I began my trip on Wednesday May 13th, 2009. I had breakfast with my parents and then began my drive to Dayton. Seven of my fellow engineers booked the same flight from dayton to Cincinnati then Cincinnati to Frankfurt, Germany. I made it to Dayton with no problems, i got to see a couple friends before I was picked up by Frantz's mom. We met everyone outside of security and then cleared security. We were delayed 15 minutes leaving Dayton due to a ground traffic hault from Cinci. which worried us due to the fact that our lay over in Cinci is only 45 minutes. We arrived in Cinci, met up with a few other people and were one of the last people on the plane.
I was all set and ready to sleep on the plane. I had my simply sleep, i got a glass of wine, and i had my pillow and blanket. My body however had a different plan; it was not going to let me sleep at all. Needless to say i saw both movies and a few episodes of bad tv before our arrival in Frankfurt. The customs check inside the frankfurt airport consisted of a customs agent scanning passports, no paperwork of any kind and no immagration. We found our train, bourded, and found our seats. I immediatly fell asleep. There was lots of leg room and the seats were more comfortable then the airplane. I was woken up a few times by Brad who pointed out some very cool and a few very funny things.
When we arrived in Leipzig (pronounced Leipzish) we were greated by our professors and student mentors. My mentor's name is Anne. She speaks english very well and is very very nice. When realizing that i spoke no German, she said "we'll have to work on that". Which i planned on doing. We were issued more paperwork, train passes and internet sheets, etc. and then we were on our own with our mentors. We took the tram to our dorm, dropped off our bags, and tried to make it to the store before they all closed at 8 pm. We got our essentials and made it back to the dorms. I entered my room and was greated by an asian man that spoke about 3 words of English. We got directions from our new German friends and parted ways with them. On edge of shear exhaustion.... we decided to go find a bar. We found a nice cafe where we ordered the house beer by saying, "ouse bier bitte". After a couple beers we made our way home, after all, we do have class at 9 am.