At this time, we were already stepping on the floor of Hamburg. Yeah!!!
We were literally lost and disoriented and we had to get to our residence, Europa-Haus, so we went to ask for informations about the means of transportation to the residence. And the Hamburg airport’s officers told us it was better for us to take a taxi because it would be easier and safer to get to the residence. So we decided to take that decision. While we were in the Airport, we started to notice the German people.
They were all so different from us. In everything:
• The physiognomy: their eyes were mostly blue and their hair was blond.
• The personality: they were cold, reserved and quiet.
For instance, in the airport, we noticed that there was a group of german people having a coffee, and they spoke quiet and not loud.
We noticed that there were three children very excited while they were reading a book, something really weird to us.
Since here, we started realizing we had just arrived to a whole new and unknown world, where we could be ourselves and enjoy all the freedom this place has to give to us. :)
Because here nobody knows us.
Then we took the taxi and when we arrived to the residence, it was really funny because we had a problem with the speaking: we didn’t know how to ask for help with the luggage in german to the driver.
Then we got to the Europa-Haus, we waited almost an hour and we started to see some residents leaving the residence but they were all very cold and at 8 o’clock we met our tutor. She showed us our rooms and explained us the whole rules of Europa-Haus and we signed the contract.
When she left us all by ourselves, we decided to start unpacking the luggage and to fill our rooms up. Then we decided to give a little walk in the city.
We went to some shops in order to buy something to feed ourselves and it was really hilarious the fact of us trying to speak german and ending up speaking in English because the german people realized instantaneously that we were foreigners.
We had lunch in McDonald’s and then we went back to the residence, we talked a little bit about the Erasmus experience, which was being good but it seemed not be so good as we wished and then we decided to rest the whole day, since we were in the state of jet lag.
The next day we woke up at 10 o’clock and were much more excited about discovering this marvelous city.
Totally unworried and adventurers, without using a map, we decided to make our trip to the center of the city all by ourselves, and as we made our way to the center without even knowing where the center was, we were always marveled about what surrounded us: big and fantastic buildings, wonderful landscapes with ducks and swans, huge green parks and people riding bicycles or jogging all the time.
When we arrived to the center, we were amazed with the outstanding monuments of it and the river with lots of beautiful swans. There were lots of artists playing instruments live and there were an infinite quantity of shops. That was excellent! That’s when we started to love this city from the deep of our hearts and we wanted to start to know and discover it to the full.
After we have taken a walk in a little bit of the center of this city, because we found out that we only have been in a little part of it, even though we were amazed, we decided to go back to the residence but there was a huge problem: we got lost. xD
Without any sense of orientation, we decided to go back to the residence by foot and we gave an enormous walk in a huge park and then after trying to remember a point of reference and following all the streets that came in our way, we found our way back to the residence. Yeah!!!
After getting back to the residence, we went to a tour of it and we met some other Erasmus students who are now really special people to us.
What a great adventure we had in this first weekend!:)
But this was just the beginning…
The best is yet to come. :p
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