I am settled in in Berlin, now, minus my luggage. Doesn't matter. I am here and living in the most centrally-located pad you can imagine in Mitte. In the few days that I have been here, I am finally through with my jet lag and am super-productive again, work-wise. I have to head out to the shops now to buy Brot for breakfast. More later. There are already many stories. Mark just came in and asked me to head out. I intended to blog now, but I will post this and come back a little later. Send along your good thoughts for me to recover my two green canvas Filson duffel bags, the only things left of my estate. Ciao for niao.

Since I have been taking classes at the Washington, DC, Goethe-Institut, I have been exploring lots of online resources. I have been making promises to my class that I would collect all of these resources in one place -- and here I am.

I hope to be able to actually learn german. I am collecting this book based only on learning German as an English-speaker -- specifically an American. English is English and German is German; however, I shall not be nationalistic.