{"id":1006,"date":"2016-01-29T17:35:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T22:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2016-05-29T17:36:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T21:36:49","slug":"an-american-in-bremen-by-brandon-blackburn-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/2016\/01\/29\/an-american-in-bremen-by-brandon-blackburn-17\/","title":{"rendered":"An American in Bremen by Brandon Blackburn &#8217;17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1007\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/files\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-12-at-11.01.02-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-05-12 at 11.01.02 AM\" width=\"127\" height=\"153\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon Blackburn &#8217;17<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Majors: English and German Studies<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Minor: Art<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Teaching intern at the \u00d6kumenisches Gymnasium in Bremen, Germany<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>January 2016<\/strong><br \/>\nWelcome to Germany<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Vierundneunzig, f\u00fcnfzig Euro bitte.<\/p>\n<p>The woman behind the help desk at DB Bahn Frankfurt smiled expectantly and handed me the printout of my new ticket. I began to run calculations in my head. Let\u2019s see\u2026 that\u2019s four.. and nine\u2026 no, she must have said ein\u2026 but that doesn\u2019t make sense because the tens are zehn\u2026 is there another number that sounds like neun? Let\u2019s see: eins, zwei, drei\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Wie bitte? I asked.<\/p>\n<p>She repeated herself, a bit more slowly this time:\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Continue reading Brandon&#8217;s blog\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/anamericaninbremen.wordpress.com\/2016\/01\/12\/welcome-to-germany\/\">An American in Bremen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Blackburn &#8217;17 Majors: English and German Studies Minor: Art Teaching intern at the \u00d6kumenisches Gymnasium in Bremen, Germany January 2016 Welcome to Germany \u2014Vierundneunzig, f\u00fcnfzig Euro bitte. The woman behind the help desk at DB Bahn Frankfurt smiled expectantly and handed me the printout of my new ticket. I began to run calculations in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/2016\/01\/29\/an-american-in-bremen-by-brandon-blackburn-17\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An American in Bremen by Brandon Blackburn &#8217;17&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1738,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1106,269146,117,269355,80217,270881,270994],"tags":[25671],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1738"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}