The Journey

The morning of my flight went awesome for me! My mom walked me all the way to security and helped me with my 2 bags. It was really nice to have her there until she literally couldn't go any further with me. Security was quick and painless except when they had to double check me because of my ankle brace. I got wanded and checked for explosive residues all because I sprained my ankle. The TSA lady was really nice and was just chit chatting with me because she new it was fine but she had to follow protocol.

My international flight into Frankfurt was good! I lucked out and had no one in the 2 seats next to me so I got to spread out! It's a good thing too because the 2 jerks in front of me reclined their chairs back for the entire flight and were making out the entire time! It made it really difficult to get in and out of my seat. I wanted to kill them. For the in flight entertainment they only had the large screens for the entire cabin not the small seat back ones where you can choose your own movie. The movies were uninteresting until I accidentally switched one into German. Watching Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler with the wrong voices was pretty great. There was also one flight attendant who was super nice and very helpful.

Getting through customs and immigration was an odd experience because this lady didn't say one word to me. She just checked my ticket, checked my passport, stared at me for a minute, stamped my passport and sent me on my merry little way. But I did get a nod to acknowledge I was done.

Flying from Frankfurt to Berlin was so quick. I felt like I took off an the next minute we landed. The first thing they did on this flight though was give us a full size Milka bar. Let me tell you... you don't know what you are missing.

Everything happened so quickly today security was no problem, my flights were early, I was pre-boarded, and the airports were really easy to figure out. I even beat my flatmate to the flat. The only time I thought something was going to go wrong was in the taxi. The guy drove so aggressively and I thought every second that we would be getting in an accident. But I guess they all drive like that here.

I have a lot of things to do here to help me get settled. This all still just doesn't feel real. Hopefully a shower and waking up in Berlin tomorrow will do the trick.

Greetings from Berlin!