Arrival!

Wooo! Local time is 6:18 AM, just arrived in the Frankfurt airport and am now waiting for my connecting bus to Strasbourg.  This sounds silly, since I supposedly read the entire itinerary before leaving, but it totally didn't occur to me that to get to France I would be going through GERMANY.  Therefore when we landed I was like, "crap, I don't speak any German!!"  :)  Thusfar everyone has been extremely helpful; there is even an entire group from College Park here en route to an honors college trip to Croatia- pretty fun stuff, right? Side note: internet at the airport is like 5 euros an hour, geez, but I HAD to update y'all and call home, right? Right :).....aaaaand check facebook of course. hehe

Up next: arriving to Strasbourg, and figuring out how the heck I get to the Syracuse center.  Wish me luck!

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Local time: 2:44 PM. Woooo I'm tired.  After getting off the plane and figuring out how to take a bus into the city, I then had to take a second bus through the city and then ask several people for directions (en francais) about how to get to the Syracuse Center.  Lucky for me, I found it and there were already two other girls from the program waiting there.  We met up with a third girl and had lunch at this little cafe called "Chez Patrick", where we met this really nice NY/Parisian war vet who told us the ins and outs of the city.  After taking a long walk through the l'Orangerie gardens, we are crashing now in our jet-lagged, full-bellied glory at the (super-cool) center. Later we get to meet our host families, yikes!

Becky