Sorry for the hiatus! Up and running.

Hellooooo anyone and everyone reading! It's Katie! And it's still about 6am where you are! I like exclamation points!!!!!!!!!

Lots to update you on. So much, in fact, that upon reading, you will be overwhelmed with the amount of AWESOME information, your brain will explode and your eyes will roll back in your head. That's not what we want from our readers...we like the live ones! SO--I'll give you a couple teasers and elaborate as this week continues:


-Jack has completed his second full week of the program at VLB-Berlin and is totally and completely into it. He comes home talking about malt and barley and chemical processes and blah blah blah...I am REALLY proud of him. *Side note: "blah blah blah" is the way it's going to stay for me. From here on out, if you have any questions about beer and brewing, you cannot and will not direct them towards me. So there!

-I have a friend! Hooooooorah! She's from the states and her name is Monica and we get along really well and I am in 3rd grade again. "Moooommmm, I made a new friend today! Sheeeee's so cooooooooool!"

-Slowly but surely, I am figuring out how to stay here. "What? Stay there?" you might ask. Bad news: job prospects are slim to none. I'm not an engineer and I am in NO way fluent auf Deutsch. At least, not yet...

-I don't really like the Germans. Is there really more to say?


-Oh, oh, *NEW* mini-posts on why America is better (or in the RAREST of cases, what we can learn from the Germans).

As you can see, lots to know, lots to read. And on this end, lots to write, much concentration needed, ohh, pretty birdy outside....WAIT! Okay, I'm back. What can I say? Life comes in and consumes you. I just want to make sure that you stay a part of it...so I can stay a part of home, too. I love EVERYONE!