Grüße aus Deutschland
Thursday, September 4th, 2008So 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…
mrnational
