Friday, July 30, 2010

I got an email!

OK so I'm not yet in Germany, and thus my promise in my last post that my next post would be from Germany has not come to fruition...but I have news! Today I received an awesome email from my soon-to-be host family, and I share it here:


Hello Helen!
Thank you for your letter. Sorry, that I answer just now. But we stay in holidays and so I have not
check the mails. We are happy to have a nice guest and welcome you at Monday.

We are a little family. My husband, Volker, I, and our son Leonard. he is 17 years old. And we have a little cat.
At the evening I work (I `m a fitness trainer) and so my husband, Volker comes to the school and take you home.
See you soon. Have a nice fly!

Mit freundlichem Gruß,

Ines

So many things about the email just make me excited and happy (fitness trainer?! cat?! new little brother?! awesome German names?! ) It's so nice to finally know where I will live in a matter of days, and the family seems warm and welcoming. Woo hoo!

Also, I have made it to my former swampy stomping grounds, Washington DC. As I stayed up far too late last night and participated in far too much debauchery con Katherine in New Orleans, the day was very long. Thus, I am turning in early tonight so I will be 100% for the full day of orientation tomorrow and for meeting my congressional representative. Highlights of today included learning lots of much-needed information (turns out we will be spending two days as a group in Frankfurt upon arrival in Germany for ANOTHER orientation), meeting some really cool and diverse peeps, and asking a German man how much sausage normal German people eat. Hint: the answer is not as much as I ate when I went to Germany.

I have so much more to share already, but nope! Gotta catch some zzzzs and dream of the crazy days to to come from our nation's capitol.






1 comment:

  1. highlights: "have nice fly," and "the answer is not as much as I ate when I went." frau hels, I am excited for you.

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