Hallo Freunde und Familie!

  

Welcome to our blog about our experiences as we travel overseas!

Even though Jonathan believes that blogging ruins the human experience, I think that he is wrong and want to share everything with our friends and family back at home. Blogging seems as though it will be the easiest way to communicate with everyone (if you are interested of course!), so I hope that you all enjoy it. 

As you all know the weather when we left Cleveland was horrible. Our flight was one of the only United flights that left Cleveland, so it was overbooked. As a result, they attempted to check our carry on bags... However, I wouldn't let her check our bags (since we wouldn't be able to pick them up until we landed I Berlin), and it turned out to be a wonderful decision on my part. 

Once the flight left Cleveland, we had no further problems until we reached Berlin. Our flights were comfortable, and Jonathan was amazed at how nice our flight to de Gaulle was. Apparently, his flight to Japan was not as comfortable, and his hardest decision as we flew was deciding which movies to watch in only 6 hours. The only bad experience was the fact that our luggage did not make it to Berlin with us (an experience that many other people from Newark experienced as well). 

Finally, we made it to Dresden where we were met by the program director and his assistant. They showed us to the International Guesthouse, which is where our apartments are located. They seem to be pretty well situated on campus, but we won't really know until our orientation.  The apartment itself is nice, though it is small, which we were expecting. 

As you may have noticed, we were able to go grocery shopping already. The grocery store is pretty cheap,which we love, and it has a nice variety of food (and even though we don't know a lot of the words on the labels, we are doing a good job of finding what we need).I hope that we will find a bigger store that will have more specific items, but overall the grocery store will be great for day to day use!

Other than the two "rooms" (there is dividing wall between them), we have a small bathroom as well, and a desk area across from our beds. The apartment is cozy, and the best part is our view, which overlooks some of the city.

All in all, Dresden has been great so far and we are really excited to continue to explore the city!