Back In the Saddle...

I arrived here at the school, but it was definitely a harder trip than it had to be. I almost missed my connect from Philly to München (ah! üäö!!!) and then when I got there, my luggage didn't. So I have been living without baggage for two days. Then I got on the S-Bahn to München Hauptbahnhof on an ICE train. Alone. I was impressed with myself, but rather lonely. Then I sat by some really nice old German men. When I got off to make it to my connect, however, I found out that my train was like, an hour late. So I asked someone (a German, who should have known the train system) which one to connect with and they told me the wrong one! Lame. So now I was in some weird little hodunk train station in Germany, already an hour and a half behind schedule and with no idea where to go. I asked another person then and they told me ANOTHER wrong train. Thanks dude. So I was on one late train, two wrong trains, and 2.5 hours late before I finally arrived in Lindau, the city where I was supposed to meet my new buddy Jennifer. Before I could get to the hotel, however I had to find a taxi in a deserted part of town with a freshly-dead cellphone. That was an adventure. Basically I just started walking and hopedHopedHOPED that I would run into someone who knew what they were talking about. Eventually I ran into a taxi man (slash car :-) ) but then the ride to the hotel costed more Euros than I actually had. I must have looked like I was about to die or something though because the driver said he would do it for whatever I had. Vielen dank Herr Taxidriver! So after a lovely taxi ride across town, I finally made it to Jennifer and our hotel. Gottseidank.

Today went much more smoothly though! I woke up nice and refreshed, ate a nice continental breakfast of German fare (bread, cheese, fruit), and showered! (After my 36-hour day, this was much-needed) Then we hopped on a taxi, a train, and a bus, and were picked up at the bushaltestelle (bus stop) by some Bodenseehof people! Yay!

I have officially been at school for 3 hours and am very comfortable, if only slightly tired. I am in a room with only 4 girls instead of 10 (woohoo! this will be VERY beneficial to Lorraine's sleep habits!) but have only met one of my roommates so far...her name is Elisabeth (Lizzy) and she is from Austria and she is lovely! We seem to get along really well so far...introverted, love to laugh, are dreading all the school work we are about to start...y'know...so so far everything is good!

I love you all and miss you too!!!!!!!

P.S. I'll post a picture or something as soon as I take one :-)