the 26th

August 26
I woke up around 7 and wrote about yesterday's journey in my journal. We had our first German breakfast and ate/talked for a couple of hours. After breakfast we had our first class on some steps by the church. We went over the syllabus for business writing and some other general trip stuff. We have some sort of writing assignment due in a couple days.
After class we numbered off and walked around town looking for restaurants that took credit cards. We didn't find any but Tom found one. We had until 4:30 to walk around town and do what we wanted, but first we ate at a Kebab stand. Kebabs are like gyros only much better, and the one I had here was a little hotter with some crushed red pepper. We found a cheap store like Aldi's and bought some delicious chocolate and other candy. We also found an old graveyard that was several hundred years old. We couldn't read any of the gravestones because they looked like they were in Hebrew. We later found out that it was a Jewish graveyard, so it was all in Hebrew.
At 430 we had a tour with a very British sounding guy who grew up in Gelnhausen. He didn't have a German accent at all so he must have lived in England for a while. He told us the history of the city, explaining that Gelnhausen was once the third biggest city in Germany. The city took a beating in the 30 years war and by the end less than ten percent of the population was still there. Our guide showed us the inside of the old church there and said that the people from Little People Big World were there a few weeks ago and he will probably be in that episode. His name was Jorg Hoeller.
After the tour we went out to dinner again and went to a fancy restaurant called Burg Muhle. I had a nice steak and potatoes. We explored the city some more in the dark while looking for a good place to look at the stars, but instead we found a playground and we had some fun there.