my griping in my last post about how my class was too easy?  I take it all back.  As it turns out, the easy teach was only a week-long substitute for our new teacher, a man who looks like a young Einstein and sounds more like a German than anyone else I've met so far.  He has a very different teaching style from the other teachers I've had up to this point, meaning that he's very

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Admittedly, the rate of adventure has certainly gone down since I have returned from Berlin.  The first week of our second-month course has gone smoothly and I feel pretty much settled back in Schwäbisch Hall.  After Berlin, it seems like someone has dialed down the speed of time in Schwäbs.  February means the start of our second course at the Goethe Institut, which in turn means a new teacher

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Yesterday, my group and I made a safe return to Schwäbisch Hall, via six or seven different trains totaling over 9 hours and with only one missed stop and subsequent re-routing.  Today has been full of rousing activities like laundry, grocery shopping, and the like.  However, I did post a whole bunch o' photos from Berlin and Dresden on my Facebook account.  I have just recently learned that I

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I got more use out of my zoom lense yesterday that perhaps I ever have before. Yep, I got an opportunity to do some "wildlife photography" during our trip to the Berlin Zoo. In general, it was a typical zoo experience, with the one major exception being that we got to see KNUT! In case you missed it, this polar bear (Eisbär) captured pretty much the whole world's attention about a year ago

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That's right! Only yesterday did yours truely visit several historical places in Berlin, one of which included the site of Hitler's bunker where we were invited by our tourguide to dance (and do a number of less polite things) over the location of his "cremation". Not only was this the site of Hitler's bunker, but it was only a hundred feet or so from the location of what was once the Berlin wall

Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10229676769643652395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17313278.post-73048301890791618762008-01-26T21:44:00.000+01:002008-01-26T21:57:57.559+01:00

After a long day on the train, Rachel, Tommy, Annie and I have made it to Dresden. We actually ended up sharing the train with several of our compatriots from the Goethe Institut who were heading back home, so the first train ride was a nice sort of unexpected reunion. It still hasn`t quite hit me that I`m spending the night in the city where Kurt Vonnegut was held as a prisoner of war. This

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What a busy week!  Since having recovered from my sickness I've been doing so much.  So here's the long and short of it.  On Tuesday, my friends and I decided to visit the town of Rothenburg, a city that is still contained within its medieval walls.  We hopped on a train after classes were over with the idea that we would be able to see the town and visit one of not some of the town's many

Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10229676769643652395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17313278.post-23967110026397613542008-01-19T15:43:00.000+01:002008-01-19T15:53:48.013+01:00

For about a week now, I've been fighting a cold that has come and gone again and again.  Eventually, I realized that the study abroad lifestyle isn't exactly well suited to getting better.  When you're here, you want to make the most of everything, seeing as much as you can see, doing as much as you can do, exploring as much as you can explore.  Unfortunately, that means always exerting yourself

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Before I settle in to watch the new Apple Keynote and salivate over all the new stuff, I need to relate a few amusing anecdotes from the Continent. Today Rachel (another American student here through Central College) and I went to the library to do homework / journal writing. We had noticed a seemingly random German street musician playing guitar outside the library, and I resolved to stop by

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A quick note: if you would like to pick up my RSS feed, enter the following address into your RSS reader: http://robshick.blogspot.com.  Also, check out the new post below.

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I realize it is necessary to make a qualification about my last post.  Though I may have gotten the wrong impression about the coldness of German beer from my German professor, he was most definitely right about its usefulness in lubricating the foreign language speaking process.  His theory was roughly this: one beer or so increases your language skill because it eases your feeling of

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The way my German professor described it to us there was not a cold beer to be found in all of Germany.  If that is true, Scwäbisch Hall is an island unto itself.  Home to the Haller Löwenbrauerei and their trademark brew, Haller Löwenbräu, Scwäbisch Hall seems to be somewhat well known for its beers, and they're all of them cold!  I tried their Edel-Pils with some sort of spinach-pocket local

Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10229676769643652395noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17313278.post-65695629934640070532008-01-08T18:48:00.000+01:002008-01-10T20:48:14.703+01:00

It is with a heavy heart and much trepidation that I resurrect this website from its former stagnant glory in an attempt to once again make it useful rather than a waste of both perfectly good space on the GoDaddy.com servers and 50 of my own dollars every two years.  In other words I guess it takes studying abroad to hasten me from my blogging slumber.  To that effect, I have decided to take

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Finally! The dawn of a new age! Ladies and gentelmen, Rob64.com is now a domain unto itself! I own it, I control it, and it's ll set up and ready to go. As the weeks and such pass, each of the departments will be fleshed out and there will be much rejoicing. In the mean time, enjoy what photography I have up.The only writing that will be up for a while are my editorials as published in The

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It is taking quite a while to get everything on to the site. I'm quite anal about certain things, so the photography process is especially laborious. However, it's getting there. As for my writing I'm still working out what I want to put on here. I really only want to post things that have been published. For those that have not, I may post them as in .pdf form. I'm still concidering it.

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As anyone who once visited this site should be able to tell, it has been completely re-made. No longer are the remnants of my sixth grade website present. The site is now completely devoted to my works (writing, photography, some graphic design, etc.). If none of the links work for a while, that's because they do not exist. However, they will as soon as I get the chance to make up the pages.

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