We woke up in Leipzig this morning to wonderful sunny but not too hot weather. First thing we took a train to Wittenburg which is where Martin Luther lived his courageous life. We saw the church he was buried in, the monastery in which is taught, and the church/house/castle thing that he use to live in that has been turned into a museum. All three were very pretty. I must say though....all the churches begin to look alike when you see so many.
The best part of the day was lunch. As we were finishing up paying a group of men sat down next to us. And of course...they were all carrying cameras. Once again the JMC majors ran into a camera crew filming another documentary. (I love my life) So we started talking to them and found that they had been working on this film for 9 years and were almost done. The film was a documentary over Wittenburg and it's slowly decreasing population. They ended up interviewing us for the film, asking why we were there and what importance it meant to us. My input was that being a Christian University, Martin Luther is a huge part of our history. Without him we would be very different. We should know our history and it was very cool to be able to see where he lived and made history.
The men were eating our group up. They loved us! They also needed to film what we call "B Roll" which is a shot of something while the voice over of another person is playing. I was scratching behind my ear and for some reason left my hand there. (Kind of daintaly is how I explained it) and the guy stopped and said, "Wait! Put your hand back, please. That was great!"
I definably had them in the bag with my amazing charm....haha. We made sure to get their business card and were asking if they had a website to look them up on. The guy said no so I blurted, "Do you need one?" Meaning that were are trained in that so if you need and intern...wink wink. I definitely even asked one of them if they used interns and he said to look him up on FB. Greatness.
Then!!! He told me that he and one of the other guys made commercials for a living..... :D
I said, "OMG! can I shake your hand?" He laughed and seemed like he never gets that....and then SHOOK MY HAND! haha It was great fun.
After the day of fun, we took a train to Berlin....we haven't done much but check out a piece of the Berlin wall that was rudely covered in gratify and gum and then ate supper and had class. I'm too tired to go up and get the pictures that I took today. All of the train travel and moving every night is getting to me. Tomorrow is a tour of Berlin and then fly to London where we are spending the night to get up and come home on Saturday.
So, I'll add some pictures probably tomorrow night (if the wifi is good) and then when I get home I'll put all of my pictures on FB for you to see everything my blog missed.
Maybe my commercial making career is going to take off as soon as I add this guy on FB, but I'm too tired to think about it so I'm just guna go to sleep. Home and stillness awaits me in less than two days.
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