Extracurricular Activities

I thought you guys might like to see of the things I've been doing when I'm not at school teaching.  The first weekend after school started back, my roommate Poisy and I went to a snowboarding competition that one of her friends organized.  It wasn't huge and, of course, Hannover doesn't have any great skiing resorts, but they made an impromptu dual slalom course and some awesome jumps.

The next week the snow still dominated most of Hannover, and I saw this great sketch on the back windshield of a car on my way to school.  "Moin" is a Low German/Frisian greeting that is used as slang in a lot of northern Germany.

Last weekend I went to my first professional soccer game and saw Hannover '96 get soundly defeated by Hertha BSC (from Berlin).  George, Rosy and I still had a good time though even though it was pretty frigid, and the Hannover stadium the AWD Arena is pretty amazing.  The modern looking roof was added before the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

 

Last but not least, today I went to the Hannover Landesmuseum (state museum) which has a pretty cool ongoing exhibit on the history of portraits in the art world and pop culture.  The Landesmuseum is right across the street from the Neues Rathaus.  Even though it was about -3°C and the Maschteich was frozen, the sun made a rare appearance, and I couldn't resist a nice stroll.

 

 

 

Notice how most of the snow has melted away.  Don't be fooled though, it's basically been converted into huge patches of ice across much of the city, but the roads and sidewalks are mostly clear now.