First Couple of Days

I made it alive...with all of my luggage! Sorry I am just now posting again but we won't be given the internet code for the dorm until tomorrow, so I am sitting in Starbucks. It is harder than you think being in a different country and not having the internet for 3 days to keep in touch with friends from home. What also sucks about not having internet in the dorm until tomorrow is that I will miss the Jets game tonight. Bu Some of my British friends that I have made said that some Irish bars here will show the Superbowl and they want to go watch it with us...so that's fun.

Okay so lets start with my flight from Charlotte to Munich, it was long. There were screaming chilren. I barely slept on the 8 hour flight. I watched an episode of Glee, and episode of Modern Family, Dispicable Me, and Sleepless in Seattle. All were great viewing choices. I had a three hour layover in Munich which wasn't too bad, just read in my book. The flight from Munich to Cologne was only about an hour so that wasn't bad at all. I was met at the airport by one of the teachers in the school where I will be student teaching. She was really nice and took me to the dorm where I met my overseas supervisor and the other student who is particpating in the same program as me. We also met another girl from France who is here for the entire school year working in our school. Evelin, my supervisor, took Kyle, Emilie, and me on a tour of Cologne. We walked all around the city for about three hours. The city is awesome but I was so tired and jetlagged that everything pretty much went into one ear and out the other. Later that night, Evelin and her husband took us all out to a classic Cologne beer hall. We ordered Kolsch, which is a beer that is only brewed in Cologne. I also ordered a Cologne specialty for my meal which was blood sausage. It is banned in the states I learned but it was really good still.

After dinner Emilie introduced us to some of her British friends and we ended up going out with them that night. We went to a German club that was a subway ride and quite a walk away, and ended up standing in line forever in the pouring rain before we could get in. It was strange inside because they were playing lots of music that we would hear at home like Lady Gaga, Nelly, and they even played Empire State of Mind, which was weird singing about New York in Germany.

Yesterday, when I woke up I walked around by myself a little to get more of a feel for the city and went to Butlers, which is a home goods store, and bought some things for my room to make it look less like a prison cell. Once I got back and finally unpacked, Kyle and I walked around some more and found a grocery store to buy some essential food for our dorms. I am planning on going to an Ikea on Tuesday with one of the British girls so I can make my room feel a little more home-like, then I will post some more updated pictures.

Once I get internet in my dorm I will update my blog more regularly and post more pictures on here. I have posted pictures on facebook but hopefully I will have internet tomorrow so I can talk with people a little more frequently.