I'm an officially registered resident of Germany now, and have been for almost two weeks. I reside in student housing, a building with more than 400 efficiency apartments. Mine has approximately 20 square meters to enclose my bed, a kitchenette, a bathroom, a closet about 2.5 feet wide, large windows, a book case, a large table, and a small table. It costs me 317 Euro a month. It's well worth the view of the rising moon from my fourth floor window facing the city by the river Rhein.
This caught my attention when I should have been practicing my talk for the following morning's group meeting...
...and I kept watching her as she rose above the town.
Earlier that day, I wondered into town after writing the presentation for a couple hours at the university. I hoped to attend Spektrale, a heavily acclaimed exhibition about the aesthetic and scientific aspects of color. I mapped the location, about a 45 minute walk to the hall just next to the river. Google gave me some walking instructions. Of course, I'd left my map at home, so I just jotted down the turn by turn directions. I set out around 3:30pm, knowing that at best I would arrive just in time to enough of the exhibition that closed at 6. But Mainz was a Medieval town, and the inner city is still full of narrow stone paths, stairways, and paved bus roads weaving among each other and around major plazas, churches, state buildings, etc. My impulse for exploring new paths and ascending hills as I come upon them quickly led me off the earlier charted path, not to my dismay though. I found myself at the Zitadel as rain began to sprinkle down.
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| The front of the Zitadel |
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| View of the town from the Zitadel |
The rain lasted only a few minutes and never truly intensified. I passed this sundial,
then wondered around the buildings, then looked out onto the town for the second time, and was treated to my own color exhibit!
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