Thursday February 17, 2011
This evening my political science professor invited our entire class to his house for dinner. He is an extremely interesting man and has the most incredible life stories. After finding our way to his house (its frustrating getting lost in Luxembourg now as we are progressively feeling more like local).
Our professor lives in a very large house that is in a nice section of the city. The house at first seemed clutter then when you looked closer you realized that it was actually filled with decades of souvenirs and awards from around the world, he had also invited his friend who is the current British ambassador to Luxembourg to dinner who was very interesting and spoke to us for a long time.
Dinner was amazing some kind of pork stewed in some kind of mushroom sauce complete with two types of pies and ice cream cake for dessert. I absolutely loved the evening and I think that my professor and his life are absolutely incredible. He told us the story of when Luxembourg was annexed by Nazi Germany how he avoided the mandatory draft by intentionally breaking his own leg and then spending the majority of the war in hiding. To imagine that he was my age during all of this was incredible and again another amazing testament to the will of Europeans who endured WWII that was largely not felt (in the same extent) in the US and is still evident today by the nicest and one of the smartest men who you will ever meet who walks to this day with a pretty serious limp.
Carnaval break starts tomorrow... and I have to finish packing!!!!!
This evening my political science professor invited our entire class to his house for dinner. He is an extremely interesting man and has the most incredible life stories. After finding our way to his house (its frustrating getting lost in Luxembourg now as we are progressively feeling more like local).
Our professor lives in a very large house that is in a nice section of the city. The house at first seemed clutter then when you looked closer you realized that it was actually filled with decades of souvenirs and awards from around the world, he had also invited his friend who is the current British ambassador to Luxembourg to dinner who was very interesting and spoke to us for a long time.
Dinner was amazing some kind of pork stewed in some kind of mushroom sauce complete with two types of pies and ice cream cake for dessert. I absolutely loved the evening and I think that my professor and his life are absolutely incredible. He told us the story of when Luxembourg was annexed by Nazi Germany how he avoided the mandatory draft by intentionally breaking his own leg and then spending the majority of the war in hiding. To imagine that he was my age during all of this was incredible and again another amazing testament to the will of Europeans who endured WWII that was largely not felt (in the same extent) in the US and is still evident today by the nicest and one of the smartest men who you will ever meet who walks to this day with a pretty serious limp.
Carnaval break starts tomorrow... and I have to finish packing!!!!!
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