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OBOES THROUGH THE YEARS

Exciting... I know. That's what I call a "teaser," it's meant to draw you into the blog right away. I'll get to the oboes in a moment...

I've had a very busy week with teaching and other things. In addition to teaching these week-long intensive courses, I also have a couple of private students, one through the school where I teach and the other a church member. I also do a language exchange with one of the German Teachers from the school where I teach. I go to her house and she teaches me German for an hour and I teach her or her nine-year-old son English for an hour. It's really nice for both of us.

Today (Wednesday) I didn't have to work until the evening and so I went with some of the missionaries to the Deutsches Museum.

The Deutsches Museum is Germany's version of the Smithsonian. With hundreds of exhibits on everything from advanced rocketry to agricultural techniques through the ages, it is a huge, overwhelming, and fascinating museum.

Mystery, wonder, and strange bald men abounded as we perused the various exhibits of the museum:

This is a rocket-propelled sled. Calvin would be jealous.

Here am I playing an early version of a Casio keyboard (ca. 1760)

Cross-section of a U-Boat:

Including the torpedo bay... both of them...

An original Wright Bro's plane from 1909.

And a triple-decker "Red Baron" Fok plane from WWI.

I think this plane was designed by Fisher-Price:

Resistance is futile.

This underwater breathing apparatus served in later years as an excellent shoulder massage apparatus.

A Medieval Chemist's shop complete with bongs.

The elders got a little confused when we arrived at the UNIVAC and started tracting it. I gently explained to them that this was actually an early computer.

It was a fun and full day at the museum. There were also oboes.



Guess what I'm going to go see tomorrow.......

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