This is about the year I'll spend in Berlin, Summer 2006 to Summer 2007, researching my dissertation on German history. I am a 28-year-old graduate student from the East Coast of the U.S. I'm 5 feet 3 and a quarter inches tall and I speak German poorly.
This is basically it so far: Am not even in Berlin yet, and cannot read German. Well, not fast anyway. And have no money with which to go to Germany. This past fall, I wrote grant proposals to get some dough for next year--waiting to hear in the next few months whether I'll get the cash, or have to rely on my graduate program to fund me. What can you say: Arg.
And, supposedly this post is lame. Lame!
