Erin Explores Travel

Day 2: Meet and Greet at School

The next day we got up around 7:30 to get ready for school.  My roommate thought we had to catch the bus at 9.  So we got down to the bus stop which luckily is almost right next to our flat.  We got down there to find that it doesn’t leave until 9:20.  So we walked back up to our flat.  When we went back down, we met Shardi of Iran.  She is very friendly and lively.  There was a nice lady on the bus that told us where we needed to stop for school and showed us that we had to press the stop button when we wanted to get off.  Unfortunately, the bus doesn’t go straight to the Schloss campus, therefore we had to walk a ways after we got off; it was probably only like 10 minutes though. 

At school, they had coffee, tea, and croissants waiting for us.  The croissant thing I had was delicious; it had like cinnamon sugar and some crushed up nuts or something, I don’t know but it was so good!  Then we mingled for a while and took some pictures with our new friends.  Then we had a tour of the school; which didn’t take very long because it is quite small.  I didn’t realize before, but it’s actually a private school.  After the tour we went to pick up our student ID cards and pay for our semester ticket for the busses and trains in the region.  I also got a free SIM Card from the school; unfortunately, I haven’t been able to work yet! 

Cafeteria Food at EBS

Then we went to the cafeteria for lunch.  We had chicken with gravy and fries and mixed veggies (carrots, cauliflower, and broccoli) and I had apple juice.  Of course, it wasn’t like American apple juice, it was carbonated!  Everything here is carbonated! =(  Even the bottled water, its like soda water, disgusting!  

Aldi Shopping Trip

After we finished our meal, a group of us decided to take a walk to the Burg campus and find Aldi.  On our way out of the cafeteria, a group of people said some of them were going to Wiesbaden that night and we could meet them at school at 6 if we wanted to join.  I was so excited to find Aldi, something I recognized; of course everything is labeled in German, so it was difficult finding things.  We just got a few things like a bag of chips, soda to try, and sandwich stuff to hold us over until we came back.  

A Night in Wiesbaden

Then we went home and got ready to go to Weisbaden.  Unfortunately, we missed the bus, so we started walking and ran into Andrew and 2 other guys.  We then hopped on the train and rode it to school and got there a few minutes late but everyone was still there.  We stood there forever trying to figure out what to do.  Then we started walking to a bar that was supposed to be open however, we got over there and it was closed.  Then we ran into Adrian, a totally cute German student at EBS.  He was so nice and decided to change his plans to show us around Weisbaden.  So we hopped on a train and headed into the city. 

We went to one place but they said our group was too big so they wouldn’t serve us.  We found another little bar and surprisingly they let us in even though we pretty much filled their entire room!  They even pushed tables together  for us. 

Mai Tais and German Beer

Pretty much everyone got beer, but of course I hate beer so I asked the waitress who luckily new English what I should try and she said that the bar tender makes a really good Mai Tai so that’s what I got! 

It was delicious and so cute!  It had confetti on the straw!  Then one of my friends from France let me just try a sip of her beer so that I could say I’ve tried German beer.  And it was good!  I don’t know what American’s do to theirs, but they got it all wrong! 

Then we went back home and got ready for bed we had  to catch the bus at 7:20 the next morning for our first day of German class.