Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:13 AM
Hallo!
Well, I am finally here in Germany.
I am in Darmstadt, Germany. I think it's a little southeast of Franfurt. But
I don't know for sure.
After a long, fairly uneventful flight, we arrived safely and I am at my host family's very sweet home in Darmstadt. It is hard to type on this keyboard because there are all of these öäü all over the place, and the y is at the bottom. Grrr...
After we arrived in Frankfurt, a couple from the school met us to take us to the Waldorf school in Darmstadt.
The airport was giant! And we practically hiked a mile to get to the parking lot. When we
got there it was fun to see all the little Smartcars and other tiny automobiles. We drove in the
stereotypical spy van on the autobahn at 150 kilometers! It seemed really fast. Driving in, it
was hard to see many differences from America, but they soon became more prevalent. I met
Katrine, my host sister at the School. They finish at noon, so they were finished with classes
when we met them at time. After we got a brief, and very confusing tour of the beautiful school,
we went home SEPARATE from one another to our families' homes.
Between my very shy, jetlaggy German, and Katrine's uncertain, but very good English we managed to talk to one another. She lives very near the school in a really sweet, very Waldorfian home with her brother and mom. Her dad is working in Africa right now. They have a garden where they grow some food as well as beatiful flowers. There are fresh-cut flowers in every room. Katrine and her mother and I made lunch, and we ate outside. Everyone who passes by shouts 'Bon Appetit!' as if they were there.
Katrine is practicing piano (klavier) now, and her little brother brought me some really strong
coffee (they have a cappucino machine) to keep me awake. Thank goodness. I realized that I hadn't
slept in more than 24 hours! Except a tiny bit on the plane. But I was having way to much fun watching
movies.
I gave Katrine some American coins and a cowboy hat and and a bandana, and she was
so tickled. She loved the money, and added it to her collection of American currency which
consisted of a dollar bill. Now they have gone strawberry-picking, I know, how sweet, but
I have a feeling that my coffee is going to wear off soon. Frau Coltman said not to sleep
until nighttime to get in the right cycle.
They have a really sweet cat who is really soft and has become my Wendy analog. She is
really cute and is sleeping on my bed. Tomorrow I will go to school at 8:00 in the morning and
go to chemistry. After lunch we are meeting Frau Coltman, and I think we will do something together.
I hope...
Well, I am having a really fun time so far. It's scary and I don't know what they are saying half
the time but I'm getting somewhere! I hope that I can check my email often, but I don't know if
it's expensive for them. They insist it's not but I want to make sure.
Aufwiederzehn meine lieblings!
Love you all!
Lily
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