münster--finally!

Hello all! I finally made it to Münster--three flights and 24 hours of travel later! My parents took me to Minneapolis on Wednesday night, and I stayed with my friends Kristin and Hannah who drove me to the airport last Thursday morning for our first flight of the day from Minneapolis to Chicago. We had a bit of a layover in Chicago, so we passed the time by playing cards and talking about how excited we were for Münster!

Our next flight took us from Chicago to Frankfurt, Germany. We flew with Lufthansa, and it was easily the coolest plane I've ever seen. There were STAIRS in it. No one else in my group thought it was quite as cool as I did, but that's okay. I tried to watch a couple of movies and sleep on the way over, but that didn't work so well, and we were all exhausted by the time we got to Frankfurt at about 7:00 am German time. We had another flight to catch to Münster, so we made our way through the Frankfurt airport, drank some free coffee, and caught our last short flight to Münster, where our professor met us.

Once we got into Münster, we stored our luggage and walked around the city to keep ourselves awake. I was so happy to see the cathedrals and the castle again, as well as the rest of the city! Because we were all so tired, we went back to our classroom for a little while before we met our host families and just sat there, trying to make conversations that made sense and not always succeeding.

We met our host families at a cafe near the Münster Hauptbahnhof (train station), and went home with them. My host family is amazing--they're very welcoming, and they all think I'm best friends with Barack Obama because I have a picture of him on my screensaver from when he spoke at Luther! They only speak German to me, which is good because it forces me to use my not-so-good German, which is hopefully getting better!

Today's the first day of classes, so that's where I'm off to right now--I hope all is well with all of you!