Sunday, May 16

we arrived at the airport and walked around for a bit, not really knowing where to go. but then we found where we were supposed to be and got our taxi ticket, bus pass, schedule, and map. and then dr. cothran came (finally) and kind of gave us directions on what to do but then basically she was like ok now take a tax to the house you're staying in... so that was kinda scary. but the group made plans to meet up at 12:30 for lunch and to just walk around/explore the city. so i was in a new country, new city, no idea where i'm going. but i arrived at my house, which was in a very quaint little neighborhood, and met the lady i would be staying with for the next 2 weeks. my bedroom was very similar to the broom closet harry potter used to live in, and i had to share a small bathroom with 4 other people, but hey, what can ya do? so then i basically sat in my room for the next 2 hours and cried. which was not very fun at all, really. but after cleaning myself up a bit, i ventured out into the land of downtown dusseldorf. got lost on my way there, but eventually found the main train station and all the people i was meeting up with. we got lunch at the hauptbahnhof and walked around with our little sandwiches. we went into the altstadt and walked around some more, but since it was sunday, pretty much everything was closed. since there wasnt really anything to do, we all just went our separate ways back home. i got back into my room, took a nap, woke up, took 2 ambiens, apparently talked to kelsey bouton, sean, and my mom (before seeing people that werent there, of course) and then went to bed for real. not a very exciting day.