Frankfurt am Main: das Haus der Jugend: Backpackers' Lounge
2:00 PM (14:00)
Our mission today was to buy monatskarte (month tickets for the u-bahn (subway), s-bahn (local trains), strassebahn (trams), and buses) and explore one of the campuses of Goethe Uni Frankfurt. We set off to the tram station near the hostel but discovered that the machines there did not sell monatskarte. So from there, we took an unnecessarily round-about series of trams to the main station where we eventually realized that we couldn't buy monatskarte either, or at least we were pretty sure we couldn't--our German sucks...bad.
Undaunted, we set off on foot for the Bockenheim campus of the university, the largest of the three of four scattered about the city. It was a good twenty minute walk along a tree-lined avenue with views of buildings that would have been impressive to someone who had never been to or seen pictures of Manhattan. Given our background, we were unimpressed.
When we arrived in the campus area we found a typical urban university feel--modern classroom buildings interspersed with sculptures, giant dinosaurs, cafes, and museums. It did lack the natural beauty and cohesive architecture of TCNJ, but it was beautiful in a whole different way. We're all looking forward to seeing what the other campuses (campi?) have to offer, but that is another day.
Ffm Observations:
cool graffiti
lots of museums
surprising amount of ice cream parlours (they dont call them that though, which bums me out because i love that term)
im starting to get the impression that (as I was previously told) everyone here speaks English, but many of them refuse to...conspiracy? anti-americanism? anti-lizism???
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