Rügen

Last weekend my host family and I visited Rügen, an island in the Baltic Sea in northeast Germany. I believe it was one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen, even in extremely cold, windy, dark-at-five weather. Honestly, the pictures I have don’t do it justice. The leaves were changing, but there were no brown leaves in sight, so even the forest floor was carpeted in red leaves.

On Saturday we hiked through the woods along the coast to the next town, where we did a bit of shopping and a bit of cake eating. We bought an inexpensive kite and ran around the beach with it for a bit, something I haven’t done in years. We also went in a kind of capsule underneath the Ost See and saw lots of jellyfish. We walked back along the beach and, since it gets dark so early, spent a pleasant evening at home. On Sunday on our way back we stopped at an aquarium, Ozeanium Strasiland, voted Europe’s best museum in 2010. There, we saw more jellyfish.

Wichtige Wörter:

• die Ost See - Baltic Sea
• das Meer - sea
• der Drachen - kite (ours was a friendly looking blue jellyfish)
• die Qualle - jellyfish