The best day ever!

So I am going to start at the beginning with my wonderful journey to Hannover and back. :)

I woke up at six thirty this morning my time, got ready, and then ate breakfast with Doris, my Host Mom. (She's cool.) Then I ran downstairs into the basement to get my warm clothes because well i needed clothes. haha.

So then I ran back up two flights of stairs to my room, finished getting ready, grabbed my purse with my train ticket and then ran back down stairs to put on my boots and coat. (Notice I haven't once gone to the bathroom yet.) So then we drove, in the snow, to the train station here in Lage so I could catch my first train to Herford at 8:09. So it came at 8:12; stupid train.

Well I told Doris bye, and jumped one my train where I was on my own fighting through the german train system...alone...all the way to hannover. (2+ hours) So I made it to my first stop to Herford where there was a twenty minute wait until the train arrived. So I stood there in the cold...so about 5 degrees Fehrenheit. Rediculous! Intense.

Then I got on the next train where I thought I would never get to Hannover which I acutally did.... thirty mintues later. And then I got a txt message that said, "hey there is a car crash on the autobann, so i will be late." Great I'm already late, and now Julian, my german friend here that i met in the states is late too. So then I stood there by the Gleis (no idea what that's called in english...um...i seriously just looked this up on leo.org....platform).... waiting for Julian to come when this [ugly] man walk up to me, and said, "I just have to stop and tell you that you are just such a beautiful young lady." So of course, I smile and say thank you. He goes away, and then I continue to wait, until..... he comes back five seconds later to say, "You are certainly waiting here for your mother, aren't you?" Think fast Michelle.... don't tell him the truth that you are just visiting A friend... then he won't leave you alone... what to do??? I know! "Actually I'm meeting 'mein Freund' translated....my boyfriend." (Which he's not.)

So the guy..the [ugly] guy, looks me in the eye and asks when he is coming. Honesly I had no idea... he said he'd call when he got there... so i said, "in just a few mintues." And he responded, "oh i was hoping like three hours...i want to get some coffee with you. Can we?" Um... "NOOOOOO!" hahaha. "No, i am sorry i have to go meet my [boy]friend at another store..."

So then he went a way and i went to the entrance of the train station in probably the biggest city i have been to yet in germany. (ALONE) And i waited. And waited. And waited. And then I walked to mcdonald's to go to the bathroom, but i forgot that i am not in america anymore and you have to pay to pee. so i walk back to my postion at the entrance of the station. It's now ten till eleven. (we were suppose to meet at ten.) So i am thinking in the back of my head, "michelle you have been completely stood up. BUT! then I finally get a phone call, and see julian. So then we start walking and decide to go to the post office to mail a letter, and then go to get some coffee because it's stinking cold.

So then we talked in english, and then he would trip me up and talk to me in german, and i wouldn't notice that he switched languages. I hate that Ay. but it's funny at the same time. So then after we drank our coffee we walked through the city, looked at a little bit of the pretty buildings, and then met up with his english teacher, who also only talked to me IN ENGLISH. so then after that we looked at really expensive stores, but decided not to go in. And we then decided after two hours of just lolly gagging around that we would go back to his house for a little while and he'd show me his town, and i'd meet his parents.

So we went back to nordstemmen and then had some coffee, talked to his parents, and i played with his golden retrever. :) And i went potty at so two something. So then we decided to go look at his parents business, a fitness studio. Cool! then he should me his awesome private school, and then he invited me to go to dinner. So i said yes, and we went to dinner where he ate the salad and i ate the pizza.

So then we drove back to hannover and walked to the weihnachtsmarkt, and stood in the freezing cold to wait for my trian... by now it's -16 degrees celicus.... 3 degrees F. intense! So then I am finally on my train that came on time.... but some how got behind schedule...so i missed my next train back to Herford. I forgot that there were these really annoyed drunk guys that kept asking me to come to their party. they had over six beers with them, and this wonderful lady who lived in the town that we stopped in, and helped me find a new train to herford. so i get on the train to herford/bielefeld knowing that bielefeld would be just 30 min. from home... but then when i called me host mom she said no come through herford. so my train left herford 10 minutes before i got there with the new trian. so then i had to get off, and find a new one.

but before that there were more guys on the next train that kept asking me why i was so tense....who were also drunk and kept asking me if the guy beside me was my boyfriend...which was a guy that i didn't know. so they kept staring at me and asking me where i came from. booooo! so then when i got to herford they were like have a great weekend... yeah danke... and then i asked some guy with a brown mutze which gleis i was suppose to go to to get to lagge (lippe) my city train station but he could he my accent and said zwei...um..two. ughhhh!

so then it's only eight ten and i was to aufgeregt (leo.org) that i could think of what i was trying to say when i asked this other guy if i had time to go to the bathroom. ha he asked me if i spoke english.. which to i answered yes. and it turned out he is an englander who lives here in germany for the past few years. cool huh? so he said yeah you've got like twenty minutes. but then i couldn't find the bathroom, and had to ask. and the guy told me once again i had to pay fifty cents... but there was a line, and i didn't want to miss my trian so i went back up to the gleis to wait on my train. crazy.

and me and the englander started talking. and then we sat by eachother on the train and talked and asked every other sentecnce for the other person to use another word because we didn't understand each other. he then told me i should go back to hannover where he lived some day. hahaha. and then i found out his name was johnny, and then we talked and i was able to be funny michelle liek always because it was english. and then i got off my train and went home with my host dad, rolf.

In the car I told him this whole story and then, when i got home i told my whole family the story. and now i am sitting here writing it down for you...but then i'm going to bed!