Orientation

I have been on the computer for awhile and so I need to make this short so they dont think I am getting homesick or something. Well the last few days have been orientation and they have been freaking amazing everyone is so nice and I wish everyone had this oppurtunity. I got the chance to see the White House, the Library of congress, Arlington, I got to visit the washington senator, I have just had an amazing trip. I will tell you on my next blog about my first week in Germany. But it was a 7-8 hour flight and I slept in every position imaginable except upside down...the poor people sitting next to me had (sorry Leanne and nice German lady) me sprawled all over them. But when I did wake up I was so hyper and was in that dilerious state of happiness where everything is funny. Well I got off the plane and we had to wait about3 hours for our train to Dusseldorf, which was an hour and a half. Then I met my family! and when I met them I accidentally spoke English, and then German and then I just went silent..but theey are great people!!! I also descovered that Germans drink carbonated water, Mary Loving told us not to write anything negative on our blogs, but it is going to take a while to get used to, thats all I have to say. But until next time my good friends! Aufwiedersehen!

I leave for Germany in exactly twelve days and now is the time my brain chooses to  feel absolutely terrified, I was so ready for this experience like three months ago?! Now I am thinking about all the things I don't know, the language for example? But have no fear I am beyond excited as well, I mean how can you not be?
Not to mention I keep hearing these things (that may or may not be rumors) about the German culture, for example:
         *The girls don't shave (well I can just mark shaver off my list)
         *They think ice and cold breezes will kill their kidneys or something ( goodbye refreshing water and air conditioning I will never forget you :( )
         * Their mean and blunt ( like if you look like crap you'll know it)
         *They don't have chocolate chips or oreos! (that was almost a deal breaker for me) lol
         *I have been told that carbs will become my new vegetable

          So all of the above concludes that I will return a fat, hairy, dehydrated, rude, german speaking deprived-of-sugar 18 year old. Oh! I can hardly wait!
          I am really excited, don't get me wrong, and I have no doubt that I will learn a lot and grow as a person. There will be a great deal of differences and changes between the cultures. But in the words of Roberts C. Gallagher:

"Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine." 

         I will try and keep this updated, if nothing else, weekly.
         Days until Washington D.C.: 7 Days
         Days until Germany: 12