Holy Crap: Lost Time (Part II)

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Okay the Title above is completely correct (HOLY CRAP). After almost a full month of reduced internet connection I'm back and ready to kick some blogosphere ass. So now I'm in Leipzig (pronouned: LIE-p-sig) and since I've been here I've seen some pretty entertaining things and met some quite entertaining people. So that this blog remains readable I'm going to do multiple postings over the next few days. First let me tell you about Leipzig: This city is one of stark contridicitons it is wide and home to about 500,000 and everywhere you look you can see them. This city was part of the GDR (German Democratic Republic or the former Communist East Germany). Because of that you can see evidence from the past everywhere you look. The downtown area of the city is very modern and attractive but just outside there are buildings that are being renewed sitting next to ones that are crumbling to the ground. I live in a very grand old building that was brought to Leipzig as a gift from Stalin my apartment is spacious and I live with a man who has hosted PPPlers (people from my program) for quite a number of years. Well I'm going to conclude this blog and come back tomorrow with some thoughts on state communism tomorrow.

Well the picture that I am choosing to show is of the Volkerschlact Denkmal, which is a memorial of a very large, tragic, and bloody battle of the napoleonic wars in the 19th Century.