The BEE STING to the NECK

Well... blogs are supposed to be about program stuff so I will first talk about the amaying first week I've had so far before I go into the awkward and not so funny moments. And please mind my spelling...I donät know how to do the spell check on this computer because I'm just typing in the blog box rather than on Word.

Probably the most memorable moment of the week was the Cathedral in Köln. It was truly an amaying architectual achievement by man. I say this because it never really looked real to me. It looked like a picture from up close and far away. I've seen Notre Dame in Paris and even that paled in comparison to this massive cathedral which I learned (from the very exclusive tour that needs to be booked one year in advanced) has the largest free swinging bell of any cathedral in the world! The name of the bell is St. Peter and weighs 23 tons!! I couldn't believe that when I heard her say how much a single bell weighed! It only rings one day a year and that is on Easter Sunday. Steffi, my host mother has been great as a host mother. Dinner has always been very good and today we had a really German dinner with some big potatos and vegetables with some fish. I don't know if fish is really Germanesque but the potatos and other parts of the meal certainly were.

We also went on a scavenger hunt with the group which turned out to be more fun than I thought it was going to be because it required that we actually interact with the Bonn denizens. We also found out a lot about Bonn and learned how to navigate the city.

Ok now to the awkward stuff. I am known in my group as being the expert navigator because I find my way around the city so well... ;). Well, today for some reason people got the idea to follow me from the AIB to the Bonn Central Station. I was showing some people my wine cork trick and lost track of time and it seemed to me that we had been on the bus for a while so I got off on the stop I believed to be the one at the station.
It turned out to be a stop too early and everybody got on my case about it!!! During the yelling at me a bee decided to punish me too and it stabbed me in the neck with it's stinger! It really surprised me. Shyanie pulled out the stinger and we continued on with our day...good times in Germany :)