Flight to Germany

Okay, so here's the long version. Yesterday morning I met my parent's at the airport. We said our goodbyes...everything was good. Then they sent me through the security. Now, I was pretty sure I had gotten all the sliverware, staples, everything sharp out of my bag until they pulled me aside to check my backpack. I told the man there that I could possibly have forgotten something on mistake...I'm pretty sure he understood. Well he wasn't finding anything for a bit and that's when he flat out said "there's a knife in here somewhere". Apparantly I had forgotten to take out my silverware butter knife from the computer compartment. Luckily, since my parents were still standing there watching I asked him if it were possible for him to give it to them and he did. Yay, for not loosing a good piece of my silverware set.

Anywhoo...Got on the (smaller) plane, slept a lot of the way and arrived in Philidelphia at about 3:05 Central time. A two hour flight. I sat around in the airport till my flight and boarded that. Pretty much from then on I knew there was no turning back. For the long flight, I sat next to a big stinky man. I know it's really rude of me to say...but when he's taking up half of my seat and I have to turn to the other side to breathe it makes for a very uncomfortable flight. Not only that, but i've decided I will not be flying on another US Airways flight again. I couldn't see the TV screen (which isn't too terrible) but it was Night at the Museum Battle at the Smithsonian and I really wanted to see it. So, I pretty much had no entertainment...and the staff wasn't very polite. Northwest was so much better.

Arriving in Germany I had no problems. Other than me stareing at the train ticket thing forever I pretty much found my way to the JYM office right away. Of course I asked a couple people just to make sure I was right, but I made it just fine. The only problem was that I had so much stuff...that it really wore me down. What they do for the program is give you directions with the u-bahn (underground train) to get to the office, where you still have to walk 3 blocks about with all of your luggage. At the check in they explained to me where my tickets would cover me on the train, gave me my keys and sent me back in the same direction. So I had to haul my luggage back to the train, get back on and find my apartment.

Now i'm in my apartment and after some searching at the department store I found an ethernet cable that works along with a power cord. Before to update, I had to go back to the JYM office to use their wireless and was still afraid my computer would die on me.

Well, at the moment, i'm feeling kind of lonely. I arrived a day earlier than the other students hoping I would get some time to relax. All I've done is worry about one thing after another. I know it's going to take a little bit of time to adjust, but I really don't like this inbetween stage. Luckily I just got to talk to Steve (the Greek) and I'm feeling a little better. Still have to work out some kinks in the video chat.

Well, i'm going to continue to unpack for a while. Tomorrow the other students are arriving so i'll let you know all about my day ...which is almost over when yours just starts.

Until then,

ke