To Clarify

There have been some complaints and so I will clarify and classify "what I've been doing!"

On a cold Sunday in March....
After getting to the airport two hours earlier than I had first anticipated, I waited in the airport terminal from around 1am until 7am. I was pretty sick and about every 10 minutes a woman would exclaim something like "any bags left unattended will be destroyed. So every time I decided that I needed to go to the bathroom I had to take all of my clunky bags with me. At 7:30ish I decided to go back downstairs and check in my suitcase and head through security. I didn't sleep and at this point I was really very grumpy and of course I forgot that my phone was in my pocket as I stepped through security so I got to start the day with a pat down...woo. After security, I thought I would be able to head to the gate and sit and rest for a while but of course that didn't happen either and all the information board said was Flight blah blah blah...please wait. Apparently you can't go to the gate until 20 minutes before your flight is scheduled to leave. So again I was stuck, paranoid that I would find out what the gate was too late and miss my plane. Oh well. After the worst airport and airplane experience I've ever had I finally made it to Frankfurt am Main and met up with Ernst and Ingrid.

I arrived on Monday the 30th and they drove me to their home in beautiful Bensheim. I was exhausted so they let me shower and take a nap. After I was rested and feeling better, they took me out to dinner at a restaurant in the Odenwald. At this point I was really really congested(the change in altitude in the airplane hurt like a mf) and couldn't taste anything and didn't have much of an appetite but I did my best to eat the wonderful meal. I went back and slept and felt much better in the morning. The next day Ingrid took me on a tour of Worms and Losch and explained the historical significance of many of the buildings, it was very nice. We had a wonderful lunch in Worms at this amazing cafe, I had some kind of Himmelbeer (raspberry) cake and the best coffee that I have ever had. We were invited to dinner at their next door neighbors house the Waller familie. Again I couldn't really taste anything but I could taste that the beer was very very bitter. It was from the local brewery and I didn't really like it.

On Mittwoch, Ingrid, Ernst, Inge(their neighbor) and I drove to Tuebingen and Inge showed us around the city for a bit. Apparently she had been to the city for a year of her medical school. We had sandwiches at a good little bistro place and then decided to find Waldhauser Ost or WHO. It was very confusing but we eventually found the dormitories, I checked in, signed a lot of papers that I had no idea what I was agreeing to and then Ingrid and Ernst and Inge left. Around 7 the group met and we walked over to the Greek Restaurant Faros. It was pretty good. I finally found a beer type drink that I actually like: it's called Radler and it's a mix of beer and sparkling lemonade. It's really tasty and refreshing.

On Thursday the group met again and we walked all the way downtown to the international university building(Germans love to walk everywhere) We had a small fruestuck and then we went on another tour of Tuebingen and again walked for a very long time. Tuebingen is a really hilly town and so it was pretty difficult for me because I am out of shape and was still really tired from being in a new place. For dinner we went to this really nice Italian place that had amazing spaghetti.

I am actually meeting up with people today and we are going to try and find that same Italian place for all-you-can-eat spaghetti special. So!(German people say that a lot, kind of instead of um or hm but it sounds like zo!)So! I will get back to the retelling of this epic adventure after a hearty dinner of Spaghetti Bolognese Yum!!