Well, it’s been a long 24 plus hours since we left Pittsburgh to head to Berlin. The students will give all the details, but lightning struck our plane (which had just landed) and the repairs and review took two hours. We missed our connecting flight in Paris, maneuvered around an immense Charles DeGaulle airport and arrived here But seven of the students’ luggage did not.
We’ve been so fortunate on these trips We slid into Ireland in the midst of Icelandic volcano eruptions and had on-time flights with all other trips. As sports fans know, we were due ….. We’ll survive.
The late arrival cut down our time today for a city tour and visit through the Topographie of Terrors. We’ll catch up on this through our time here. But it is quite a city. Different from other European cities we’ve visited because World War II devastated Berlin and other beautiful German cities. No real old town here; much had to be rebuilt. What was spared is beautiful, and we’ll hear more about it this week. We start the media visits tomorrow with a lecture at Freie University, which was established when Germany was split under the four Allies’ control after World War II. I am thrilled to watch this come to life with 11 great students. Keep watch for their posts …..
And now it’s really time to say goodnight. Don’t look too closely for errors here. This sleep-deprived professor and copy editor surely made some.
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