Airport Feelings

At 315 AM, Thursday, October 1st ---with four very overloaded bags, I caught a train from Munich to Frankfurt. 3 planes and one car ride later I was back in the good ol' U.S. of A.

I've been MIA from my blog, because I have learned a few lessons the hard way:

1) Although drinking will make your cold feel better temporarily, it is in fact, not a type of cold medication

2) When experiencing a cold, it is not the best idea to head straight from the Wiesn (locals name for Oktoberfest) to a train and then 3 planes.

3) Apparently, flying with a cold is bad. The pressure changes can affect your hearing.

The whole flight experience was pretty much insane, since I went straight from partying in the tents to a train. In all of my ultimate wisdom I forgot to take a shower---so I was pretty much an untouchable, seeing as I smelled like some horrible combination of smoke, beer, and sweat. Nice. Also, as soon as soon as I came down from my first flight, I immediately lost my hearing. I spent most of the time walking around feeling like I had head phones even when I didn't. Annoyingly, every time the plane went in the air my hearing would go back to normal, but as soon as we landed it would be gone again.

On a positive note, I ended up with a 300 dollar flight voucher for volunteering to take a later flight, even though this extended my home journey time to over the 24 hour mark. But now I have an excuse to celebrate my birthday and New Years in New York. :)

For the last 10 days or so I have been home I have mostly been hiding out and trying to rid myself of this horrible head cold/regain some sort of reliable hearing. My GRE test date has also been looming over my head, so I've tried to spend most of my conscious time at least pretending to study. After the 20th, things will be a lot less stressful. I am healing a bit and will try to post more about my summer travels, Oktoberfest, and Germany asap.