Spoiled American

These pictures are the view from my window. The look deceptively sunny and warm especially with the doors open across the way.

It is FREEZING outside, actual temperature -4. Weather.com predicted mostly sunny and 39, I have lost all faith in that website. This morning was not a good morning. I was supposed to have my French class at 9am. I went to the building I went to the classroom...no one was there I checked the list of classes in the hall and I was supposedly in the right place. Then I couldn't find anyone to ask for help because my classes aren't on the main campus they are in a little building with no front desk. So I left after 45 minutes of waiting. I decided to go and see where the train is to the airport so I can go pick Alex up tonight. Well I guess I misinterpreted the map. There is a little picture that says navette aeroport Strasbourg by a station and I looked it up online and basically you go to this station hop on a train and go to the airport. I went to the station which was very sketchy and at the end of one of the train lines and wandered around in the freezing cold for another 45 minutes looking for this phantom train I asked a guy at the ticket window and he said just wait by the buses. After freezing my buns off I went back downtown and had to go to the city center to get a map of the bus lines there I was told all I had to do was go to the central train station and catch a bus to the airport.
By the time I made it back home my hands were so cold I could barely open the downstairs door and my neighbor (miniskirt lady) let me in, I am beginning to like her :) When I got upstairs I talked to Raza (the Iranian Prussian painter) who laughed at my mishaps and made me a wonderful cup of tea which I don't generally like but in this instance it tasted sooo good.
In Iowa when it's cold, it's awful but I bundle up and have my brother Josh or my sweet boyfriend Alex go warm the car up (depending on where I am) then I take my car park and run to the warm building. Here when it's cold there is no warming up of the car there exists the jog to the tram or bus station and walking. I am so spoiled. I think that I have a lot of adjusting to do. It is no wonder why all the people I see are so tiny.