First Day!!

Well, the trip went well and I made it safely to Bodenseehof. My mom helped me settle in and came and enjoyed the day with me and met a lot of my new friends and roommates. I'm sooo excited about being here and so far it's been an incredible experience. Today we rode the bus into town (friedrichshafen) and walked around, went shopping, found the coffee place, and stuff. It was soooo cool!
I have really cool roommates. One of them is from Germany and her name is Bianca but we call her "Binkie" and the other one is from Oregon and her name is Rachel. We are expecting one more soon, but not sure when she'll arrive.
Oh, last night was fun, my mom and I slept in a youth hostile and in the same room was a girl from Bodenseehof named Heidi. She and I have become pretty awesome friends.
All in all it's been pretty awesome, good food, comfy bed, good strong christian people, and all around an awesome place to spend 6 months.
It's sooo beautiful here and everyone has such a cool accent!
Sorry, I'm kind of scatter-brained at the moment...I'm just kind of tired from the trip and the big day....hmmm what else can I say.....tonight we had a good meeting and introduced ourselves to everyone. That was pretty cool. We have a lot of German kids (obviously), Canadians, and people from Colorado!! There is quite a wide range of people too. I also met a girl today from Norway which was really fun!!
I'll have you know, the first thing I bought in Germany was a bottle of carbonated water! haha...I'm really looking forward to black current juice. (it's like grape juice and I drank it all the time in London when I lived there...and miss it terribly)
Thank you all for all your prayers. I'm too tired I think to post pictures tonight, but I may post them later this week. To tell you the truth, I'm surprised I got on the internet tonight. I've been having so much fun I almost forgot to email my friends and call my dad and brother....I felt kind of bad but I guess that's a good thing too! Looking forward to hearing from all of you!! I love and miss ya'll sooo much!!!

Jill<><