Arrival in Germany

(Written around 8:00 am this morning)

Getting to Saarbrücken was a lot less frustrating than getting to Rome….except for check-in at Rome Ciampino, where I stood in line for an hour, only to find out that I had been in the wrong line. Once I got through security, my flight was boarding. I took Ryanair, which is basically like taking a flying bus that constantly wants to sell you stuff. But it got me very close to Saarbrücken for a lot cheaper than if I had flown in somewhere else. I took a bus from Frankfurt Hahn Airport to Trier, and then I took a train from there to Saarbrücken. The trains here are so quiet! They are all electric, but they are even quieter than lines such as the Long Island Railroad in New York or NJ-Transit train in New Jersey.

Herr Leonardy, the guy whose apartment (Actually top floor of his house) I'm renting, picked me up in a little blue convertible, the trunk of which wasn't large enough to hold my suitcase. So we rode through Saarbrücken with a huge suitcase in the back of his little blue convertible - what a spectacle! But it was a fun ride. I unpacked everything in my apartment, which is basically the entire top floor of his house. It's pretty cool! I fell asleep around 6 pm and didn't wake up until 7 am this morning - oops. But it felt really great, and I'll definitely be on track to wake up on a normal schedule this week and beyond. This was kind of a boring update, but I'm about to go buy some food and other vital supplies.

Bis später!

-- wait one other cool thing that I forgot when I wrote this earlier: I met a prof on the plane from Rome to Frankfurt who lives in France. We talked a lot about modern philosophy, art, music, and literature. Hopefully I'll be going to her place in France on Saturday for a little meal. That would be so cool - I'm glad I started a conversation with her because I was a bit apprehensive at first. She also gave me a copy of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet. Very cool, right??