This is why German advertising interests me.

Calendar is up, but private

So, I added a link to a page with my calendar on it. Right now, my calendar is set to private, and you will be treated to a lovely blank calendar, but if you want to look at the events on it, just comment or email me (at kriscope at u dot washington dot com) with your email address. You need a google account for it to work, but they're a cinch to create.

I've added all of the tours, guest speakers, lectures, workshops, etc that Julie and Shanga (the program directors) emailed me. While we're a little overbooked right now, many of the tours look just excellent! Julie sent me a reply to my concerns, saying they plan on being flexible around interviews and whatever else we need to accomplish, but I don't plan on missing much of it.

The schedule is finally ready!

Hooray! We have the last of our hostel reservations!

So, here is the itinerary:

Dates, Location, What I'm doing
7-7 to 8-6	Yakima	I've just been chilling, ever since my %^&$ing job laid me off yesterday. I have to clean up my end-of-the-school-year mess, and pack for Europe and Seattle, but otherwise I'm just watering the plants and napping all day. I'm getting to know cable programming fairly well again.
8-6 to 8-7	Seattle	I believe my parents are giving me a ride over to Seattle, and I'm spending the night at Mary Grace's family's house, until we wake up at an unholy hour to go to the airport.
8/7 to 8/8	The Sky	MG and I fly from SeaTac to Philly International to Munich.
8/8 to 8/9	Munich/München	We're essentially just spending the night there...I don't know what we'll do besides recover.
8/9 to 8/10	Frankfurt	This is one of Mary Grace's destinations. There is a church about 45 minutes away from town that she wanted to go to. I think she said it was B'hai, one of the few churches of that religion left. I'm guessing it will be very interesting.
8/10 to 8/12	Lucerne/Luzern	I wanted to visit the Alps, and Switzerland sounded interesting. Luzern is a nice tourist city there, by a lake in/near the mountains.
8/12 to 8/16	Naples/Napoli	You would not believe how difficult it is to book a hotel on the Mediterranean in August! We finally got a hostel in Naples for a reasonable price. It's close to the waterfront (by which I think it means docks), but at the very least we can take city buses to the beach.
8/16 to 8/22	Rome/Roma	This is for both Mary Grace and myself. There are so many things to see, I don't even know what to do! Mary Grace, because she is a practicing Catholic, wants to go to Mass there, of course. I have a few other places on my list, but we'll see.
8/22	Venice/Venezia	We are not spending much time in Venice, but we plan on taking a fairly early train from Rome, stopping briefly to see the canals and gondolas, and then take a late train to Berlin.
8/22 to 9/20	Berlin	This is where I get serious, and actually do research and earn credits and such. My program is taught by UW staff, but our classroom is at Humboldt-Universität. Many of our lectures will be with Humboldt staff, as well as our own Julie and Shanga, and we have an HU grad student as our TA. I'm sharing an apartment with Mary Grace, in the same building as the other UW students. Both HU and our apartment building are in the city center of Berlin.
9/20-9/22	Munich/München	We fly out of Munich — after a couple days at Oktoberfest.
8/22	The Sky	MG and I fly from Munich, to Philly, and back to SeaTac. Because we're flying West, we gain time instead of losing it, and if you don't look at the timezones, the trip appears to take 9 hours. If only.
9/22	Seattle	I'm moving right into my room for the year, without going back to Yakima. Classes start 9/24, so I'll have one day to get over jetlag and Oktoberfest.