Here I am in Germany. Berlin is pretty rad. Much huger than I expected. Lots of friendly foreigners (3 out of 4 people I’ve met so far, on average, are not German), a good transport system, cheap apartments with high ceilings, lovely tall windows. My technology/society conference is neat and I’ve met some really cool people. There’s even a baby there, and we have of course totally bonded. She grabs my nose. I let her.
I’m really tired, so I’ll write more later. But yes, I have confirmed that I could live here, that the plan is still to move to Europe. Somewhere warmer than Berlin would be preferable, but it’s cool here. Slowly, my German is coming back. I ordered breakfast today and asked for directions and not once did people switch to English to answer me. Woohoo! Incognito, por fin.
Still wonder why I chose Berlin in January rather than say, oh, Lima. But we do what we can. The world continually shrinks, or at least it feels that way to me. I really love it.