September 15, 2009: Getting Back to Normal Life

I got quite a bit of sleep last night.  I am definitely feeling a bit better today.  I have a lot of work to do at the office today to get caught back up.  I had about 6,500 emails in my inbox that I needed to clean through.  And that is just the emails that …

September 14, 2009: Traveling Back to America

I got woken up early this morning at ten till four.  I got three calls all in five minutes!  After that I was wide awake and unable to go back to sleep.  So I only got just over three hours of sleep.  Today is going to be a tough day. I tried going back to …

September 13, 2009: Last Full Day in Europe

Today is my final day in Germany.  I will leave Germany by rail first thing tomorrow morning (Monday) and travel back to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and fly back to Dublin where I will set for three hours, again, before flying back to JFK in New York. I slept in again this morning; …

September 12, 2009: Osnabruck Old Town

Today was the day that I set aside for seeing the Osnabruck Old Town – the historic district left standing after the bombings in World War II that flattened most of the city. Fortunately the Rathaus, City Hall, which is Osnabruck’s most important landmark was not hit. I slept in until very late morning.  I …

September 11, 2009: Walking to Hasbergen

After finally managing to fall asleep last night at two in the morning I miraculously slept for eleven hours not waking up until one in the afternoon!  It was awesome.  I am feeling so much better now.  Getting that sleep gave my body the strength that it needed to beat back this flu and put …