Hello from Frankfurt!!

So I have officially touched down on another continent for a new adventure!
I left Ghana at 11PM July 6, and got to Germany 730AM July 7, and here I am. I tried to figure myself out at the airport, but found it extremely difficult when everyone is speaking a different language and thinks I can too, everyone is speaking to me in German and I have no idea what they are saying!
I finally boarded the proper train away from the airport to the city center, and arrived at my hotel around 9AM, and luckily it is right outside the train station, so once I got to the proper train and station it was smooth sailing from there. The hotel is absolutely fantastic! I arrived early and they allowed me to check in 3 hours early, and have complementary buffet breakfast. My room is gorgeous as well... small but lovely. As soon as they told me I could eat I dove in - I had cheese and milk for the first time in two months so that was really exciting! I settled into my room and had a shower (not from a bucket... woo!) and was about to take a nap but the excitement of my surroundings was killing me, so I decided to check everything out. I left around 10 to find the shopping plaza that was nearby... I left like half my clothes in Africa, they were stained and stinky and gross, so I needed to buy a few things.

It is so weird not standing out like crazy, and being able to walk down the street without children running up to touch me. I miss it! Germany is gorgeous... the little I have seen thus far, but there are a few things that stand out right away; Germans smoke A LOT!!! In Ghana nearly nobody smoked, it was associated with fast living smelling but everyone smokes here it is disgusting. They are also pushy and don.t apologize when they smash into you... pretty annoying. Oh well.
Anyways I am having a hard time typing this out, I found a small internet cafe in the Turkish area downtown and the keyboard is messed up and has a bunch of funky characters and letters in different places, so I am signing off now. It is probably a good idea to maybe sleep a little, I am going on 36 hours with no sleep, and have slept minimal since Thursday, so I need to relax a litttle, but there is so much excitement to behold!

I hope I will have a chance for updates as I go.... I am in Frankfurt until Thursday, then off to Cologne then Berlin then Munich and finally Nuremburg before returning home. I am so excited!!


xo
Krystle