Our first morning with our exchange students started out with cool and cloudy weather in Oberusel. After a short and very relaxing German breakfast in my exchange partner’s front yard, we piled in the car and headed off to the train station to see his grandparents in Leipzig. Of course we experienced some German traffic entering Frankfurt, but once we got through it all we were on our way to the train station at great speed and across a bridge giving us a wonderful view of the Frankfurt skyline. When we got to the train station, we quickly jogged to the rails and hopped on an ICE (Intercity Express) train, where we sat in our seats and watched the countryside whiz by on our 3-hour ride. Upon arrival we met with my exchange partner’s grandparents, with whom we had a wonderful time walking around the center of Leipzig where people where walking around, music was playing, and smells of good food filled the streets. We topped it all off with a view from Leipzig’s panoramic tower and a bowl of ice cream in spaghetti form. Tonight I sleep in Naunhof, a tiny classic German town with only 8,000 residents, and it is very beautiful. Overall another fun day in Germany, and as they say in German: auf Wiedersehen! ~Dunning H.