GERMANY!

It's offi­cial now — I am spend­ing almost all of August in Munich, Ger­many! I leave Aug 7 and return Aug 31. Going to be lots of hard work but it's going to be a blast. This morn­ing one of our main liaisons with this project CCed me on an email he sent to some higher-ups in the com­pany with some very com­pli­men­tary praise for me by one of the Ger­man liaisons. Last week the same per­son specif­i­cally requested that I pol­ish up some of the team's doc­u­ments because he was impressed by my pre­vi­ous work. To be specif­i­cally praised by a higher-up in another com­pany is a fan­tas­tic feeling.

I'll be stay­ing the first 2 weeks at Brendon's apart­ment, but Bren­don and and Mark will only be there the first 3 days. Then they both are leav­ing for the US and I will be alone for 9 of the next 13 days. At that point Mark and his wife return and I will move to a hotel. Unbe­liev­able! I feel so lucky to be going over there even if it will be hard work and extremely long hours. It feels great just to be asked to go, being so young and inexperienced.

What a day!