So I missed one connection because my flight out of Charlotte was late, but got into Hannover with no real problems. Charlotte, by the way, is a beautiful airport and I really didn´t mind spending 8 hours reading, listening to music, and dancing on the moving sidewalks. It was a pretty good day. While waiting for my flight I befriended a lovely German girl named Laura who works in the music industry. She gave me her e-mail and I hope to meet up with her again on this trip.
On the flight to Frankfurt, I got my first European kiss from a gorgeous Turkish/German girl who announced "I must kiss you now!" after I raved about her European beauty. Her name was Nazli and she is a fashion designer. I wish I had gotten her information, but it´s a small continent, who knows?
In the Frankfurt airport after an 11 hour flight and 11 hours of sitting around before that, I felt disgusting so I stepped into the bathroom to change and freshen up (the perks of having all your luggage carry-on). While in there, I heard a man yelling outside screaming "No! Please! Halp, halp halp!" So I decided that although I was terribly curious, the sensible thing to do is stay in hiding until whatever was going on passed. Luckily, another American girl walked into the bathroom and let me know it was pretty much a "Don´t tase me bro!" situation with a guy who didn´t want the police looking through his things. Kinda wish I had gone out now.
My beautiful Jenn was waiting at the airport and we drove to Hessisch Oldendorf where her family lives. We ate a delicious German lunch, then speghetti ice cream, and wandered through the village. Looked into a Vodaphone, but they only have the more expensive models here so I am going to look them up when we go into the city on Friday. 20$ that I save on a phone can go towards minutes and texts.
Then we hiked up some hills and found a beautiful little creek waterfall and practiced skipping rocks. We´re going back there tomorrow for an after-lunch picnic.
For dinner here, they only eat a couple slices of bread with margerine and cheese or meat. Very strange to me, since I´m used to dinner being the biggest meal.
I´m feeling delightfully European.
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Crap! I accidentially just erased my comment. I was going to say that you're making friends quickly! Which is funny because today in a book I am reading, the author comments that he is outgoing and has so many friends simply because he "talks to everyone on the sidewalk before they either pass me or talk to me first". Sounds like you've got your own system going though!
ReplyDeletePS. Sometime when you're flying around, while sitting in an airport waiting for a flight, listen to the album OK Computer by Radiohead. It's hard to explain, but it's pretty much universally agreed to be the best place in the world to listen to that album. Trust me, you'll understand if you do it.
HAVE A GOOD ONE!
Unfortunately, I don't have my laptop with me or a CD player (just my iPod) so I can't get ahold of that album. Thanks for the comments, girlfriend of mine, they make me smile. Good to know people are reading other than my mom.
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