Back in Germany... for a day...

Hey guys,

So I got back to Germany yesterday. My plane left on Wednesday afternoon and I got in Thursday around noon. The first half of the flight was fairly uneventful. The transfer in Frankfort was a little stressful as I almost missed it... I only had an hour layover there and the flight from Charlotte to Frankfort sat at the gate for like half an hour. I finally got off the plane at 11:20 and my next flight was leaving at 11:55... and I had no boarding pass and no idea which gate the flight was leaving from. Thus I did a lot of running. Everyone I kept running into and furiously asking for help kept telling me to calm down, I had plenty of time. Well, they were wrong. I didn't. When I finally got to the counter to print out a boarding pass I was informed that I was already too late, the plan had started boarding at 11:20 and they couldn't print a pass out for me anymore. After I replied that they needed to do something, the ticket counter lady escorted me to the first class security line and pushed me through to the very front without a boarding pass. Of course I beeped with no metal on me and got searched. And then had to run past 16 gates with 15 minutes before the plane took off because I was gate A17, as it turns out, and then I had to beg for a boarding pass at the gate... which she did give me, and told me to relax and then to please board immediately. I got on the plane and asked the nearest flight attendant for a glass of water. Quite the wake up call there. No sleeping on that flight!

Anyway, after that it was uneventful again. I'm back in my dorm, and as I write, actually packing up to leave for Austria, where I'm headed for the weekend. I've been promised another skiing trip. Crossing fingers I stay alive on this one as well. I was back in Germany for a full day before I left the country again. I haven't even finished unpacking. Oh well. There'll be time for that later.

Also got another grade back- I got a 1,0 on my Econ exam! 1,0 is the highest possible grade. Yay! (Okay, not overly surprisingly since those are the essays I wrote in English... but still).

Also also, the religion sociology paper is coming along... I'm over halfway done, which is good because I was planning on having Lisa read it this weekend. I'll be doing a lot of writing on the train ride there... I have till April 1st to turn that in.

I'll give an update sometime after I get back on my plans for the next couple of weeks. Now, I'm off to the train station!