A Day in Cologne

Yesterday we went to the beautiful city of Cologne, which is luckily only a 20 minute train ride from my school. The Cathedral is the highlight of the city as it is rated as one of the most exquisite in the entire world! It is one of the few landmarks that survived the second world war, and has some of the most intense architectural features I have ever seen! My first reaction when seeing this work of art was priceless.... I swear my jaw dropped to an abnormal length! There were statues of saints and prophets and gargoyles, and glowing windows with scenes from both the new and old testament. Our professor hooked us up with a sweet tour that allowed us to go on the side railings near the top of the Cathedral (as seen in the video) and then we also got to up an extra few hundred stairs to the very top of the Dome where you can see the entire city! This tour also let us go into the workshops where we learned how these structures were created. We were very lucky, because most tourists cannot see such things, however, my professor knew somebody that worked at the Cathedral so we got lucky!
Today we had class and watched President Obama's Inauguration with some students from the University of Bonn. It was very interesting discussing politics with German people, they seem to be fascinated by the American Ways, and are more enthusiastic about Obama then a great deal of people in our own country!


Tomorrow we will be going to an art museum and getting everything all sorted out for our weekend trip to Amsterdam! Woohoo!!!



p.s. That pic is really a pic I took.... the lighting was perfect that day!!!!!