Hallo Bad Mergentheim!

Travis, my fellow finance major and friend from Oregon City, and I arrived here in Bad Mergentheim at about 6pm Monday evening. Bad Mergentheim will be our home for the next three months as we attend DHBW Mosbach, a business school partnered with Oregon State. At the end of our studies here, and provided we pass all our classes, we will receive our International Business option/discipline from the College of Business.

Bad Mergentheim received its town privileges in 1340 and is well known today as a spa resort and a destination for those seeking treatment for physical ailments. Its main landmark, and where our classes will be held, is the Deutschordenschloss. This castle was once home to the Teutonic Knights and consists of a series of buildings built over a span of eight hundred years. The town has a population of about 23,000 and was once home to Beethoven.

Travis, Will (another Oregon Stater) and I live in the upstairs of a small pub run by an older woman named Frau Hahn. She is very nice and made us dinner the night we arrived. We each have our own room, and each room has its own sink and balcony. Needless to say, I am a little (actually, substantially) too tall for the bed. This may come as shock to some of you, however, it is not an issue for the small bed is still warm and soft, which is all I could ask for.