Welcome to Germany

Just the other day I set out on the 8 hour trip from Elspit, Netherlands to Dorndorf Germany. This trip began with a one hour bus trip to the train station. When we got there I dragged my very heavy luggage down the stairs to wait for the train. Waiting in the sun (it will eventually become a 31 degree day) I began to think that wearing jeans was a bad idea (it was!). Me and the 11 other trainnees and 3 committee members board the train and find our seats. Now, most of the seats are in pairs and all face the same way however there are a few sets of 4 seats that face each other with a table inbetween. I sat at one with a table, sitting accross from two french guys, and beside a fellow trainee. At this point I am extreamly hot from being outside and and carrying my luggage so I am happy to sit down and fall asleep for a while. As I wake up from my nice little nap I notice the trainnee sitting beside me is leaving the train to go another way to his placement leaving the seat beside me vacant. Now what I failed to mention earlier is that my seat was a window seat so when the seat beside me is quickly snatched up by a friend of the the french boys who are sitting accross from me I am stuck. They all start speaking in french so I plug in my ipod and read my book, but I really don't mind. As our first stop gets closer I grab my bags and wait near an exit. All the intermenno kids unload the train and I follow the gang to the next platform. At this point in the trip I have to leave on a different train to go east instead of farther south (like the rest of the trainnees). I am extreamly nervous my train will leave without me so knowing my seat is in car 23 and the car infront of me is 24 I board thinking I can just walk the one car length. I board the train and turn right. However the car to the right is a beverage cart, car 23 must be one more car over I think. NOPE i was wrong I should have turned left to begin with, so i trudge back 3 cars to where I will find my seat. I finnaly find a place for my luggage and sit down. A lovely german women start speaking to me and I obviously have no idea what she is saying, however she soon realises I am not german and is polite and asks me where im from etc. As I sit in my spot i realise I am not getting any cooler but hotter. The AC in this car of the train is broken. As I sit and wait for the train to start moving I notice a rather large german man sitting right outside my window eating an ice cream.
I still have 4 hours to go till I am in Dorndorf.
I fall asleep again on the train and wake up a tiny bit cooler but still hot. I find my way back to the beverage cart I walked through earlier and pay 2.80 € ( over $3 CAN) for a can of pepsi and to be honest, at this point I would have paid 5 €. Eventually my stop is coming up so I adorn myself with my luggage yet again. Waiting for my stop I realise the train I am on is going to be about 4 minutes late, giving me 5 mins to get to my next train instead of the original 9 mins. This means I am going to have to run. And run I do, well it looks like Im walking but i am sweating as if I am running a marathon. With one minute to spare I make my next train and settle in for the next hour. When i arrive at the train station I drag my luggage off and meet 2 of the people in my host family ( 2 of the children are at camp). We drive about 30 mins to my new home and I finnaly arrive in Dorndorf. Welcome to germany.

p.s I hope you can see the humor in this because I know I did. I knew if I didnt laugh I would cry, so laughed I did (in my head of course though, I already looked like a crazy tourist).