March 13, 2009
Ok here goes a kinda blog email thing I'm going to try to do everynite, but we'll see haha. Flight was good. Sooo much better than flying to Asia. Kinda wish it was longer so we could get a lil more sleep, but oh well. Our connection in London was insane. Like 45 min, and we had to go through security again! We literally ran. What a great wake up call at 8am London time, like 3am Dallas time. So we barely make our flight and ally and I ate like last to get on and someone's in our seats! And they won't move bc they have a baby or whatever. So luckily there are two seats together in the very back and we just grab them and sit down. What a crappy flight. It was only like an hr and a half, but it just sucked being so tired and hot and exhausted. Whatever.
We finally arrive in Berlin and go through customs, and let me tell you that was the easiest thing ever. Besides the officers talking to me in german and only being able to say hallo and danke. Immediately after that is baggage claim which is made easier by the fact that we all have gold ribbons on our bags. We grab everyone's bag off the belt except poor little ally. Her bag wanted to stay in ldn a lil longer, I don't blame it after seeing Berlin but more about that later. So we go down and meet up with our tour director alba and she takes aly and a Canadian boy to report their bags. I didn't go, but aly said that she had a hard time telling the counter lady her name and addy bc in german the e makes an i sound when you say it, or something like that. Anyways they told her it would be at our hotel by tonite, and it actually was. Way to go British air!
So we put all our suitcases on the bus and we're on our way to the hotel in east Berlin. Wow. This place doesn't really feel like Europe at all. Even walking around later and taking the tram to the alexanderplatz, it just doesn't feel all Europe-y like you would think. Omg and the weather this afternoon, barf! Cold, which I don't mind at all since it could be worse, but the sporatic rain makes it so much worse! I'm hoping and thinking that Prague and Munich will be better. They made us do tons and tons of walking today to get used to the time diff, but tomorrow we'll be mostly on buses and then dropped off for awhile and then back on. Thank god bc I already have a huge blister! We are also going to Potsdam tomorrow, idk what's there but I'm glad we're going bc it cuts down Berlin time which I don't mind at all. Then Sunday we'll travel to Prague via Dresden. I'm really excited about Prague so yay! So in conclusion: british air = awesomeness and berlin=not so much. I think that's all, I might read a bit and then it's off to bed for a kinda early rise tomorrow at 8. Talk to you guys tomorrow hopefully!
Love, Jenny
Omg I just realized that I didn't talk at all about the rooms. They are like cutie lil dorms. A door in the hallway opens to a lil mudroom thing with open closets and four doors. Two wc and two are the rms. We, the trip leader and I, share with a Canadian couple incharge of the other group with us. I'll take pics for sure! Ok g'nite!
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