I have successfully arrived on the other side of the pond, and aside from the difficulty I'm having with this keyboard - it's very good to be here!
I arrived yesterday around 12:30pm, and while I waited for Lucia's father I realized that there are many other people who arrive at airports not knowing who it is that they're meeting. The first man asked me if I was Emilie (who, as it turns out is a French exchange student), and when the second man told me that he was not Herr Knoll (Lucia's father) and that I didn't look like Tim Collins (who it turns out was a hockey player) I sat myself down and waited patiently. Within no time, two German children became very interested in me and the fact that I speak very little German. As I've experienced in the past, children are the best people to learn another language from - they're very patient, have relatively small vocabularies and are totally uninhibited about asking you questions - including 'Wie kommst du?' (their mother scolded them for being so informal) and 'du heiße?' (once again, a scolding for being so bold). Luckily, besides the German love songs that I'm able to rhyme off at a moments notice, I was able to confidently answer 'Ich heiße Haley. Ich kommst aus Kanada' They were incredibly excited that I was not Amerikana!
So. Lucia's father and sister are absolutely lovely. Lucia asked how the German was, and I explained that her family's German is very good, and my English is very good, so we get along quite well.
Lucia is from Schwabmunchen - about 1 hour from Munchen. So far, I've only seen her family's house and garden, and the inside of my room where I slept for almost 19 hours... but perhaps tomorrow I'll venture out and see the rest of the town.
Auf Wiedersehen
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