T-Minus 28 Hours

Hey everybody! Welcome to my blog about my upcoming semester abroad in Germany, and all the interesting, crazy, enlightening, and possibly stupid stuff I'm going to get into while over there!

Just kidding; I don't do stupid stuff. Anyone I know can tell you that.

But seriously, it's now 9:40 AM on Tuesday, March 3rd, which is 27 hours and 55 minutes from when my plane leaves the gate at BWI.

I still have to pack everything. EVERYthing. Procrastinator? Yeah, pretty much.

I'm so damn excited, though! Nervous slightly, yeah, for sure...mostly about two big things.

1) The initial trip to the University of Tübingen is going to be rather ridiculous. I'm flying from BWI to JFK airport in New York, then from JFK to Dublin International Airport in Ireland, and then from there (at 5:00 in the morning) to Frankfurt International in Germany, from which I have to take a train to Stuttgart, at which point I'll change trains and go to Tübingen, which will then lead to me walking with my luggage (or taking a cab, if I'm feeling beat) to the housing office, where I will pay my deposit in cash and get my key for my room. Then I'll go to my room and collapse, most likely.

2) I will know absolutely no one in this town. It's not a particularly huge concern, since I was in the same situation in Miami three years ago which worked out great. But this is a different country. Whoof!

Anyway, I should go pack or something. I'll try to update this blog as often as reasonable. It won't be everyday: "Today I woke up and went to class and ate food and went to bed", but I'll keep you all posted on how things go so that you won't miss a thing. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll cheer...it'll be good, I promise! Hahaha.

By the way: I'm calling this blog "Alex Does Europe", which is a variation of the title of the movie "Beavis and Butthead Do America". That's where that comes from, and I'm sure there are other examples of that type of wordplay that you can think of.