Category: Going Continental!

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This is an enraptured city. 🙂 I have only walked around a bit so far for exercise in the midst of the marathon of final paper writing and grading of the past few days; but I am looking forward to enjoying it and hopefully meeting loads of interpreters here. 🙂… Read more...

One thing about being in Europe ~ folks have been amazingly kind. I was warned by a few different people that the French, in particular, would give bad directions and otherwise be unhelpful or even try to “mess” with anglophiles. Not so! I had to deal with some technical stress immediately upon arrival in Strasbourg (my US-Western Europe electricity adaptor … Read more...

I wonder if there is an Hungarian equivalent? I left CEU last night in a downpour. As I turned out of the main entrance the Basilica rose surreal. All shades of grey in the evening dusk, with the slightest twinge of sepia from the rain. It was stunning. An aesthetic moment. 🙂 I was drenched in less than three minutes, … Read more...

Who’s over 40?!!! The crew from CEU spent varying amounts of social time with us on Friday, dependent upon previous obligations and however much stress they were feeling due to their theses being due in three weeks. (We “UMasser’s” are still in awe of the amount of work they churn out during their one year Master’s Program.)… Read more...

Matthias taught me this “most important phrase to know in German” while I was on the first train from Berlin to Strasbourg. He lives in Mannheim, so I’m looking forward to catching up with him again later this summer. I felt fortunate to meet someone who knew English, as my conversation with the wanting-to-be-chatty cab driver who took me from … Read more...

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In roughly 15 hours I’ll be in route to Berlin. Not that I stay there very long (yet)…unless, as Briankle suspects, I can’t find my way to the train station!
In the past few days I have actually felt excited – and at the end of this allnighter I do think I’ll be “ready”. In some respects it’s reminiscent of … Read more...