Weekend Retreat
After a week of training in Hamburg to be a teacher for the big-B school, I get home at 9pm Friday night completely exhausted. All I want to do is sleep for the entire weekend.
But I have forgotten about the stift's fall weekend retreat to Hildesheim... So we get up early Saturday morning. There is a neo-nazi rally and a protest against the rally in Göttingen, so the main streets are closed and there is only one entry to the train station open. We make our way through groups of stationed of police guards in order to get to the Bahnhof. (There are about 2,000 people and about 6,000 polizei in Göttingen for the rally/protest.) We are let into the Bahnhof and get on our train. (At every station on the way we see more groups of polizei waiting for a train to Göttingen.)
We get off the train and run to catch the next train. Get off that train wait for a bus. Ride the bus for 15 minutes and get off in the pouring rain. Walk for half an hour (unsure of exactly where we are going) through a dinky cobblestoned village, through the woods and fields and arrive at THIS: