Eternal Spring

And now I'm in Germany. The airport (DTW) was almost completely empty when I got there. I had never seen it with so few people. It took me five minutes or less to check in, check my bag, and get through security. That is a record. And then I had over an hour until it was time to board the plane, so I wandered around the airport. The plane was also very empty. I would say it was less than half full. I watched four movies during the flight: Stuck On You, Bee Movie, Brother Bear, and Chicken Little. And then I watched some SpongeBob. I saw the moon from the plane. It looked closer.

We got to Frankfurt early and went through customs and all that crap fairly quickly. The most time consuming part was waiting for the luggage to come out. So I got into the normal part of the airport and looked at the time. It was about 7:30am. I had already bought a train ticket through the internet a couple days before, but I had planned to take the 9:54 train to Freiburg. But I knew that trains run every other hour direct to Freiburg and in the other hours, there is just one time where you have to change trains. I didn't want to wait around for more than two hours, so I quickly checked the train schedule to be sure and then went as fast as possible from terminal 2 to the train station. But these two things are about as far apart as they get in this airport, so even though I had 20-30 minutes, I wasn't sure if I was going to make it. Luckily, though, I did make it. The train was already there when I got to the platform, but I still had a couple minutes.

Nidhal wanted me to call him from the airport, but I didn't have time because of the train thing, so I called him from the Freiburg train station. He was randomly in town buying me a birthday cake, so he was in the train station even before my money in the pay phone ran out.

In a German TV show last night, they were talking about the thickness of pizza crust, that it varies in the USA but in the rest of the world it's thin/Italian. Then they said that one thing is the same everywhere... that the pizza crust is round. And, of course, they are wrong.

There is a Pepsi Strassenbahn.

It's like spring here. I didn't wake up today until 1pm, but apparently it was really nice this morning. This afternoon it got a little cloudier, but it was still warm/cool. Spring always makes me reminisce. The springs of my freshman and sophomore years made me want to listen to a lot of band music. And the spring of my freshman year also made me want to do my homework. It reminds me of The Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, and some movie I used to watch about something/somebody named Argon. Sigh sigh sigh.