i made it!

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i am sooooooooooooooooooooooooo happy to be here.  of course very excited to see him!  ravensburg is really very cute (i feel like i moved to disneyland - gabled roofs and cobblestone streets ... the whole bit).  his friends are very nice (all around my age) and have welcomed me so warmly (not what i expected - germans are kinda reserved.  but none of them are german: there's the guy from nepal with his belgian girlfriend and the irish lad with the girl from god knows where).  hearing and seeing germans everywhere is going to take some getting used to.  luckily his friends don't speak german at all, which is great cause it appears that every time i open my mouth something english comes out until i concentrate on speaking german.  

it's 4:30am right now and i am wide awake (surprising since i hardly slept on the plane.  although i reserved a window seat i ended up in an aisle seat right next to the bathroom with people practically standing on my feet all night and several non-stop-screaming children behind me) ... my internal clock is all screwed up.  but who cares?  it's not like i have to get up to go to work any time soon.

no phone yet, or shoes, for that matter, since delta (i don't know how you can out up with them david) managed to leave one of my suitcases in san francisco ... and that after i had to pay $150 for bringing what they call "excess baggage" but i refer to as "my life". 

but it's all good,  i'm on vacation and refuse to get stressed out over such trivialities.

so yeah, it's surreal being here but all in all i am loving it!  

=  ) st

p.s. there's a SUBWAY (yeah, the crappy sandwich kind) in the historic town square!  globalization truly is a bitch!

p.p.s. did i mention that i can see the alps from here?  ... surreal!

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