11/24/11 Happy Thanksgiving

Here it is my first Thanksgiving in Germany...no family, no turkey, but still a good day anyway. Today I started volunteering at the USO. I was supposed to work both at the airport and the CASF, but thankfully (good day for that) I only spent time at the airport. The reason that it is thankful is that the only way I was going to do any time at CASF today is if they had patients who were waiting for their flight back to the states, and when I called they said they didnt need volunteers for the evening...so that means there were none (or few) soldiers/airmen waiting to leave. So it was a rather uneventful day. I went and spent my 4 hours at the airport; that was kind of nice as there was a lady waiting with her three daughters for their flight and her littlest decided that I needed to hold her (she was maybe a year old)...so needless to say, after they twisted my arm (not) I held her for a bit. Man I miss my little men so much. Oh well, Happy Thanksgiving!

Now on just a little sidenote, you know, I have figured out how you can tell when you are getting used to being somewhere...when your dreams include people with the local names. You know like in the US Georg would be George, but here it is pronounced "Gayorg." Well anyway, when I woke up yesterday morning I had to kind of giggle to myself. You see, before my alarm so rudely interupted my sleep I was in a conversation with some man (funny thing, I think it was in German, but I understood it in English...anyway) about the Christmas markets and I remember his name was Ernst (not Ernest, but Ernst)...Guess I am getting used to the place!

I also had stopped yesterday on the way to work at the Backerei and they had the cutest little bread guy...the bakeries have some really wonderful items here, and he was so cute...

With any luck I will have internet in the morning (at this point I am almost praying that they do come and get it installed, since they dont rush into it here and then they were trying to change the day on me to Monday).