Upon arriving in Deutschland late Sunday I have been thrown into the mix of German society. Living in a modern neighborhood for the middle class has been a new experience all together. For the first time in my life I have a multiple friends within a five minute walk and a school house 500 meters away.

The neighbor hood is beautiful with tons of sidewalks for pedestrians and small, curving roads that run this way, that, and the other. most(all) of the houses are made of red or white brick. I can not say that that they are some of the most beautiful houses I have ever seen, but their all right.

At night time every window in every house is shuttered. But these are no ordinary shutters!! They look like garage doors and they function in just the same way. Another odd quality of these houses is the color coordination. Normally the walls of every room is white with a single strip of bright red, blue, green, or yellow running around the middle of the wall. The strip will widen out around a picture to a square shape to give the frame of the picture a frame. In the kitchen everything is wood/metal and square from the door handles to the celling lights.

All in all it is hard to tell if you have been brought back in time or put into a movie of the future.