well...

i was going to post some pictures of Meersburg, the oldest castle in germany. but i lost the pictures. ah well. other people got some good shots. and there are some other pictures possibly to come but internet is too slow and frankly i am having to much fun to post them. ha!

well life here is incredible. i am doing great but i am completely exhausted. i have nine roommates so no one sleeps. well, i don't sleep. i suppose i should say the noise never stops. but i can sleep in a rest home. i have already nickel and dimed myself out of tons of money on coffee and chocolate. both of which are unparalleled. and the people here are so amazing.

lectures are for hours at a time but no one is complaining! the lectures are incredible and i can't get enough of them. well. i have literally never been this tired so goodbye
-william

names and whatnot

well it has become an obsession of mine to learn all the names at this school. not faster than anyone, just as fast as possible. i get so excited when i see someone i don't know. my title as william the welcomer has been replaced with things like....wow. i am burning through the names like wildfire! i love it here so much. we all feel like we have known eachother for weeks and are always startled to realize we met yesterday.

photos of BODENSEEHOF

here are a few pictures of the school.

http://picasaweb.google.com/bittermanwill/HostelArea?authkey=Gv1sRgCOeovJD_hPWifw#

photos

link to more pictures....just fyi...i am only posting a few...internet here is slow. these are a few more from around the hostel

http://picasaweb.google.com/bittermanwill/HostelArea?authkey=Gv1sRgCOeovJD_hPWifw#

BAAHHHHHH!

germany is so AMAZING! i can't begin to describe it. the country itself is clean and rich and whatnot. but the school is....beyond words. so far only about half of the people are here and no one has been a stranger. we are all a big family already. i am in a room with 9 other room mates/......NINE! but that means we are going to be the most awesome room. their is a huge Canadian-American battle as for who is better and so far the american's have been less than victorious. still, as always, we shall overcome. so far i have classmates from korea, turkey, latvia, germany, asutralia india and more to come. we all keep saying how amazing it is to be here...so awesome!

i have become known as William the welcomer because i already knew people so well from facebook and i always run to meet the new students. it is way too exciting to be wasting my time by being bashful. the school is awesome too. the staff are really nice and we can see the lake and the swiss alps from our balcony.

staying at the hostel was amazing because 8 of us were bodenseehoffers and we all ate out together. SO FUN. well i am really afraid i am missing something cool so i am going to leave.

pictures

here are a few pictures of the area surrounding my hostel. more to come later!

http://picasaweb.google.com/bittermanwill/HostelArea?authkey=Gv1sRgCOeovJD_hPWifw#

here at last!

well, i am sitting in the hostel as i write this, using paid-for internet. apparently, cafe's in America are the only ones who let you use wireless free of charge. this is most unfortunate.

anyway...i will start at the beginning of the journey. i packed a lot of stuff. a lot. so getting through the airport was jolly good fun. after i made it through the checkpoint, i found my way to the gate and checked in. i soon boarded the plane, only to find that though it was incredibly long, the space between the seats was less than two inches. i somehow got myself crammed into a seat and sat. as we were about to take off, the captain told us there was a small vent that needed to be fixed and they couldn't find any allen wrenches that fit. after an allen wrench was found, we started to takeoff. as soon as we had gotten up speed, we stopped. they said they had some sort of warning and we had to go back and have it checked. when it was finally checked, we took off. at 645. the flight was supposed to take off at 420. grr.

about an hour into the flight the tv screens started working. i watched probably five movies and barely remember any of them. i slept for about thirty minutes but that was about it. i was totally cramped. eight hours later, i got off the plane only to find that i had missed my connecting flight by a very long amount of time. they set me up with another connecting flight scheduled for one oclock. i had a couple of hours so i put my carry on luggage under my feet and slept with my head on my lap. it made things, if possible, worse. when i woke up, i was a zombie.

on the flight was another bodenseehof studsent. wee began chatting and found that we were both staying at different places. there was someone else waiting on the flight with us who was reading an American book so we assumed he must be a student too. he wasn't. but, he lived right near the school and knew all about it. he told us he could take us to wherever we were going to stay that night. admittedly,scenes of the movie taken flashed through my mind as i thought of accepting a ride from a stranger, but when we got to friedrichshafen, he called the houses we were going to stay in and got directions. i assumed this meant he was actually going to take us there and not kidnap us. his wife was there to pick him up and we found out that they were really good friends with the staff at Bode and went to church with the students. they were really awesome and refused to let me help pay for gas.

then i got to the hostel and forced myself to stay alert through a shower and supper. then i slept for 12 hours. although my sleep was interrupted frequently by roommates coming and going, children screaming and so on. then i had a short breakfast and bought some internet time and blogged this. i am tired again and would like to sleep. more bode students are coming today to the hostel and we are all planning on eating dinner together tonight. then the bus from Bode will pick us up tomorrow morning. until next time!