So I am here. Outside the country for the first time. America it is! No wonderland! Just another part of the world. So far, I have met mostly the Indians. So it is all the more familiar.
The journey was a long one but not very exhausting. The major part went in sleeping and the rest in watching the videos and watching down to the earth. Lufthansa had better services to offer as compared to the US Airways. Frankfurt Airport is no doubt one of the modern wonders, considering its expanse and the frequency with which International flights take off from or land here. Contrary to my belief there were no “air-hostesses” in both the flights but rather Flight Attendants who were not all female and not all very young! The food was satisfying though. The guy sitting beside me in Lufthansa ordered a Scotch and I did not know that they offered it for free. So, in the US Airways flight I decided to order it myself. The attendant happily brought it, only that this time he asked me for $5 as the cost of it! (He eventually forgot to take it from me though!)
The professor had sent some of his graduate students to pick me up at the airport. They took me to my apartment, which is indeed a wonderful place to live in. It is centrally air-conditioned, has a refrigerator, microwave, kitchen with quite an excessive number of utensils, a TV, radio, telephone and internet connection. And as of now, there is no one to share the place with me. So, I am living there kingsize!
The apartments here have a peculiar problem though. They get locked automatically on bolting from outside. My room got locked yesterday this way with my keys inside! My all stuff were lying inside and I couldn’t figure out what to do. Luckily (for me 
), there was a fire alarm in the floor above which brought in some police personnel to whom I accounted my foolishness. The people here are quite helpful though. They called up the required department and within a short while, the lady who takes care of the residential facilities came up with the spare keys.
So far, I haven’t had to cook myself with the Indian graduate students and my Professor taking care of my lunch and dinner. Hopefully, I’ll get to do, or rather need to do some cooking tonight.
