The Long Road Here

My first week in Germany has gone splendid so far. Getting here was a bit of an issue though. Let me explain. The plan was to fly from Houston to Washington D.C. to London to Cologne-Bonn airport. This is not how it unfolded however. Getting to London was alright, just a one hour delay on the runway in D.C. but London was a different story. Our 3:00 flight to Cologne was cancelled because the "aircraft was unfit for flight" so we got put on a plane to Duesseldorf. This plane was delayed for a total of another 5 or 6 hours. Leaving Shyanie, Sarah, Matt, and myself in the London airport for a grand total of around 10 hours. Finally arriving in the airport in Duesselforf at midnight that night, we then had to take a taxi to Bonn. My first experience on the Autobahn was intense. The taxi driver was going around 110 mph which is the fastest I have ever gone in a car before. All in all I arrived at my host house at 2:30 in the morning after the longest, yet still great, day of my life!

My host family is absolutely amazing! They are some of the nicest and most welcoming people that I have ever met in my life and I am very happy to be living there for the next few weeks. They have actually been to more states in the U.S.A. than I have (more than 20 states!) My host dad is actually in a hobby band and he likes to sit around and play the guitar and banjo. It's really cool! He actually restrung one of his old guitars so that it would be left handed so I can play it with him. 

Roger