Germany 2011-day 1

OCTOBER 2^ND –SUNDAY –DAY 1

This morning I woke up at 4:40am…way to early! I good up and got ready for my long day on the coach. I had to pack the stuff that I did not get in the night before. We arrived at the school at 5:30am. It was dark and rainy out that morning and very crappy! The bus left at around 6:00am for our journey of about 15 hours or more. I tried to sleep but I wasn’t working. After a while I was able to fall asleep but I was in the most uncomfortable position ever, but what made it even worse was that on and English coach bus you have to wear seatbelts, which are really hard to sleep in! I woke up a few hours later at around 8:30am. About an hour after that we stopped for our first break in Granthum, we only had 5 minutes though.  After the stop we started a movie, we watched 50 First Dates. When the movie was over we had a bit until we arrived in Dover for out ferry ride to France. When we arrived in Dover at around 12:00pm we were able to catch an early ferry. The ferry ride was about an hour from Dover, England to Calais, France. When we arrived in France we drove for about another 6 hours with no stops at all. We drove from France to Belgium then through The Netherlands, then into Germany. During that time we watched another two movies, Little Folkers and The Devil Wears Prada. We arrived at the youth hostel at around 9:00pm. Everyone was extremely tired a just wanted to go to bed. But because the youth hostel was partially an old windmill we had to climb so many stairs, with all of our stuff. My room was on the second floor of the windmill. All the boys were on the first floor so they were supposed to help us with our bags but no one helped me so I had to carry everything up to extremely steep staircases. Our room was VERY small. There were 8 of us in a room that was smaller than some of the 2 people rooms. Also our beds were triangular so that they could fit them all in.  they looked like coffins! Then we had to make our own beds with discussing sheets that some had blood on them. Then we had our dinner, which was salami and cheese. After dinner Natalie and me went to have a shower. There were only 3 showers for 27 girls. We went to the two that were in the basement and they were absolutely discussing! There were chunky bits in them and the drain in one was clogged. Also, there were two showers and only one spot to change so you had to change in the shower. The taps in the shower where like the ones in the sink because they only stayed on for a bit until they turned off and the water kept going from hot to cold and nothing in between. And then after that we had to walk all the  way from the basement to the almost the top of the windmill. That night we went to bed at around 11:30pm, so I was up for a total of about 19 hours that day.