My Summer #2 (1/2)

Preface to the rest of this series; I would like to ask my family, if they are reading this to stop reading this series please. This piece will not have anything I don't want read, but I'm sure there'll be pieces in the future that are more personal, and I would not like read by y'all. Not because they are bad, just feelings I'd like to expound, but not have the people closest to me seeing. Love all of you and thank you for stopping reading this right now.

Link to part two of this piece

Family please don't read this

Okay, last we left off I had just come back from Paris, to Pirmasens, Germany. On Monday, my brother had to work, so my dad and I took a day trip to Luxembourg. We took a train bus combination to get to Luxembourg City. In Luxembourg City we saw Notre-Dame (Different Cathedral then the one in Paris), the Bock (An old, destroyed castle), and lots of small things. All these small things came from us walking around the streets of the city. Had a nice lunch at an outdoor café, and an overall pleasant time. What was really interesting about this day, was our ride back to Pirmasens. We first took a bus ride to get to a train station. The ride was supposed to be around an hour long, but due to an accident on the road it took around half an hour longer. This caused us to only have 5 minutes to find and get into our train, once we got to the station. We barely made it, but did end up getting in.

We walked into the one of the train's doors, and the one we chose had 5 men talking and standing in it. At the time it seemed just like a normal conversation. Well we sat down, and the train took off, and for about 10 minutes everything seemed normal. Then I started to hear yelling, and some of those men who previously looked like they were just talking, seemed to be in an argument. One of them actually came running down the train past us, trying to get one of the workers on the train to come to the scene. Well he kept yelling at her to come, and I don't know exactly what was said, because this was all in German, (I know with my German 2 skills I should totally be fluent, my bad) Anyway, it ended with the women locking herself in the front of the train with the conductor.

Now the conductor and this women were the only two employees I ever saw on the train, so with that all authority was gone. The fight seemed to heat up, and I'm pretty sure someone punched someone else. We eventually got to a stop, and over the intercom they told us they were calling for the police. At that point three people got out of the train, before the doors locked, and ran away into the station. Despite this their defiantly still seemed to be conflict going on, and yelling, which I still had no idea what it meant. Eventually 8 police officers came, and one dog. They went into the train, taking some people out for questioning it seemed, and like that a few minutes later we were back off.

On Tuesday, I went into my brothers lab and got to see what he was working on. He was working for a doctorial candidate testing alpine skies and how to decrease the friction and drag. Basically how to increase their speed, which they made out to be really hard, because so much has already been done. After that my father and I left for Heidelberg, Germany. We spent the last couple days of our trip their, eating good food, and seeing the Heidelberg Castle, which was really cool. Along with that we saw some smaller sites, like the old university, and the student prisons. We left for the United States on Thursday, but our first plane, to Munich, was delayed because they could not find enough crew members. Our plane from Munich to Boston was also delayed, this time because they had to find a whole new plane for us. Apparently our first plane had tried to download a new software, but it glitched while downloading, so they had to get a new plane. We got back to the United States at around 9, a good two and half hours later then we were supposed to, but that didn't really matter, because the trip was a ton of fun, and the actual plane rides were not that bad.