Here's a picture of and old building in Memmingen. Memmingen is a town situated in Bavaria, Germany.Well, its actually way down South in Germany. It's a town steeped in history and the origin of the town goes back to the Roman Empire. In fact many of it's old courtyards, castles and palaces are some of the best preserved in Southern Germany.
The town motto is , " A town with perspectives" but more recently it has been called ,"The Town of Human Rights," as Christoph Shappeler, a famous Renaissance preacher, during the Protestant Reformation and German Peasant's War, penned the "Twelve Articles" which is considered the first human rights document EVER. What a spectacle ! 300,000 peasants armed with little more than pitchforks or rakes pitted against the highly experienced and well oiled war machine of the aristocracy. They were crushed like a bug.Of course. Perhaps because none of them had thought of the guillotine?
This is where K will be spending six weeks as a Rotary short term exchange student and she leaves in ten days. Isn't that so terribly exciting and most awfully, frightening at the very same time? She will spend Christmas there with her host family. I hope she has a wonderful time and brings back many new perspectives, from the town with perspectives. When you send your children off on an adventure of this kind you just know they will never come back to you quite the same again. I think I'll send Jeff off with her, just in case.....( see Hello Jeff , 2 December 2009)
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