It's really hot here and I'm so done with guided tours

The weathers been hanging at about 90 degrees, and since we were all told it would be about 50 while we were here, we're all running out of things to wear. Today's group of Americans were with a seventh grade class for English first period because we can't really participate in PE with them since none of us have a change of clothes and such. Also their teacher thought it would be fun for us to help out and speak some English. They were adorable. We taught them about how to give directions. Things like "turn left into this street" or "go straight on" or "this building is on your right" etc. some of the phrases were odd because it's a British English class, not an Americanized English one. Later in the day a few of us gave a presentation on Chicago and talked to some kids our age about America and such in a different English class. Then we went and got cod sandwiches for lunch in town. There's a lot of smokers here, not that I don't LOVE secondhand smoke... Gross. It's less than pleasant being from America where smoking in public isn't really allowed. After lunch, all the Americans had to go on a tour of Trier with a guide. Lots of standing around and listening to this old man talk to us VEEEERRRYYYYY slowly in German about ancient Roman conquest and the different buildings they built. It was a bit boring to say the least. It was made even more irksome by the fact everyone was dripping with sweat and on the verge of passing out from heat exhaustion. But thank goodness I now thoroughly know all about the ancient Roman two hour bathing process which involved a lot of sweating, fermented mouse pee, olive oil, and skin scraping (our guide spent a good 20 mins explaining it to us...). I was genuinely interested in the different techniques and optical illusions the Romans used to make their buildings look as grand as possible. For example, there are arc shaped windows on both sides of the Basilica and to make the room appear longer, the windows closest to the entrance are taller than the ones near the other side so it looks like they are getting smaller in the distance. Quite clever, those Romans.

^Owen, Miller, and Om posing with a poster of Karl Marx, who was born in Trier.