With any new experience, it may take time to register the events occurring. You can be in the moment and not realize how amazing the moment you’re in may be. That is where i found myself until today. This trip has been just talking and planning for so long, and in that process I forgot that one day it would be an action. That one day I’d actually be here in Germany.
Yesterday, if you had asked me what I felt about Germany, I would have told you I felt like I was in America. It wasn’t until going to a German school and seeing students, going to a German restaurant and having half the staff come and help explain our requests to the server, getting lost in a maze of underground trains and not making it to my destination that it hit me. The fact that I am actually here in Germany. No, these may not be particularly meaningful moments, but they helped show me that I am in a new place. Though there is much excitement to be in a new place and explore this new world, there is a certain amount of respect that I have to give to this new and unknown place.
Tonight there will be more exploring to be done. More on that later.
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