The Beginning of My Journey!

So... it's Sunday night January 4th, im still packing-running out of room before I even know it, mom is hemming some pants-yes I know last minute what can I say I've got the Paghense blood in me! Haha. It winds up that I am bringing waaay too much stuff, but Naunie and I some how make it work. About 12:30am on the 5th and finally get to go to bed! Lay down and tell Naunie how much I love her and how much I am going to miss her. The doze off till 4am and wake up. About now the anxiety begins to build up more and more! I get ready and throw on some clothes- not knowing that I would be wearing them until like Wednesday morning! (Ill get to that in a second). We jump in the car and make the trip to San Diego and when we get out of the car with my bags I again realize the amount of stuff that I brought with me. OMG! Long line-get told that  "my stay was not authorized", get in new line.....next get told-"oh your flight from Chicago to Dusseldorf has been cancelled! you can leave tomorrow or fly to Chicago today, get off plane, have ticket reissued and run to next plane in hour and a half! I decided to attempt it because I wanted to get as far east as possible...then I had to put my backpack in a box and empty out a bag to make room....The first plane ride was not even that bad :) Got to sit right by the door so I high tailed it out of the plane and went to the attendant that was right outside of my gate and he did what I thought was booking me the seat to Dusseldorf. I was happy at this point, things were going as planned. Then I walk like 40 gates at Ohara Airport to the gate for Dusseldorf at Lufthansa Airline. The girl said that I was not booked, nor did I have seat because they were over booked as it was. Freaking out. I told her that I was and here was the ticket, but she told me that I was not in the system and there was nothing that she could do for me and that I needed to go to United because they were the one's that booked me. United said that it was Lufthansa's problem because they overbooked me. So back and forth...not being helped and the people are getting ruder by the minute. I am stuck in Chicago and I have no clue as to what I am supposed to do. I am already freaking out because of the whole trip and now this! After like an hour and a half of walking back and forth between United and Lufthansa, this guy was able to book me a flight to Munich to Marseille. By the way its now about 4pm and I have had not one morsel of food. So then I had to again walk to the other side of Ohara Airport and go to the Customer Service Counter to get my ticket issued. I am starving but I have to stand in another effing long line that is not really moving.  After like an eternity I get to the window and the lady was actually really nice and she let me go sit down because I was about to have a heart attack.  So I took care of all that and now I got to grab a $10 small sandwich and a drink. Ya I inhaled the sandwich to say the least. The plane ride was not bad at first but 8 and a half hours on your ass in a little seat is ridiculous! The girl next to me was German and really sweet. But I definity had a few rum and cokes...mommy's orders due to my hectic day.  The flight never seemed to end! Ugh....It was really cool to see the town of Munich from the air. The little towns looked so cool and it was definitely really cold and tons of snow on the ground! So I get off the plane and get my first European stamp in my passport!! Yeah! I walked through security and began to walk the next journey to my gate. I go to the counter and check in. And what do you know....IM NOT ON THIS FLIGHT EITHER! I mean seriously do your jobs correctly people and treat me with some respect! GURRR! But I was able to get on this plane ride, thank god! So I go and sit down and this girl ends up being a student at Euromed as well...then while talking and beginning to line up to board my plane, I realize that I do not have my laptop! I left it at the security checkpoint! So I tell the lady at the desk and she says that there is only like 15 minutes left till the plane leaves. I RAN LIKE I WAS BEING CHASED DOWN FOR MY LIFE! I got alllll the way back to the security and try to tell them "white computer! this lane!" they looked at me like I was stupid for awhile, then the guard brought me to the office where by the grace of god it was there. He asked if he could start it and I said that my face would appear on the desktop. So then I book it back to the gate on the other side of the airport and see that everyone has already made it down the huge stairwell and on to the bus...so did some more hurrying and got on to the bus. I was so exhausted because it was super cold and my lungs were not okay....got on the bus and was hot so I took off my sweater...then getting on the little ass plane I was freezing because it was starting to snow :( burrrr! then it took forever to board and I was like all the way back in the plane, sitting by the window and the guys were not small. My stuff did not really fit in the over head compartments so I had to put both under the seats. I was no nauseous the entire flight and exhausted from traveling like 24 hours.  The food was ehh and I could have had alcohol but I was already about to vomit so I decided not to. We get off the plane and the girl that is with me gets her baggage and is waiting with me for mine. I already knew that there was a slim to none chance that my stuff would actually have followed me the whole way. The lost and found attendant came out and said that there was no more bags, SHIT! So I went and placed a claim with them. Then we took a bus ride to the train station to be picked up. The ride was intense because people in France really do not abide by the rules of the road. People were cutting each other off and then someone hit the back of the van! The girl that was driving opened the door and began to scream obscenities to the other driver. It was hilarious the way she was acting. But then we grabbed some food and went to our international dorm. It was decent, nothing special.  I couldnt contact them when I arrive in the afternoon on Tuesday the 6th grrr! Then a freak of nature happens the next morning on Wednesday the 7th.....and it effing SNOWS! It has not snowed in 20 years and we got like 6 inches. So we were supposed to have orientation but since the city never sees snow, they pretty much shut it down. So me and some girls walked to the grocery store in the snow when it was coming down the hardest! What an adventure. There were people just throwing snowballs everyone, even at us!  So...seeing how it has snowed the airport is closed still! Ughh. Then Thursday rolls around and still no word on my bags! I gave my mom the bag information and she called and they said that my bags were in Frankfurt! Whoo hoo! but all day Thursday I cant get ahold of anyone at the airport so I have no clue as to where my stuff is now :( I have one pair of pants and some shirts and a jacket and just two pairs of socks! This bites! I cant believe the trouble that I have had on this trip! I pray that this is not a preview of my trip to come :( Now it 5:30am Friday morning and I have been up since 2 am because people were running around outside my door. I cant sleep. I have to be up at 8am and I am wide awake. I tired but my mind is racing at the moment so I just decided that I needed to get on the blog and post the last few days. I need to contact the travel agency because I have travel insurance and it covers delayed baggage. phew! but who knows ill probably have to show receipts for things I bought to get reimbursed. I have no luck. Some times I think why did I even do this. I hope that in the end I am happy with the decision that I have made to come out here to Europe. I just wish I was not doing this alone. I am going to try to lay down now...au revoir for now.