Travel Troubles

This trip has taken a bit outta me so far. The layovers for the flights there weren't that bad, hardly had to wait. Me and Kevin met up in Amsterdam because one of his flights got cancelled, so that just made travel a bit easier.    We had to take a train to Kassel from Frankfurt, which was a bitch to find.. An arrow pointing up can mean go straight or go upstairs... so confusing. We BARELY made the train, having no contact with our ride to his cousin's house. And we got kicked out of our seats by some jerks who paid two extra Euros to reserve a seat. Far too much effort. We are also too retarded to figure out how to use those pay phones at the station because there are two or three area codes in Europe.

After waiting there for like two hours, we finally figured it out and got to Quentel, a cute, tiny village. The house is custom built to be extremely environmentally friendly. We got there after 10PM so for me, not sleeping for 28 hours, this meant BEDTIME! Got up wayy too early though and laid around for a while, until it was breakfast time. Kevin took me a short tour of the town and introduced me to the nicest family of the world. They let use their WiFi (you have to pay for it almost everywhere in Europa), took me to get my dollars exchanged and helped me get a cell phone to use for five months. It's a dinky one that cost 40 Euro, but came with some money already on it. They then proceeded to feed us - I ate food I hadn't eaten in over 12 years!! (Candies and curry ketchup). Then nap of death and hanging out with the hosts! They took us out to a pizzeria, but my stomach has been hating me since the flight so food is not an option. The people that came with us were super nice, but i was overly tired so I wasn't able to hold proper conversations. And we've been speaking quite a bit of German so I'll be somewhat set when the semester starts.

                View from our room>







                                                                                                              


Yesterday we headed to Amsterdam! Oh veyyy was that a fucked up trip. First off, I'm still jetlagged. This does not happen to me! Took a train nap, watched Hostel to get us pumped up... Somehow ended up in fucking Brussels, Belgium! The train platform and everything said "LAST STOP AMSTERDAM". Nope, fucking Brussels. On the brightside, a train was leaving for Amsterdam twenty minutes from then. But that took a long ass time. We arrived and wandered around the down area until our shuttle took us to the beach Hostel. While waiting, we met two guys, from Minnesota, one going to Wacken, both studying Deutsch! AND THEY ARE CURRENTLY SLEEPING RIGHT ABOVE US (bunk beds, woo)

                                                        Lobby/bar area of hostel
Yup, it's like 8AM, been awake for maybe two hours (I must have taken mini naps because those two hours passed like a racehorse) and waiting for free breakfast. I think we are hitting up the Anne Frank, sex, and Vodka museums today. I may also indulge in a certain type of muffin because I don't smoke and would look like a total retard coughing all the time.

A few pictures might be posted later this week, if I get around to getting online