Back to Mainz - August 6th

So today my weekend of fun with Sonja, Thomas, and Jason came to an end. Thomas had to work for a bit in the morning while Sonja, Jason and I had breakfast. After that I joined Thomas at the Fitness Studio or Gym for a quick workout. The gym was cool but very unlike American gyms that I have seen. All the machines were very high tech and the machines were appropriately titled “Techno Gym”. Most of the gym was comprised of these machines with very few free weights. When you are a regular at the gym, you have a personal key for all the machines, that tells you exactly what to do with the machine to meet your needs. This means the exact height of the seat and other adjustments, number of reps, and weight to use. Pretty cool I must say, but I do prefer the regular low tech free weights and benches.

After the gym we heading back to Mainz and I finally resolved the adapter problem with my computer. At Media Markt we returned the adapter that did not work and found the correct adapter for only 3 Euros. So what started out costing 13 Euros went down to 6 and then finally 3. Not too shabby. Later that afternoon we went downtown to return my original converter and I had my first fish sandwich of my trip at Nordsee followed by some Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. Sehr Lecker! Petra then cooked a great dinner of pan cooked chicken with pees and mushrooms. I am currently attempted to catch up on past days, so if the tenses I am using in previous entrees seem out of place, this is why. I have been very bad about writing in my blog since I have not had great access. My plan is to write everything in word now and then transfer it to my blog. Lets hope it works!