Back in good old Germany

Exec summary for busy people: flight with Singapore was marvellous, and after a couple of suppers and a visit to a normal grocery market, I cannot stress more how convenient it is to have healthy food available everywhere without Whole Food-prices.

So, if you want any advise on how not to plan the end of your semester: Do not finish your last exam on Tuesday afternoon and plan to leave the next day! I do not know why I keep telling myself that moving is easy. Even though I turned my packing into a “Packing party” (basically, I packed and four Blakeley mates sat down with a beer, cheering), I realized that I do have a lot of stuff, I was really tired, sick and exhausted. Well, the flight was booked. Nobody urged me to go out that night, but when I had sealed the last box, a sudden feeling of sadness overcame me. And the best therapy against that feeling is a small pub in Central Square, a Bluegrass band and a lot of Fletchies :-).

To cut it short: boxes are now very well taken care of, bus to New York, bus to JFK, flight to Frankfurt all on time (that is a first). And now I am back. And exactly as weird as the first days in Medford felt, so do the first days here. I am a little restless, I miss the Social List suggesting crazy things to do and I really cannot stand the silence that surrounds me here. However, I do love the food! I started laughing hysterically in the grocery store the other day when I saw radish and celery for 50cents. And then, I really do not know what that stuff is that is sold as cow milk in the US, but it tastes not at all like the cow milk we have here!