Where am I?

Some of you are probably wondering where I am in Germany. I am in Lammersdorf which is kind of like a borough of Simmerath. Manhattan:New York City as Lammersdorf:Simmerath. Hope that helps. There are 4, maybe 5 more ''boroughs'' in Simmerath. The nearest small city is Aachen and it is about 30 km away. It takes about 15-20 minutes to get there by car (my host dad, Ralf, drives very very fast :). By bus, it is quite a bit longer but that is how i will get to my language camp most of the time so it's ok.
Ok, now back to the beginning. We landed in Frankfurt around 7 o'clock on Thursday morning after leaving Washington D.C. at 5:15 the previous night. It took about 15 seconds per person to get thru security. All the customs officer did was look at my passport, stamp my visa, i said danke, he said bitte, and then i was off to the baggage carousel. After getting our bags we had to haul all of our stuff what seemed like a half mile thru the airport until we got to the train station. We dropped off our luggage at the platforms and went off to get something to eat since the airplane food was nicht so gut. My first ever purchase with Euros in Germany was an Apfel Lift (carbonated apple juice) and a croissant with Schokolade. I even ordered in German, which I was very proud of. After waiting for 3 hours for our train, the ICE (inner city express, i think) to Köln finally came. After we got to the station at Köln, we had to drag our suitcases around the station a bit more until we got to our next platform. It was especially hard because everyone had at least 2 suitcases and 1 or 2 small bags. And we were all pretty much dead by then from being so tired. We got to the Aachen Hauptbahnhof around 2:15. It was nice because everyone's host family was there and we were allowed to just leave and we didn't have to hang around or anything.
Basically the day I got here, i went and bought some sandals because i got really bad blisters in D.C. so I couldn't really wear close toed shoes. We had dinner (Bratwurst und PORK STOMACH) I had pork stomach because I didn't know what it was until the end, but it wasn't that bad, just really chewy.
Yesterday, Meike taught me how to ride the bus to Aachen for my language camp. It is pretty easy and i don't think i will get lost. After that, Ralf picked us up in his blue VW cabriolet golf and took us to the wedding of Meike's old teacher. Here in Germany, everyone must go to a special place to get married before an official and then they can go to a church or wherever and get married in front of their family and friends. We only went to the building where the brautparr get married officially. We stood outside with roses and when the bride and groom came out, we handed the roses to the bride and said ''herzlichen glückwunsch''...i think its kind of like ''congratulations''.
I'm really tired but I want to write so much more. We are going to Herne tomorrow to pick up Sven from Oma und Opa's house. It will take 1.5 hours to get there so not too bad.
I will try to post again tomorrow. Ralf installed wireless today so using the computer is a little easier.
I'm getting better at my German!

<3 Carrie