Rosenmontag

So I have been in Freiburg for a week now and quite a bit has happened. Right now I'm taking a german language course in the mornings, and I feel like its really helpful. Who knows how much my german will improve with this three week course!

Today we had no class because of Rosenmontag (the german version of pre-lent festivities) and along with that it was the Freiburg Faschings the local festival to get ready for spring. The Freiburger Hexen are witches that "sweep" away winter and in the process they parade through the street, make a lot of noise, and douse people in confetti. Each of the small towns surrounding Freiburg also have their own witches who participate in the parade. They all wore scary wooden masks and would come up to people and scare them or other mischievous things...like give them new hair do's.  

I think that if people wore scary masks like these in a parade in the US all of the kids would be very afraid of them, but here, though a few are, most of the kids loved the attention from the witches.

So thats whats been going on this weekend in Freiburg along with a day trip to Basel and some hiking in the hills. 

More later!