Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Oh, by the way, there's a cultural festival going on. OR the popes visitors

Ok, so today was supposed to be the first day of my language camp, but, apparently my German was good enough that I didn't have to take it (they didn't say you could test out until today) so, instead of German, the other out-tester and I just wandered the streets of Bern, where all of a sudden, we came upon a group of people dancing in a circle, playing catchy traditional sounding music. So, of course, we gawker some, until two very nice young guys came up to us, and explained that they were Catholic people from Germany on their way to see the Pope, and that we were both invited to dance with them, and go to see the Pope with them. Of course, given a chance to dance in public I will rarely turn it down, so we danced for a while, posed for some photo ops, and then declined their generous offer of a trip to Italy. When I got back to Fribourg (which is only a short trainride away), we went into town, and there was a parade of people wearing different traditional costumes, dancing and playing traditional music. Oh, by the way, there's a culture fest today!!! Then we biked back to the home, which is not far, but it's all uphill on the way back.

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