Friday, July 21, 2006

We have arrived in Hambourg

Hello everybody!!
Soo...there have been a few exciting things that have happened since I last wrote. Last weekend we headed to the Baltic Sea, to Warnemüne, a beautiful beach town (pretty touristy) but beautiful none the less. When we left, we didnt think that we would have a problem finding a place to stay, but...we were definitely VERY wrong. When we arrived, big backpacks on, all of the hotels and hostels were full. Sooo...here we are lying on the beach with all of our baggage, and no home! By this time, we are willing to pay any amount for a place to sleep, but no luck. Haha...sooo...our next plan...try to find some nice people on the beach who are locals, or who are vacationers to feel sorry for us and offer a space on their floors.
So all afternoon we were scoping out people on the beach trying to filter out the creepy looking ones (we're desperate, but not that desperate), finally we see these two German guys who had been sitting next to us all afternoon. They seemed very nice, but with our luck, they had no house or hotel, they were travelling and sleeping in their car, so they offered to keep our bags and we went out with them that night and we decided to sleep on the beach in the dunes. So we went to sleep, and woke up to the sunrise, we got up, and headed to the bus station to go to Rostock to meet our boss for a brushup training on the beach in a town near by.
Our next stop was still at the Baltic Sea, in a little town called Barth. Where Jussie and I would work the overnight camp with 16 campers. One perk: this camp was a horseback riding camp. So we would ride horses, and swim in the ocean and enjoy a nice week in week cabins. We each had our own rooms at this camp. We felt pretty high class, as last week we were sleeping in tents, on air mattresses, and in this camp we have our own bathrooms and we sleep with sheets!!!! haha...anyways...this week seemed to be working without any problems. Our kids were wonderful, we loved the facilities, and the food was as good as german food gets, so we couldn't complain about anything, until Wednesday night rolls along. Jussie wakes me up and informs me that she and a bunch of her campers have been up all night with some sort of flu. In the morning we find out that 6 of our campers were up throught the night vomiting as well as 6 others from another camp using the same facilities. This seems very strange to us, so we called in a doctor, and our camp was quarantined from the rest of the camp. I was running the camp, cleaning, and trying to keep the sick kids occupied as they are starting to feel a bit better while Jussie was in bed all day very sick. Through all of this I can't decide if my queeziness is due to paranoia of catching this terrible virus, or if I have in fact caught whatever it is that is going around.
Anyways the doctor diagnosed all 13 sickies with heatstroke (kind of a poor diagnosis ) I think it's got to be the water or the food. It was 36 degrees this week, so the water could have been growing strange things. And to top off this week, this morning I woke up with a terrible headache and as though I was going to be sick! Luckily today was the last day of this camp, and we got a ride to hambourg with one of our campers.
We arrived in Hambourg tonight only to find out that all of the hostels are FULL!! This really nice lady at the hostel is letting us stay in the main room of the hostel, so we're happy that we don't have to sleep on the streets. We pay 10 euros for the floor!!! haha...oh well, that's Europe in peak tourist season for you I guess.
Anyways, I must go to bed now, as I want to wake up headache free!!
Sorry I havnt got any pictures up, I dont have a computer of my own. I hope to keep updated more often now, we havn't had internet at the last 2 camps so hopefully when we head to Hannover on Sunday we will have more frequent access!!!
Good night

2 Comments:

At 7:45 p.m., Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey maggie and jussie...just thought i would check out what you ve been up to the last few weeks and im surprised at all the stuff you ve done so far...sounds like fun. anywasy miss you both and we will see you when you get back!
peace danneerhof

 
At 10:31 p.m., Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey Mag,
Well. just thought i'd check in and say hello. Your adventures sound like great fun minus the sleeping on the beach but i'm glad you're having fun. TTYL
Tay

 

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