The letters won't go out until the end of September, but today I got confirmation from the head of Academic Programs Abroad that I had been selected for the Spring 2008 exchange in Bonn!

*shakes her Bonn-Bonn*

And I have another six months before I depart to think up plenty more plays on the name of that beautiful Rhineland city.

We traveled by train to Vienna on a Saturday. Compartments had been reserved in advance for our group, though we spilled over into a couple of the vacant ones with all of our luggage (don’t look at me; I traveled quite sensibly and was able to manage my things without assistance…er, except when it came to getting things down from overhead bins. In ( Read more... )