I spent last weekend with my good old friend Saskia Triesscheijn (Zas-kia Tree-shine). We were neighbors in the graduate dorms at Virginia Tech last year, but after her graduation she went back to Germany and it was hard to keep in touch. She's a heptathlete (200m/800m run, 100m hurdles, shot put, javelin throw, high jump, and long jump) training for the Olympic games, and fortunately her sports club is only a few kilometers from Jülich! We visited Aachen for a day and took a look inside the Hohe Domkirche, a gorgeous old cathedral. They had several supposed holy relics on display there, including the diaper of Jesus (Holy crap! Sorry, had to say it...). The relics only come out every 7 years so we were lucky.
Sunday Saskia had a competition in high jump, shot put, and 1000m relay. Her goal was to improve her high jump so we were very excited when she scored a personal record of 1.80m! While she did the hard work, I was busy meeting cool people: Shiela (sprinter who was fluent in five languages and conversational in three more), and Eugene (decathlete who wasn't born; he was carved). It was a lingual adventure since you didn't know if the person you greeted to would answer in English, German, or Dutch.
In Aachen, I finally found a power adapter for my camera so I can get some pictures of Jülich!
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