A jet lag suffering cola-missy

Hello Germany, you have me back. I safely arrived after my long flight from Albuquerque in Hamburg. (Hannah, thank you for your nice email.) The first short flight from Albuquerque to Denver (with United) was very bumpy and I had a headache, talked the whole flight sideways to my neighbor what causes that I threw up in the last 5 minutes of the flight. Too bad. The first time I used the paper bags on a plane. I can tell you, they are made out of a good strong paper! I wonder why they are not supersized, because I just ate a sandwich before the flight and when I imagine what the average American eats…
[Frankfurt airport on my way to my gate. Color changing moving stairway. Spacy, isn't it?]
The flight from Denver to Frankfurt was better. My first long-distance flight with Lufthansa. When I entered the plane, my eyes started to get watered. I was impressed by the nice Stewardesses and the awesome new and modern looking inside of the plane. And I thought, now you are back in Germany…soon. To be honest, my tears were happy tears, I just don’t know why I was such a soft-girl at that moment. I went to my seat and was happy to find a row with only two seats (often there are 3 seats). I had a window seat, yay (I didn’t know what I get before). I talked to my nice neighbor (Pole, immigrated to Germany 20 years ago, works a lot in the US and other countries) for three hours straight. We talked about politics in the States, in Germany and Poland, about what we think about each country and about general life issues. The guy knew everything about German politics, he spoke four languages, and it was very interesting to talk to him. I am not that good with politics but somehow I impressed him because he said that he never met someone from Germany that is that world-open like me and that already experienced as much as I did. Smile. Nice compliment…and I sometimes felt so stupid when he talked about German politics with me. I guess I smartly covered my ignorance. Hi hi.
When the meals came, I still was too sick to eat, so I kept my tablet with the food for a few hours. The stewardesses were very nice. All of them. Very friendly. One of them came and asked if she should free me off from the cold food in front of me, but I explained that I had a migraine and my stomach was not fine yet. She asked me if I want to have a bottle of water. Oh, yes please! Great service, I got a 1.5 liter water bottle just for myself. The talk with my seat neighbor and drinking enough water made me feel better after a while. I had pasta in vegetable sauce, a bread roll with butter and a piece of chocolate cake (they know how to cure a woman, ha ha). I could eat my food, except for the Cesar’s salad…the Parmesan stink wasn’t acceptable for my stomach. I tried to sleep for a while but it was quite loud on the plane. Just behind me was the kitchen area where the stewardesses were talking and organizing food and drinks, and I also heard lots of people standing there, laughing loud, and talking as if they have a little party back there. I remembered that many people ran with beer bottles through the aisles. Lots of alcohol was served on this flight.
I could not really sleep. I forgot to tell you, that there was one weird thing that I noticed in the first minutes of taking my seat in the beginning of the flight. In the headrest area of the seat in front of me, where you normally find the little movie display, was a large empty hole. Nothing. Nada. No screen. This really disappointed me, because I looked forward to watch the newest movies during my long flight and hoped that they have more and better movies than United Air with whom I flew from Munich to Chicago a few months ago. My seat neighbor said, that this in one of Lufthansa’s savings. I could not believe that they don’t offer movies to watch on a long distance flight!! Unfortunately I packed my books in my luggage. They had magazines on board but I am not a (gossip) magazine reader. The German newspaper “Die Süddeutsche”, which I took when I entered the plane, was too heavy content. I wanted entertainment. I looked forward to relax while watching a movie (or two, or three).
In the whole cabin they only had two TV screens in the middle of the cabin, which I couldn’t see, because I sat too deep in my seat. They didn’t show movies on these two screens, anyway. Commercials and Flight information were displayed. What a bad Lufthansa surprise…
Although, I cannot complain about the food or the service on board, but for the next long-distance flight I would probably choose another airline. Singapore air shows how everything can be top, service, food and entertainment (movies & co). My seat neighbor said that Delta Air is ok, but I have read also bad things about them. Well, we will see, when I fly “back” to the States.

Now I am at “home”. When I landed in Frankfurt it was the best sunshine weather and it stayed like this until I reached Hamburg and an hour later my home. Nice welcoming weather. When I entered my house it felt weird. Everything was so sterile white and almost all rooms were a mess. Before I left, I packed half and more of my stuff in boxes, and now I feel not very homey because it looks like I should leave. The rooms are cold. I was freezing and switched the heater on that was shut down the whole winter. An empty fridge welcomed me. I already missed, besides the full fridge, the warm colorful house in Santa Fe. I already thought about some colors and how to paint my kitchen, the hallway, and the bathroom. Maybe I just need to become friend(s) with my home, again.
In the evening I watched TV, what can be weird when you didn’t watch it for a few months. I thought it is just nice to hear voices, then it is not so quit. I didn’t even watch much, because I cleaned my house and washed my clothes. I stayed awake quite long and Nathan called me at around one in the morning. He was at JCPenny’s to exchange a shirt that I bought. It had a large hole on the side and we wanted to exchange it, but there was no other S-size one, and because they don’t give you the shirt cheaper (what I don’t understand), Nathan said he will sew something on it. Didn’t I tell you that my hon is an all-rounder? Yes, he can sew and I don’t. Shame on me.
However, the first night in Germany I went to bed at three in the morning. I set three different alarm times, but I heard none of them and woke up at two thirty in the afternoon the next day. Damn. I wanted to avoid this. I guess I have a bad jet lag, because three in the afternoon here, is eight o’clock in the morning in Santa Fe. The following night was even worse. I talked with Nathan on the phone until almost five in the morning. I thought it is two in the morning. My time feeling is totally mixed up.
Tonight Nathan and I want to talk at midnight (my time). He needs to sing sleep songs for me, so that I can sleep afterwards. =) He did this before actually…
This morning my dad came over and rang the bell at ten o’clock and immediately I was awake and could stand up. I was glad that it worked so easily. I wanted him to wake me up, if he still sees my blinds down.
Wish me a good portion of tiredness tonight! I hate jet lags.

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