Our beginnings in Germany

Hallo! Just thought we'd keep a little journal about our adventures in Germany as they occur. Hope you enjoy!
We flew out of Salt Lake City, UT on Sept. 22nd at 7 am and arrived in Frankfurt, Germany at 7am on the 23rd. With all of our luggage for the year, we took the train to Mainz (approx. 1/2 hr). Once we got to the main train station, we put our things in lockers while we tried to find our way around. Our first stop - Home Company to find an apartment. The first apartment we found is the one we fell in love with. We did look at a couple of others, but fell back on our first choice. We had never imagined finding a place on our first day here, not to mention within the first couple of hours! However, our landlord would not be available to give us the keys until 6:30, and at this point it was only about 2...we were exhausted at spent our time hardly talking while walking all over the train station, taking breaks on the benches, and a quick nap at the park nearby. At 5 we decided to walk to the friends' house we had originally arranged to stay at for the first couple of days to tell them we would not need their couch ;) Karim was very willing to help us with anything we needed, and also offered to take us back to the train station to get our luggage and take us to our new place. A little more waiting...then she finally arrived! We moved our stuff in quickly - and we were in bed soon afterwards. We slept until 3:30pm the next day! Oh jetlag is killer!
24th: Walked to the grocery store 5 minutes away, then got to cleaning. By 11 we had all of our things put away and were loving our place even more.
25th: Went to main train station again today to meet w/ Brody's assistant director for the school - we walked all around the little shops.
I'm really loving it here! Good thing Brody is here to talk to everyone and translate what others are saying - that part is hard to get used to...but I am very motivated to learn the language! The neighborhood we live in is adorable! Quiet streets, brick sidewalks, nice homes and friendly people :) Auf Wiedersehen for now!