I have made it to the Netherlands!! I arrived on Friday the 20th at around 7am local time. After the many many hours of traveling .....(Starting on Thursday morning about 1:50 am Three hours to LA by car.... five hours by plane to Washington DC ... and then Six hours by plane to Amsterdam) We then took a train from Amsterdam to Zwolle (about an hour and 20 min ride) were I met up with my host family and traveled to their home. I proceeded to sleep for six hours to catch up on sleep that I had missed. Today I met up with the rest of the group and we had a walking tour of the main part of the city. We then had a drink in the pub and biked home although it took Bev, Emily and I a bit longer to get home than it should have . We live about a five min bike ride from where we were but Bev and Emily had a difficult time remembering/finding where they had left their bikes so we wondered around trying to find their bikes and when we finally found their bikes we then had to try and find our way home (in the rain, in the dark, on bikes) after just a few misdirections we finally found our way back to our house. We have it easy there are some students who have a 20-30 min bike ride to school each day and we have a five min bike ride.