Day 4

Saturday was a day of sleeping in, and I went to the grocery store again. I have to go to the grocery store at least every other day because our refrigerator and pantry are quite small and they are for 4 people. I went to the hardware shop and bought the stuff to make a beer bong. On friday, while we were downtown we bought 2 hookah's so we went back downtown to buy more shisha. The reason I made a beer bong was for Dennis' and Martin's birthday party was saturday night. The party was a lot of fun, we bought 180 beers and a few random bottles of booze. There were about 25 people inside, and on the porch. It was basically just talking, making the germans do their first beer bong, and having a good time. Music was playing, drinks were flowing, and everybody was getting along great, 0 drama, that's the way I like it.

Day 3

We had nothing planned for us on friday, so I spent the day cleaning, sleeping, and shopping again. The night was a crazy one. Everybody went bar hopping downtown. Our first stop was this old brewery from the 13th century. It was crazy old and had really really good beer. We drank about 10 pitchers and decided to go to Angus. This bar was kind of a heavy metal bar. There was some otep playing when we walked in, and the beer wasn't very expensive. We played a little bit of pool(worst table I've ever seen) and some foosball. It was Dennis' birthday on sunday so we sang happy birthday and had a massive Prost! which is ther german version of cheers. Our next bar was a small club called Hueks. They had a dance floor, a dj, and a bar area. It was packed! A lot of the people looked older, around mid 30's so it was kind of awkward dancing. It was really hot, and people in Germany dance a lot different than in the US. I suppose I'll just have to get used to it. After leaving the "disko" jean, sam, frank and I took a taxi home.

Day 2

I slept well the first night, but woke up around 6am. I didn't have anything to do till 10 so I decided to unpack and organize all of my things. At 10 we all walked to the bank in order to set up our german bank accounts. After that we went and filled out a whole bunch of paper work, like 2 hours worth in order to get German health insurance, enroll into school, get my visa. We were then free to do w/e we wanted so we all went to the grocery store to buy food and beer. Food is really cheap here, which makes the exchange rate a little bit more bearable. That night I went back to Stress with some friends and my 3 new german friends were there as well. We spent the night talking about music and concerts. It was a great time.

Day 1

I woke up around 8 on tuesday Sept. 18th and finshed packing. I had to go get more passport pictures for the different ID's that I will be getting so I had my mom take a picture of me and I went to walmart to print them. I got on the plane at 3:30 and was soon on my way to a new country. Ben and I sat next to a nice woman who was born in Poland but moved to Seattle in her early 20's. We talked quite a bit and that made the 7.5 hour flight a little easier. I wasn't able to sleep at all. We arrived in London at about 9am London time. Everything was really expensive, and the cars drove on the wrong side of the road. When we arrived in Hamburg, Jens was there waiting for us and we all took a 30 minute taxi ride to Luebeck. Upon arriving to Luebeck we were allowed to put our stuff in our rooms and meet our roommates. I live with Kate Dechambre, a Biomedical student that graduated from MSOE and she is now getting her masters here at FHL. My other roommates are a german mechanical engineer named Simon, and another masters BE student from Mexico name Alain. They are quite nice and I think I will enjoy living with them. After I put my bags away we were taken to Die Mensa, which is the cafeteria, and like all school cafeterias, it's food was not good. I ate soem weird raspberry creme pudding, and a fried and breaded broccoli triangle. It tasted bad. After that we went to Aldi to buy food, which is quite cheap in germany. Then we were free to do whatever we wanted. Martin showed us the beer vending machine. 1Euro gets you half a liter of beer, in a big can. Amazing. We sat on Martin's balcony drinking beer and talking to everybody, it was a good time. I am really glad I know german because most the other guys here know little to none. Jean and I are the translators of the group. The german students speak very good english so that helps. That night we went to stress and drank more beer, we talked about random german things and I met 3 really nice german girls that are studying hearing aid technology. At about midnight I decided it was bed time because I had been up for 31 hours. Thus concludes day 1. If you want to see more pictures from my first few days here, then go to Pictures

First Post

Hello everybody, and welcome to my travel blog. I will be in Luebeck, Germany for the next 11 months and this is where I will put my better pictures and such of my travels and update everybody about what I'm doing and keep a record of my time spent here.