Day 2

I LOVED meeting the facetime buddies today! It was precisely the local interaction that I've been craving. Talking to Fernando, a Penn State student interning for the summer here, has been refreshing but he is just as new to Osnabrueck as we are and I want someone who is familiar with the town to show us it's hidden gems. Hanging out at Grunejager, a local pub, with the buddies listening to their stories, sharing our own, making plans, etc was not all that different from meeting new people in the States but the actual content of our discussion left me with a lot tot think about. The ways that we are different, the ways that we are the same. They usually have American music playing and w learned that out music actually dominates their top 40, but like me, many of the Germans prefer to listen to indie and alternative music instead of radio. At the Maibrock festival I actually heard one cover band playing Wonderwall in german.