I have been in Mainz nearly two weeks now. I feel settled in. I haven't done the exploring I want and need to do yet. Two shopping trips to the city center is about it. This lack is not due to opportunity, but rather to trying to navigate a new language, new university, new lodging, getting over jet lag and a cold, and working on the presentation I'm to give on Thursday evening. Excuses, excuses, excuses.
Today is incredibly sunny.... second such day since I've been here. Looks like it might last the entire day. It's pretty cold here (for me). On Sunday's the cathedral and church bells toll. Magnificant.
I went to the 'farmers' market by the cathedral yesterday and wandered into the building which has accreted over the past 1000 years. Solemn, celestial scale, dark with dim light from leaded stain glass windows and with soft points of light from remembrance candles.
Everyone has been most kind and friendly here and I've had an incredible amount of laughter with Stefan and his friend Torsten.
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