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