Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Paderborn, Day 8

Today I had a flight back to Spain from Frankfurt Hahn, but after looking at maps, and talking with the others, we decided that what seemed to be a 5 hour drive to Frankfurt and then 5 hours back would have been a waste of gas and time. So I bought a new flight that left on the 11th corresponding with Supy and Leanne's departure from Cologne.
So with that out of the way, we headed to Paderborn for a day seeing the city. We started out at Eva's university, which was cool. An industrial looking building, but very interesting indeed. We had mainly stopped in there to use the wifi so Leanne could find out what train to take and from where to get to Nurnburg.
After that, we wandered the streets for a while. While we were walking through some of the smaller central streets, we ran into a bunch of freshmen college boys being hazed. They were being made to walk through this plaza in their boxers and underwear, and then having to stand in the fountain in the center while singing the German national anthem. Needless to say, Leanne LOVED this! She couldn't stop laughing and TAKING PHOTOS! This plaza was the center of the walking area, and we ended up walking through it about 3 times, and each time, there was a different group of boys. Leanne honestly had the time of her life! We had lunch in this cool little restaurant where we had the most awesome waitress ever. After seeing lots of neat stuff, like the cathedral, the Hauptbahnhof (exciting for me anyways..) and her university, we headed back to Geseke.
Once back, we just packed some stuff up and relaxed some more. Eva went and got us some movies to see, which we watched and just had a very chill night. We needed it, since the next day would be such a big day for each of us.

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