FInally in Germany!

We started our expedition on thursday. At 6:00 am we drove from the dorms to Niagara airport and flew to JFK. Once we landed we drove to Newark, met up with the women's team, got on the longest seven hour red eye flight that the airline had to offer, and flew to Berlin.

I would imagine the people at the Berlin airport thought the inevitable zombie invasion had made it's way to Germany. Even though most of us slept for quite a bit of the flight, we were still very..... Zombie-esque. For lack of a better word.

After going through security and baggage claim, we were herded into yet another vehicle and driven to the boat house where we are staying. It's an older boat house but it's extremely nice. It's well kept, and has a dormitory in the upstairs portion. It's what you would expect to see at any American college rowing facility, minus the eleven types of beer that they have on tap.

Our practice schedule has been pretty crazy so far. Yesterday we practiced twice: the first one was eight to ten in the morning and the second was from four to six. Today however, we went from eight to ten, and then eleven to twelve fifteen with an hour long run at six in the evening.

The first day of rowing here was just like the first day of rowing in Buffalo. The set was essentially a unicorn that a couple of people supposedly found, but everyone knew they were lying.

Today was a little bit better, we just need to make some more changes in technique before we race the German team.

Nap time.