A Germany Story - Day 1

It's a shock that I look at my blog everyday, and haven't realized until now that I haven't posted since August. Since my last post about Stratford, many things have happened Since long before summer, I had been waiting for the big trip of Junior year to come in November, Germany!!! My blog over the next few days, will tell of my tales across the sea's and the wonderful memories I left with to come home to America.

The day that we left for Germany was most exciting. After sitting impatiently in school for two hours we loaded the luggage, boarded the buses and waved to the few parents that were there to say good-bye. We then began our three hour bus ride to the airport. After we had gotten inside the airport, checked everything in and gotten through security.....we had over five hours to wait in the airport. The other plane carrying the other half of the students had left two to three hours before us and were already on their way, while we sat waiting in the airport. By the time, we began boarding we were so tired of the airport that everything was funny and we were all slap-happy with excitement. Needless to say, the seven hours that followed on the plane helped destroy everything that had been slap-happy in the airport.

We finally landed in Germany early in the morning; exhausted, hungry and excited to be back on the ground. After we went through everything airport wise in Germany, we boarded buses that took us to a school in Ludwigshafen where our host students would meet us. When we arrived at the school we were welcomed, found our host student and got our pictures taken. After I found GermanSisterTuna, we went to her home in Maxdorf so I could unpack, get settled and eat.

The rest of the day (according to our itinerary) was left to us. GermanSisterTuna took me around Maxdorf to see some of the homes and meet some of her family who lived nearby. The few hours that we had when we got back, I spent sleeping (for the lack achieved on the plane).

Later that evening, I went to her choir rehearsal and youth bible group. I got to sing and play games with many of her friends (although I was the only American, I needed everything to be translated and explained).

My first day in Germany was exciting, relaxing and wonderful.
The first of many to come....