Sun Jan 4 14:16:20 EET 2009

My first flight with a plane

The time for flying back to the Netherlands has come. Before we departured from the Netherlands with the help of Nomen we had reserved tickets to fly with one of the planes of W!zz air. Thanks to God the flight was flawless and we take off and landed alive to the Dortmund airport. The experience was nice it's especially cool when the plane accelerates before it takes off. and when it lowers in order to land and the landing itself, cool! I experienced to be more scary but it was quite OK. I prayed a bit before we take off and before we landed. We met Nikola another guy from the Bulgarians who lives in the same dorm where I do. Which was a nice thing because he has already traveled from Dortmund to Arnhem and he knew which bus we need to take to go to the central train station in Dortmund. In fact the Dortmund airport is near to another town and is 30 minutes away with a bus from the central train station. I asked few Germans which bus do we need to take and few of them told me I had to take another bus from the one that Nikola said and I almost did which was going to be a mistake because this bus doesn't go to Dortmund's central train station but to other near town train station. Happily when I was already in the bus one Bulgarian told us that this is not the right bus so I went down from the Bus. We had to wait an hour for the next bus which was going to Dortmund's central train station. We went to the train station. Asked for the nearest time when we can get a ticket to Arnhem, the closest we could take required us to change trains 4 times! Terrible but since no many options were available and considering the train price 38 EUR which is better than 50 EUR. We took the tickets and catched the train. The first train was really nice it had plugs in it. This is the first time I see a train with plugs pretty cool, eh! :) That traveling was exhausting for me because I haven't slept nicely for few days. I felt like a porter. Wearing this heavy bags for so long changing trains. The whole trip from Dobrich to Arnhem took us something like 24h! With bus it takes around 48h but at least you don't have to care about changing trains wearing heavy bags and so on and so on. By the way I liked Germany much more than The Netherlands. The only thing I disliked there is that people to answer to the questions you raise in English in their native German language. But yes that's probably normal since we're in their country. Only a couple of ppl answered in English. I determined that I could understand a lot of the writtings in Germany. Probably the 5 years I had "studied" that language aren't so pointless as I thought before. Now it's Sunday I'm staying in the Dormitory after I had a nice sleep last night and thinking what I'm gonna do tomorrow. Tomorrow I have a defense on one of my projects I'm not really prepared. Actually I'm at a point of my life that I don't care anymore what will happen. I realize that I cannot control things so everything is up to God. I should note that I owe a lot to Nomen and thank him for everything he did for me when I was in Bulgaria and for the fact that he brought me to Sofia's airport with his car (Honda), he call her (Hondio) :) We traveled to Sofia with Desislava and Nasko the trip was quite a fun one. Nomen has left me to drive for 100 or 150 km. He did so a couple of times when we still were in Dobrich for which I thank him as well. I also thank to God who has strenthened me again and gave me power to successfully travel from Dobrich to Sofia and from Sofia to Dortmund and from Dortmund to Arnhem! Thanks Lord for your kind mercy!