So, here’s the long and short of it! I’m in a hostel in Cologne right now after having arrived yesterday with two of my friends from Germany! Not without drama though – the UK leg of our journey was fairly uncomplicated, though one of the girls got caught in a traffic jam. This did lead us to the conclusion that she, in our self-fabricated Top Gear stylee race, was definitely James May. I was Clarkson, despite not being neither tall nor loud enough!

However, if we were starring in a German version of Top Gear, we would have all lost abysmally on a general bad sense of direction and difficulty understanding instructions and directions. Guh. Turns out it’s a lot easier to manoeuvre around Germany’s various modes of transport when you have someone telling you specifically where to go, as was the case when I visited Berlin in sixth form. It didn’t help that we were each lugging a massive suitcase around Cologne’s city centre.

There was typically drama with my suitcase – 20kg was my limit, and I was at 24 when I checked. Oops. Managed to play a little game of switcharoo and got it down to 21kg – 1 kg extra they didn’t;t charge me for, might I add. Moral of the story? Len wins at luggage allowance.

Yesterday was a fun filled day in Cologne, but I’ll update you on that after today’s (hopefully) equally fun filled day! The induction course starts tomorrow. According to a previous student, we’re staying in a monastery where the bells ring at 6.30 am every morning. I’m a heavy sleeper so hopefully I’ll sleep through the first few!

Auf wiedersehen!