I'll fly out of Omaha on August 26th and arrive bright and early on the morning of the 27th in Düsseldorf. From Düsseldorf I'll head 37 kilometers northwest to Essen to see Vilppu (Finland), who is working at the university there for the summer, and hopefully Francois (France). Francois came to Dortmund to study abroad in the fall of 2007 (the same time I did) and liked it so much he never left. It's really not all that bad, Fran graduated at the end of the year and got an engineering job in Dortmund. Shortly, he'll be moving to the United States (Virgina, I think?) to work for a firm here for a few years so I'm hoping I catch him while he's still in Dortmund.
After my mini-Dortmunder reunion I was supposed to go to Frankfurt to see Julain, the orphaned German exchange student that I found cold and alone on Wesleyan's campus last fall (by orphaned I mean he didn't have an I-Pal/campus guide and I "adopted" him. See the original post.) Unfortunately, Julian will be knee deep in exams so I probably won't see him until October at the earliest. On the brighter side, it'll give me more time to visit with Marcel, "my German son" who studied abroad at Wesleyan this past school year and studied at the same university that I did when I was in Germany the first time around.
Next on the agenda is a four day conference in Köln from September 7th - 10th. After that lets out I'll get on a train and head across the country to Berlin, my soon to be home.
Speaking of my future home, dwelling... box... I'm hoping I can find something as nice as this lovely piece of real estate that I found in the Portland, Oregon area:
I think my roommate and I will have to take turns being home though...
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