First Days

Hello All,

So, after a long and exhausting trip over the span of 2 days which were as long as 3, I successfully made it to Titz, Germany.  This is where I'll be staying for the next 4 weeks during language and culture study.  School just barely ended for the year here.

 First flight from Ontario to Denver: can you see the Colorado river?

Second flight from Denver to Washington Dulles: I liked the views of the clouds.

Third flight across the Atlantic the next day.  8 hour flight, although we left at 3:30 PM and arrived at 5:10 AM.  After that we had to go through a series of trains, most of which traveled a little over 250 Km/hour.  I have great appreciation for Germany's mass transit system now, though I was sleep deprived the whole day.

After I got there they took me to see the Tagebau, open-cast mining.  %15 of Germany's power comes from the coal mined there.  It was a nice distraction from my exhaustion, so that I might stay awake until I could go to sleep on a normal schedule.

Titz is a small town, and the mining operation surrounds a lot of it.

The view of the churchyard cemetery from my bedroom window.  The church is right next to the house and bells ring every hour.  Thankfully not at night, however.  I still seem to be jet-lagged although I slept plenty last night.

Night Before Departure

Thank you all who have helped me get this far!  Now all of the preparations are over, and it's time to adventure into the unknown. Packed and ready to go.

I depart for the airport in 4 hours.  Time to get some sleep.