This past week has been nonstop! Last Friday, September 27th, we packed our bags and left Vienna. 😦

We spent Friday and Saturday in Salzburg, Austria, Sunday in Frankfurt, Germany and Monday in Heidelberg, Germany. On Tuesday morning we woke up at 5am to catch our train to take us to our final destination: Marburg! For the past few days we have been participating in the International Students Orientation Program at University of Marburg (Phillips Unviersitaet). We have gotten a city tour and will soon be choosing our classes for the semester!

While I am missing Vienna, it’s exciting to be settling into university life again. We have already met so many young students from around the world, and of course you can’t go across the world without meeting someone who lives less than two hours away from you. My first two minutes in Marburg and I met someone from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Small. World.

Our classes don’t start until October 14th, so we have a bit of time to explore the city and get used to our new housing arrangements. If you were wondering, we live on the literal side of a mountain. There is an elevator down to the lower part of town and we have to walk down flights of stairs to even get to the elevator. It’s wild.

This weekend however, we will not be in Marburg. As I write this I am on a bus going to Munich! It’s the last weekend of Oktoberfest/Wiesn here. Our roommate from Vienna is a Munich native and has generously offered us her guest house to stay for the night. 🙂 Tomorrow we will go to Oktoberfest and then take an overnight bus back to Marburg. It should be fun!! We are really excited to get to experience an authentic Oktoberfest with our old roomie.

I will post pictures below from our travels between countries and the few I have taken so far of Marburg! Bis bald and thanks for reading!

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