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Jetway

Pardon the tardiness of this post. Yesterday, I flew back to the US, Parent City* to be exact. It was a looooong trip and I had no energy left with which to blog.

The trip itself was fairly uneventful. I flew from Berlin to Frankfurt, then to Philadelphia, then here. My first flight was delayed and security checks for international flights into the US have become more complex since the last time I was out of the country, so I had to make the fastest Duty Free shopping trip ever. It was a required stop, though, as I probably would've had to sleep on the streets if I'd come back without chocolate!

The chocolate and I made it back in one piece and quite tired. Sleep time!


*Euphemism

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The airport is fairly quiet at 4:30a. It took a while to get through security because there was only one lane open and the people in front of me (seriously, the two people directly in front of me) both had issues with getting through. (Issues such as not reading the instruction signs though, to be fair, the person two in front of me had a non-American passport, so that might have partially been a language issue.)

My flight this morning is interesting. I technically have one flight, but there is a stopover in Random Hub Town. I'm not sure where my co-waiters are going, as a result. Well, except for the girl with a European laptop plug -- I'm guessing that she'll be on the plane to Frankfurt, too.

Plans for today's flights include: reading my photographed guidebook for Bonn, reviewing all of my vocab from the intensive German class I took this summer, and starting on the first Harry Potter book auf Deutsch.

In other news, I am a champion light packer -- when I checked my single, small bag, I noticed that I was carrying less than people taking domestic flights. Said bag isn't near full, either, and also not extended. Score!