Munster, A Big city with a small town heart.

My weekend with my friend Jan has been one of the best weekends in a while. First of all my friend Jan was in my pre-cal class back in Tomball high school as he was a foreign exchange student in Tomball for a year and a great friend with me and all my friends back then. So i was just thrilled to see him because mostkt of the time when people visiting the states leave you say "hope to see you again some day" but you know in the back of your mind... you probablly won't. Friday night i flew from dresden to duesseldorf and we got some dinner and i went to a club with some of his friends that he went to law school with for just a year from i think the university of Passau. So he too was seeing old friends too. We then drove about an hour and a half to telgte at around 1 am... we we're swamped. The next day Jan gave me a great tour of Munster. It has over 10 old catholic churches and that day there just so happened to be a wochemenmarkt, which is a german outdoor market, basically a bunch of trailer stores with a jubile of cheese, meats and sweets like pretzels and waffles it was just great. I also got a tour of some beatiful buildings that we're rebuilt after the war cause even though the city was heavily bombed the germans from munster still wanted to keep an old town feel to the city when they rebuilt it.

From a city first founded as a monastery (munster derives from monastery) to a city with great shopping and a small town heart munster was a great visit . Finally that night Jan and I biked to a friends house on the other side of telgte and went to his friends birthday party... basically just a small gathering with about 8 or so guys and 2 of there girlfriends. it was really fun and i got to hear the techno version of that music germans sway too, ballermann hits, really a good time in all.

Now we are packing up to go to hannover as we will not have enough time to pass by gottingen because he starts school again tommorow but i can definantly say that i was very happy with my excursion to the rhineland for the last time this trip.