So, as a quick note, don’t count on the strict chronology of these posts. It turns out, WiFi is unreliable when you’re traveling about a million miles a day.
Anyway, right now I’m on a train with the gang, headed to Stuttgart (my phone just autocorrected that name so it better be right). I feel a bit like Harry Potter, a bit like Mr. Bean, but mostly like a kid from Kansas who’s currently stuck right in the middle of a foreign country.
All in all, the first impressions are fairly positive. I was pretty sure I would feel uncomfortable surrounded by people who’s language I don’t speak, and I DO, but it’s not like I didn’t see it coming. The time to fix that problem was 5 years ago, not yesterday. Turns out, Germans seem nice, or at least, as many people seem nice as they do in the States.
I guess that’s it for now. I could tell a couple stories about my experiences with the public bathrooms, but I haven’t the strength.
The People’s Car 