Hey, I finally found a use for this thing!
...And it's about time!
At any rate, while I'm here in Germany, I figured I'd use this journal as a log of my everyday struggles here in the land of the deutsch.
I actually meant to begin this last night while I was on the plane here, but I couldn't get an internet connection at 37,000+ feet (go figure) so I'm working on it now, stealing internets from my buddy Sarah's house as I do so. Oh, and, apparently my cell won't send or receive texts while I'm here, because I can't get a signal ANYWHERE. So those of you that were thinking of texting me? Don't bother.
At the moment it's only 6:30 back home, but we are six hours ahead here, so I'm writing at 12:30 am. Woo-hoo!
Well, first off, I had an easy time at the airport. I had a lovely lunch of three glazed donuts from crispy cremes. It was delicious. Amazingly, I got a little bit of sleep on the plane to Germany too. The seat next to me (a row of 2) was empty, so I had it all to myself and went about making myself at home quite well. Overall, though, I'd say I got tops maybe 4 hours of sleep.
Sarah and her mom picked me up at the airport and from there we went to get something to eat (which I was very thankful for because I was starving.) We got Pizza at a little italian restaurant and I was surprised when Sarah told me I wasn't allowed to eat my pizza with my hands. I had to use a fork and knife...Which I've never used before. Suffice to say I felt completely retarded.
After that we went to get tickets to Sarah's favorite musical, Elisabeth, because tonight was Uwe Kroger, her favorite broadway singer, to play the part of Der Tod ("Death"). We shopped around at the little stores while we were there and got our tickets for the S-Bahn, an above-ground train that runs throughout the city. Something to remember is that tickets are not checked before you get on, it runs on sort of an honor system, HOWEVER, there are random plants of officials who will wait until the doors close and then stand up and call out "Karte, bitte" (tickets, please) and you will be expected to show your ticket or pay a very heavy fee for trying to cheat the system.
From there we went to a birthday party for Sarah's uncle, already dressed up to go to the musical. (We would be driven to the train station by Sarah's cousin later.) They all had a good laugh over how Americans are so fat and yet I was so terribly thin. Unfortunately, too, I was beginning to feel the effects of my lack of sleep and began to kind of sway in my seat. This didn't go unnoticed, of course, and my hosts were interested in knowing when it was i had come to Germany; they were quite surprised when I told them I had flown 8 hours through the night to arrive in their country that very morning and hadn't slept really at all during that time.
Fast forwarding, though, Sarah and I boarded the train and Sarah told me to take a nap because it would take an hour to get to our destination and she would wake me when we reached that point. I was asleep in no time. ((On the trip home, Sarah confided to me that the infamous toll takers that I mentioned above had shown up while I was asleep and had apparently been asking me fervently for my ticket until Sarah explained that she held my ticket.))
Elisabeth was amazing and I'm totally in love with both the show and Uwe now, though it's a terrible shame that he's not only twice my age but gay as well. D: Oh well. After the show, though, Sarah pulled me outside the building and down a side-road that some other fans seemed to be taking. Apparently we were going to wait outside of the stage door for Uwe Kroger to come out and get a picture with him and an autograph. I was nervous beyond belief, all these other girls were there, all waiting for Uwe. When he finally came out, it was very nice meeting him, Sarah explained that I was from America and wanted a picture because I was temporarily brain-dead. ((Can you do this in America?!?!)) Uwe was also so kind as to sign my program. <3 I'll probably post the pictures on my FB tomorrow.
Well, I better go for the night. I'm really worn out and tomorrow we go to more exciting places!! G'night!
At any rate, while I'm here in Germany, I figured I'd use this journal as a log of my everyday struggles here in the land of the deutsch.
I actually meant to begin this last night while I was on the plane here, but I couldn't get an internet connection at 37,000+ feet (go figure) so I'm working on it now, stealing internets from my buddy Sarah's house as I do so. Oh, and, apparently my cell won't send or receive texts while I'm here, because I can't get a signal ANYWHERE. So those of you that were thinking of texting me? Don't bother.
At the moment it's only 6:30 back home, but we are six hours ahead here, so I'm writing at 12:30 am. Woo-hoo!
Well, first off, I had an easy time at the airport. I had a lovely lunch of three glazed donuts from crispy cremes. It was delicious. Amazingly, I got a little bit of sleep on the plane to Germany too. The seat next to me (a row of 2) was empty, so I had it all to myself and went about making myself at home quite well. Overall, though, I'd say I got tops maybe 4 hours of sleep.
Sarah and her mom picked me up at the airport and from there we went to get something to eat (which I was very thankful for because I was starving.) We got Pizza at a little italian restaurant and I was surprised when Sarah told me I wasn't allowed to eat my pizza with my hands. I had to use a fork and knife...Which I've never used before. Suffice to say I felt completely retarded.
After that we went to get tickets to Sarah's favorite musical, Elisabeth, because tonight was Uwe Kroger, her favorite broadway singer, to play the part of Der Tod ("Death"). We shopped around at the little stores while we were there and got our tickets for the S-Bahn, an above-ground train that runs throughout the city. Something to remember is that tickets are not checked before you get on, it runs on sort of an honor system, HOWEVER, there are random plants of officials who will wait until the doors close and then stand up and call out "Karte, bitte" (tickets, please) and you will be expected to show your ticket or pay a very heavy fee for trying to cheat the system.
From there we went to a birthday party for Sarah's uncle, already dressed up to go to the musical. (We would be driven to the train station by Sarah's cousin later.) They all had a good laugh over how Americans are so fat and yet I was so terribly thin. Unfortunately, too, I was beginning to feel the effects of my lack of sleep and began to kind of sway in my seat. This didn't go unnoticed, of course, and my hosts were interested in knowing when it was i had come to Germany; they were quite surprised when I told them I had flown 8 hours through the night to arrive in their country that very morning and hadn't slept really at all during that time.
Fast forwarding, though, Sarah and I boarded the train and Sarah told me to take a nap because it would take an hour to get to our destination and she would wake me when we reached that point. I was asleep in no time. ((On the trip home, Sarah confided to me that the infamous toll takers that I mentioned above had shown up while I was asleep and had apparently been asking me fervently for my ticket until Sarah explained that she held my ticket.))
Elisabeth was amazing and I'm totally in love with both the show and Uwe now, though it's a terrible shame that he's not only twice my age but gay as well. D: Oh well. After the show, though, Sarah pulled me outside the building and down a side-road that some other fans seemed to be taking. Apparently we were going to wait outside of the stage door for Uwe Kroger to come out and get a picture with him and an autograph. I was nervous beyond belief, all these other girls were there, all waiting for Uwe. When he finally came out, it was very nice meeting him, Sarah explained that I was from America and wanted a picture because I was temporarily brain-dead. ((Can you do this in America?!?!)) Uwe was also so kind as to sign my program. <3 I'll probably post the pictures on my FB tomorrow.
Well, I better go for the night. I'm really worn out and tomorrow we go to more exciting places!! G'night!