Dresden!!!

Hi everyone!!!!

Well, yesterday was very stressful, seeing as it was again a travel day! We all got up around 8, had breakfast, and got out to the trainstation. Our train was delayed around 10 mins yesterday. It was ridiculous, and while we only had one train exchange, we basically had to beg them to call ahead and make our other train wait for us. When we got to the Leipzig train station, we all had to book it for the train. Thankfully we all made it there safely.

After having gotten on the train, we were on it for what seemed like forever. We finally made it into the Dresden Hbf and we went to our Hostel. Our rooms in this Hostel are 2 people rooms, very nice. Since we had 11 girls and 10 boys, there was one room with jsut one person in it. I got that one person room! So nice. Each of the rooms have their own bathroom and shower! Major Score!!!

However, when we arrived at the Hostel they would not let us check in until a certain time, so they let us put our luggage in their storage room and we all went in search of lunch. It is about a 10 min walk into the inner city, and let me just tell you guys. Even though Dresden was 85% destroyed in WWII it is the coolest city building wise that I have ever been too!!! It is so completely insane with all of its gothic buildings. to try to impress upon you how destroyed Dresden was, let me just say that tehre are buildings that are still being rebuilt to this day!

We found a chinese restaraunt and thank god i9t was very tasty. I had noodles with chicken and matt had something with schezaune sauce. We both enjoyed it very much!

After lunch, we went back to the Hostel and we checked in, we got settled in, washed up a bit, etc. Because of the fact that yesterday was miserable with heat and humidity. So we were all basically sweating to kingdom come!

After the hostel, we went on a 2 hour city walking tour. Yay city tour, because they seem to be our lot in life on this trip. haha. (not really laughing)!

Anways, the man who gave the tour was a bit weird, I almost felt like becuase he knew that German was a second language for us, that we must have been deaf, because he would fix his eyes on someone and he would just go to town, almost shouting the info in your face.

We saw a lot of really awesome buildings, since they seem to grow like crabgrass here.

After the tour, we were treated to a gorgeous dinner by our program director Feleica Lucht. Basically it was our money, because we paid for the program, but it was less money out of our pockets.

We went to a lovely beir garden, which was actually really fancy. Felecia told us to oder what we wanted for food, the only thing she didn't pay for was drinks. I had a passion fruit juice and a bottle of water. For dinner, I had a very tender lamb chop with potato rosemary noodles and mixed veggies. IT WAS SOOOOO GOOODDDDD!!!!!

Matthew had a Weinerschnitzel with a ton of Hollondaise sauce, white asparagus, and huge potatoes. It was a very good night.

After dinner, we took the tram back to our hostel, and we prompty upon entering chastied by the Hostel staff to be quite. It was only 10:30 but she felt the need to tell us to be quite several times! It was ridiculous. After we got to our rooms, both matt and I showered, then we spent some time together.

After Matthew left, I spent some time reading in my book and went to sleep. It rained sometime during the night, thank god, because the temp. is down today, but still humid!

Today we are doing a tour of the Schloss and then a few of us are going to do a tour of the Opera house.

biss Dann