<p>Hey Sarah,</p>
<p>Crud. I just saw that you mentioned advanced German. How do I miss this stuff? Better brush up on my reading skills. Let’s see if I can make this short, cause there’s a lot to say about the German school I did.</p>
<p>School name: Sprachenkolleg fuer Auslaendishe Studierende. You sign up for 3-month courses that start at specific times. I think that the cost now for tution is around 800 euros – for 3 months! </p>
<p>The school was no-frills, and a lot of work. I got more handout sheets for homework there than at any other school I’ve been to! The school is in Freiburg, Germany, just north of Base, Switzerland. Freiburg was absolutely postcard/picture beautiful! Has a university, plenty of restaurants, you name it.</p>
<p>I had to arrange my own housing – that was difficult and you’d have to do it in advance. I stayed in a Catholic Student Dorm (you don’t have to be catholic to stay there, nor do you have to “practice”). The dorm was called Alban-Stolz-Haus. They have a website: [Katholisches</a> Studentenwohnheim - Alban Stolz Haus - Freiburg](<a href=“http://site.albanstolzhaus.de%5DKatholisches”>http://site.albanstolzhaus.de) You have to apply in advance. (There are other dorms, contact the school to see if they can give you info.)</p>
<p>As I write this, I can still here the names of the Strassenbahn stops being announced on the speakers of the Strassenbahn. Go to Flickr and check out pictures of Freiburg.</p>
<p>Also, after 6 months I took the Pruefung nach deutscher Sprachkenntnisse – and I passed! So I extended my stay in Germany and enrolled at the University of Freiburg as a guest student for semester. The whole thing was great!</p>
<p>PS – I actually met a guy at the school from Ohio who didn’t know where to go in Germany, so he got a map of Germany, closed his eyes, twirled the map around a few times, and then (without opening his eyes) put his finger on the map. “Wherever my finger landed, was where I was going” he said. His finger landed on Freiburg. I just think that’s so totally cool!</p>
<p>Ok, fingers falling off again!</p>