Nurnberg 27/3

Today we went to the zoo. It was cold but I haven't been to the zoo in a while so it was really nice. There wasn't that many people there either. While the Columbus zoo is much larger I felt that this zoo let you get much more up close. Oftentimes there was a single fence between you and the animals and if you really wanted to you could have reached out and touched them. People here must be much more respectful and smart when it comes to this sort of thing. Such as the ponds; most ponds in zoos back home are full of coins people have tossed in. Even though there wasn't much of a wall there was no coins in the ponds here! Even really small things like this make me like Europe even more.

Eating meals/sitting at the table with my relatives is so weird here. While I'm really not alone I feel like it. They talk in German and I just sit there. I'm not annoyed, it's just that I don't know how to look or seem engaged when theres really now ay I am. I'm always so worried about offending people.