Sarah's Travel Blog: München (Munich)

I think a new thing Experiment e.V. (German partner with CIEE) is currently trying is having touring trips in major German cities for its exchange students in Germany. Everyone was invited to attend a 4-day-3-night trip to München (or Munich), but only 20 of us decided to attend (the trip was on the slightly expensive side, but I thought it was very worth it).

I got to München HBF on Wednesday (Oct. 8th… I know, this post is very late, will explain later) and I was a hour early, so I just went around the HBF looking at the little shops and the book shops, then I discover two CBYXers were at the Starbucks, so I went and joined them and had a nice talk before we had to go to the meeting spot. Then!!! I discovered that Sarah (the teamer from language camp) was one of our teamers in München!!! I was super excited to see her again (and now that I’m writing about her, I remembered that I haven’t contacted her yet.. ops)

We then went to the hostel that we will be staying at for the next few days and had a nice German dinner (Spätzle, I got the vege version though, they ran out of meat…) then had get to know you activities since not all the people there knew each other (there were like 8-9 CBYXers though). After that we had time to unpack and get the bed sheets, etc.

The next day, we all had breakfast, got our bus tickets and maps and headed out to München City center. We saw Marienplatz first, then had a guided tour through the main city. We learned about the origin of the city (monks lived here, grew because of salt export), saw St. Peter’s tower, Hofbräuhaus, Frauenkirche and the marketplace. After the tour we had free time for lunch, and Charlotte, Lyndee, Olivia, Maygen and I decided to go to the Hard Rock Café for lunch and because they wanted to buy a shirt. But… we forgot that in Germany, the servers take their time with the order, and the food takes its time to arrive cause most of the time if Germans go out to eat, they spend a couple of hours talking and eating, but we didn’t have a couple of hours, we had about one hour to for eating, but we didn’t get our food until 5 mins before we had to leave, so we had to wolf down our food (we also felt bad about confirming American Stereotypes instead of getting rid of them).

Then we got to go to the Deutsches Museum. I think any other time I would have enjoyed the Museum, but by the time we got there, I was already a little exhausted from all the walking (and because we went to bed really late but woke up really early) I mainly sat in one of the exhibitions and stayed there most of the time. The museum is a science museum though, so a lot of the stuff you really need to have some knowledge about the topic to find it interesting.

After the Deutsches Museum we went to see the Parliament building, then had free time for dinner. We actually got to meet up with another CBYXer that lives in the area (Kali) and we went to a couple of shops (one of the friends got two dirndl, which is a traditional German dress) then got some food (well, I got an Ice Shake... haha no real food for me)

Pictures: