Final days in Deutschland

February 2007

On February 10 I rose early and took the train to Karlsruhe airport to pick up Jo and Daniela, my English friends from when I was in Russia, who were visiting for the weekend. After they napped at my place we went into Freiburg and I showed them around, eating Schnitzel and seeing the sights before returning around 8pm. I had to make final preparations for my farewell party. The party was nice and a good chance to say goodbye to quite a few of the friends I'd made there.
The next day the weather was poor and we spent the whole day first in a cafe, then in a restaurant, just talking. After spending a number of hours in the city we went home and continued to talk until 5:30 am when the first bus came and Jo and Daniela had to leave.

The rest of the week I spent going to Uni in amongst packing and making arrangements to leave. On my last night my housemates wanted to farewell me and we had a few drinks together, sang songs and they game me gifts. I decided not to go to bed yet again as I had to rise very early and a few of them then decided to stay up with me and take me to the station. We said our sad goodbyes on the platform and I boarded the train. The lack of sleep helped me to sleep on the plane - something I usually have a lot of difficulty doing - during the 9 hour flight.