This is Brianna, Ike, Me, JC and Stephen eating German pizza and enjoying some German beverages.
Guten Tag Americans! The title of this post is called "Yesterday Americans, Germans today"!Today was our first day in Germany. We flew to Frankfurt from Chicago at 6:00 pm American time and arrived in Germany at 11:00 am. (It was an 8 hour flight- you can do the math to figure out what time that is in America!)
The airplane ride was ... interesting! The flight attendants came around with complementary drinks, then around 8:00 it was dinner time. We had the choice of pasta or chicken (both were kind of a mystery! :\ *I choose the pasta, it was not half bad!) A little while after dinner it was time for another complementary drink (I enjoyed some tomato juice!) Then we tried to sleep for a little bit, however that didn't work out too well so I watched the movie "Up in the Air" with George Clooney!! ;) After that we were shortly served breakfast which consisted of some Raspberry Yogurt and a pastry.
After 8 1/2 hours in the airplane (Oofta!) we finally landed! Pastor Trachte and JC went to get our van for the weekend and we waited at the airport. People watching was taken to a whole new level! Also, people there love dogs (not so much children)! We headed to Rottenburg (pronounced Rot-ten-berg) there we looked at the old buildings, and shops. We tried our first Bratworst (still not so fond of them!). After that we walked around the town more.
Next stop for the day, Nuendettelsau. This is the area we are staying for the weekend. Tomorrow is "May Day" here (which is Europe's Labor Day). From what we understand, it could somewhat resemble an Ausflug!! Haha. The place we are staying is nice, fast internet (hence why I am blogging while I have the chance), breakfast, lunch and dinner, friendly staff, and people who speak English! (which is always a relief for some of us... ok, all of us!)
For dinner we walked to a restaurant with German pizza. I was a little nervous about this to begin with because the German book I have been reading says that "German pizza is very different from American. It is thin, and could consist of toppings such as anchovies, corn, hot dogs, bratworst. However, it was much better than I had expected! We enjoyed a German bier, and then headed down the road for some German ice cream! Yummy!!
This jet-leg is going to catch up to me real fast! I already know it :\
However, by keeping busy during the days and going to bed when I should I have a feeling I will adjust to the German way of life very fast!
Auf Wiedersein! (Good Bye)
morgen mehr :) (more tomorrow)
