This post is coming a bit late - apologies - because the first few days in a new country can be somewhat hectic and confusing, I've learned. My flight and first two days in Germany are covered here.
The flight from Chicago- O'hare was quite nice actually. Once I said bye to dad in the airport and freaked out a bit about the fact that I was leaving everything comfortable to me, I made it through TSA without any hold-ups, and met Erik and Lindsey at our gate.
Erik is another Aerospace/Astronautics engineer in my program in Madison. He's studying at Uni Stuttgart with me. Lindsey is a CALS (agriculture) student studying soil science and is studying in Hohenheim, a smaller suburb and Uni outside of Stuttgart.
We flew over on a Boeing 777 which was a really nice plane. Being 6'3", I naturally was uncomfortable most of the way with no legroom.. Erik's mom bought him some "Economy Plus" seating with extra legroom.. i became pretty jealous of that by the time we landed. Still, each seat had a touch-screen TV on the back of it and we could watch movies and TV and play games the whole way over... I was entertained.
side note: Drive (Ryan Gosling) is worth watching if you're bored. The Descendants (Clooney) is a decent film as well, although mostly due to the younger actors and actresses making up for Clooney's lack of exciting work...
We had to wait in Munich for about 3 hours before our long train to Weinheim (where we stayed with Anne for 2 days) arrived, so we had a little time to explore the city and walk around .. Erik and I had just enough time to make it to Karlsplatz before we had to go back and board to Weinheim.
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