Day 5-Sunday/Kandern, 10 June

I awoke to the German equivalent of change-ringing from the church close by, a small old building with a bell tower. The bells were ringing for about 10 minutes as I got ready for church, held at BFA. The high point of the service was definitely the steam train whistling loudly right in the middle of the sermon and proceeding to run through town, just out of sight but clearly audible[well within hearing]. Susan had left early that morning for Spain, so I rode with Mr. and Mrs. Willson to church, then connected with Shannon and Burt, the Ludingtons who made it to church.
After the service, Shannon went around talking to any remaining graduates, spreading word of one final party at someone else’s house. There were about fifteen of them, but we finally left and went home for Breakfast. The remainder of the day was uneventful, apart from Megan working on finals, and passing the time with Mr. Dickens, until Shannon and I walked to town for the grad party-thing. We ate cake and drank Eiskaffe, and nobody minded much that I didn’t belong to this particular group of graduates. When everyone arrived, the tally ran to about a dozen girls and four guys, and we started watching ‘A Knight’s Tale’, as the entertainment alternative to CNN World, albeit less accurate (I hope).
High Points: Geoffrey Chaucer played by Paul Bettany.
Low Points: total disregard for actual history, for instance the crowd singing ‘We will rock you’--actually most of the movie was a low point. Two thumbs way down.
Not surprisingly, it fails to understand the Medieval worldview, so the Location might be Medieval Europe, but the Setting is all Hollywood.
After that, we watched most of ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’, a brilliant movie, especially by comparison. “Ah, Venice.”
Now I want to see the whole thing again.