Finally!!

Hello all my friends!

Well I am finally here in the great land of Germany. And let me tell you, it was not easy getting this far. So I believe in my last post I was stuck in Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, ya? Well I ended up being delayed there for an extra three hours, which in turn led me to miss my flight on AirIndia from Chicago to Frankfurt. So I got into Chicago and the check-in for AirIndia was at the very far side of the airport with all the other teeny foreign airlines. So I made my way down there and found that AirIndia had closed for the night and didn't have any more flights to Germany for quite awhile (like days) so they sent me back down to US Airways to have them try and book me on a flight. And while wandering around O'Hare I met up with this all-around goofy (I mean goofy-looking too) Army guy. It turned out he was stationed in Germany and supposed to be on the same flight as me. So Zach (the goofy one) and I fought together to try and get the freak out of Chicago and over to Germany.

We ended up getting booked on a flight the next morning that had a three or four hour layover in Philadelphia. Because with my luck, of course there weren't any non-stop flights. And this whole time my baggage is who knows were and all I have in way of overnight necessities are my contact case (no solution), a sweater, and Christoph's (my German-Brother) Christmas present from my mom- Pajamas. Luckily for me my Mom's brother, Kent, and his family live outside of Chicago. So he and Jenny came in practically the middle of the night to get poor Amy and give her a place to sleep for a couple hours. I was so happy I had a bed to sleep on and not those horrible airport chairs!

From then on not much else went wrong. The US Airways guy was able to validate my ticket, or something, and get me through security with barely enough time to get a $7 cup of fruit before I had to board my plane. My friend Zach was either not lucky enough to get his ticket approved or went AWOL like he was talking about, cause I never saw him again. I had a really nice German girl (who spoke English, thankfully!) who sat next to me from Philly to Frankfurt. She shared her wisdom of Germany and so on with me and helped me calm my nerves a little. It was good to have a friendly face to talk to on that horribly long flight.

When we finally got into Frankfurt I waited around the baggage carousel for a little bit hoping, in vain, that maybe my luggage was there. After filing a missing baggage report with the dear man at the counter, I went out of security and met the Grandfather of the family I'm working for. He had a picture of me and my name on a paper. I felt kinda important having someone waiting with my name. Anyways he didn't speak English very well, or much, so we had a nice quiet ride home. And can I just say that I love the Autoban!! I've always heard about it but never actually been on it. You can really go as fast as you want, and man those Mercedes-Benz semi's fly!

So I got a little nap, met the family and so on when I got to the house, as to be expected. I really like the family. The three kids are really loud and my room is an office-turned-bedroom, but its cozy. I can't talk with the other Au Pair much though because she only speaks German and her native Spanish. I'm loosing a lot of weight cause the family only eats organic food. German food itself is enough of a culture shock, but organic German food is even more odd. But all is good cause I think I'm going to rally up some good ol' McD's or maybe Taco Bell tomorrow when I travel an hour by various modes of transportation for FHE with my fellow LDS-American Au Pair Mallorie.

Wow, I've written a lot. I have to tell you straight up that I'm too lazy to write in a real journal, so this here blog is doubling as one. That is why it is so lengthy and detailed; I want to document this ridiculous-ness for posterity.

Well I'm out and wish you all the best week ever. Hopefully I'll be able to update more often now that I finally have my luggage and adapter. Till next time!