Rest...a little

Posting pictures has not been as easy as I had hoped from an internet cafe. Maybe Rome will provide a place for this. So it is not that I don't want to or don't have time but that so far it has not been available.

Stuttgart was good. I loved having a hotel room. Maybe I will find more hotels along the way as they sure do provide more rest.

I again maneuvered my way through a completely foreign subway system and managed it just fine. Wow, that is so cool. I took a walk in the city, found an information center, learned about a show called, "Africa, Africa" and went. It was like a circus but had dancing and some great music and some displays of amazing athelic talent. However, some of the body contortion artists were not so cool in my book. I was a pretty high class affair and I must admit I wondered if this was good for the people of Africa. I can't imagine a touring circus called, "North America, North America", in which total generalizations were made about our people through dance and circus style acts. For 90 minutes before the show no one was allowed to find their seats. Instead, everyone had to stand around in the consession area. There were no paper cups and paper plates at this consession area either. It was all beer mugs and wine glasses. It looked so very high class to me when in reality maybe it is how the people in Stuttgart do a show. I have no idea and one night in the city is not enough to make a judgement. I was pretty uncomfortable just having to stand around and wait..alone. One thing that is so different for me.. people assume I speak German. It sure is different than in Korea when they just automaticallz assume I don't speak Korean and that I speak English. People just speak to me and depending on the situation and how it benefits me I say something in English or just nod. Sometimes I can nod because their body language also says what they are saying verbally. Last night I sat next to a man who has done a lot of traveling in Africa and he too came to the show alone. He spoke English which was nice. I love meeting random people. He asked what I had done in Poland so I told him about visiting Auschuwitw. I felt really priviledged to speak to someone of German heritage about Auschuwitz. We talked about it as a human tradgedy and he said it would be a good place for him to visit too.

Well, I slept in today, had an amazing breakfast which the hotel provided, took a nap, did some internet and now I am on my way to the airport to fly to Rome.

Write more later.