Year in Germany

Tuesday this past week was the 13th, and that’s the day we landed in Frankfurt and started our German journey. In a little more than a week I’ll be all but done with this semester. I have some projects I’m finishing up, last assignments, and then I have presentations on my projects and one exam. It’s been a roller-coaster semester with some of my projects, but all in all it has been very fun and rewarding. I’m going to miss it here.

Since we got here Leah was born, we gained residency, found a car, traveled to The Netherlands, Dinan in France, Austria, Oberammergau, had a number of visitors, built the attic as our apartment, established many friends at school and church, (nearly) finished two long semesters, among many, many other things of significance. Now we have to pick it all up and repeat some of it as we get ready to go to France in less than a month. I’m sure we’ll have a great time there and meet more wonderful people, but I’m going to miss the people here.

On another note, we were happy to welcome Stella and Curt this past week. They are visiting for a few weeks and we went to our favorite German restaurant in Dellfeld. Then everyone piled into two cars on Friday and drove off into the night. They are headed to their yearly vacation at St. Tropez on the French Riviera. I was supposed to go for the first week, but things got complicated with the cars and after we worked our our budget, it just didn’t make monetary or academic sense for me to go. I could get a lot done here in the meantime and finish off my semester without any distractions (even though I often welcome a distraction or two in the middle of intense study). They’ve only been gone for a little more than a day, and I miss them terribly. I was able to get a lot done yesterday anyway.

Here are some pictures. One is of Leah at the Dellfeld restaurant, one is Elsa getting creative with Play-Doh and one is the view out of our southern window after some rain.