Public Transportation

Today was probably the longest days I've had in a very, very long time.

A week or two ago, my English teacher had told us that on Monday, today, we were going to meet up at a pub in the next town over and have a quiz night. It seemed odd at the moment, but I'm assuming class meetings happen a lot outside of school. Nevertheless, I figured that it would be really fun and I was hoping the quiz was in English (which is was!).

Before this exciting new adventure (and I mean adventure) took part, I needed to get through 9 "hours" of school before I could follow through with any plans. As History, Biology, and Music went by (2 hours each plus 3 free hours) I was ready for my plans. First, I was to meet a friend who is also from America on this same program at the train station in order to get to the next town over. He's not technically in my English class, or goes to the same school, but it was an informal class meeting and he wanted to go. So we met at the train, with me almost missing my bus in order to get there, and not to mention waiting an hour or so for him to be done with school, and traveled to the next city over. We walked around for a while and decided we should try and find the place where I was supposed to meet my classmates in a couple of hours, just in case something went wrong and we couldn't find it. We had to walk quite a ways, but after asking for directions, we finally found our way. We decided staying there was best, as it wasn't really near any other places with food, and I was getting pretty hungry. So we grabbed food there, played a game of chess, a couple games of tic tac toe, and just hung out for a while. After about 9 or so my classmates and teacher came and the quiz night began. It was over star wars, brain puzzles, sex toys (whether the picture on the screen looked like one or not- I didn't pick the subject), and a couple other topics. There were a total of 25 questions, and my team tied for third place, in which I had to arm wrestle another lady in order to win. I won! Then after that, we had to run in order to catch the bus to go back to the train station. We made it barely in time, and then barely in time for the train. The next part is the part that made the whole day and evening seem very very long.

First off, let me tell you that I had a plan to go home. I was to go on the train to the station that I had met my friend, then go with my friends to a bus stop semi-nearby and from there go home on a ruf-taxi, which is free because I have a max-ticket, which is a bus pass that works on a lot of the buses that surround me. So there was a little confusion in which train to go on. My friend picked out a train that he seemed pretty sure of, and I had lost the group of people that I was also with, but I figured that they were just on a different car. However, not too long after our train had left we realized our mistake. At the same time that I got a call from one of the girls that I had been with before we got on the train, my friend that I was with made an upset-looking face along with an "uh oh". We were on the wrong train. Not a problem, right? Get out on the next stop, take a train back to where we just left from, then take another train back to the other station that we planned to go to. Good theory. No ruf-taxi after I think 11:30, and the next train that was coming was due for after that time. Great. I talked with my friends for a long time over the phone, which proved to be a little bit of a challenge as our languages are different, and decided the best plan to get home, which ended up to be way too late for my liking.

So, I am now home.

I had to figure out the public transportation system on my own at some point and time right?