Today was just another day in language class. We got to request things over which we would look during our last week of language class (this next week). During our history and culture class, we went on a walking tour of Marburg, to hear about some of its history. We learned that Marburg has approximately 82,000 inhabitants. Approximately 25,000 of those are students. The University of Marburg (Philipps-Universität Marburg) is the largest employer, employing approximately 8,000 people. The second largest employer in Marburg is a pharmaceutical company (~5,000 people), which has been open since the early 1900s. Marburg also has the largest ratio of bars to people in all of Germany. As our guide put it: Many cities have universities…Marburg is a university. We visited Elisabethkirche again, then walked through Oberstadt and learned about some of the famous people that had lived there (the Brothers Grimm, the author of “Doctor Zhivago,” and others.
Today, my friend, Niki, had her surgery. Prior to our program starting, she was in Bavaria, Germany for a summer program. At the end of that program, she ruptured the meniscus in her left knee. It was not something that impaired walking in a big way, but she finally worked it out with her insurance to have the surgery this morning. Apparently it was a simple, thirty-minute procedure, as she was able to return home to her dorm this evening. It sounds as though she is going to have to be on crutches for a few weeks, so it is good that she was able to wait until after our trip to Weimar in order to get the surgery performed.
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