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I was molested by a bee…

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

One of the first things that I’ve noticed about Luneburg, is the huge population of bees.  I’ve seen more bees in the last 3 days then the last 3 years in the States.  And, for those that don’t know me, I’m allergic to bees.  Well, I was when I was little.  I was told that you can grow out of an allergy to bees, but I’d rather not find out.  Especially since I don’t think that my health insurance has kicked in yet.  Everytime I see one I think of the Halloween in ’87 when I was stung and woke up all swollen and couldn’t breath.   Not very fun. 

So I was sitting at a sidewalk cafe in Am Markt having a beer, when bees started moving in for it.  I initially started swatting at them, but when I almost spilled my beer, I decided I had to be cool.  Plus I didn’t want everyone staring at me while I flailed my arms around like a little girl trying to swat a bee.   So I started very slowly swat them away, when one landed on my arm.  I didn’t want it to sting me, so I just sat there hoping that it would fly away.  Instead, it started humping away at my arm while I sat there stunned.  Didn’t have its stinger out, just sat there humping my arm for a good minute before flying away.  Anyway, needless to say, that was one of the most horrific moments abroad and I just had to get it off my chest.  I feel better now.  Now I can’t wait for winter so all these little bastards die off…

Grüße aus Deutschland

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

So I’m finally in Germany. I arrived yesterday after 25 hours of airports, train stations, planes, trains, and buses. Everything was fine except for a two hour delay on my Philly to Frankfurt flight, which made me late for my other connecting flight, train, and buses. Plus I was unable to get a hold of Natalia, so she was wondering where I was for two hours. She was great though. Got me to my student accomodations, which were better than expected. I have a terrace, desk, closet, and shelves. It is better than a bed in a small, rectangular, jail cell of a room that I had imagined. And, out of 4 available rooms, two are unoccupied. Hopefully it stays that way. My flatmate Fredrich is pretty cool. He’s given me some pretty good tips for Luneburg. The only issue that I have is that they expected some chick named Mandy instead of me, so I get to deal with pink sheets for the next couple days. Lovely.  Could be worse.  I saw a post on Facebook from one of the other students in the program.  Apparently, his accomodations are on the grounds of a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of town.  Sucks to be him.

Some pictures of my room: 1, 2, 3, 4

I walked around Luneburg today to get a feel for the town. It’s very beautiful and has a medieval feel to it. I walked around the downtown, checked out the extremely small campus, and checked out some of the shops. In my excitement to get to the airport, I forgot my hat and my Mach 3 razor. I was unfortunately unable to find a replacement hat or a razor for less than 12€. I’ll tweeze out all my hair before I spend over $17 for a razor. After a couple hours of that I took in a couple beers in Am Markt while people watching. I’ve tried to do all the required things to deal with jetlag, but drinking beer is one thing I just couldn’t do. And that is the reason that I am about to fall asleep at 8pm…