Well, I am off to Berlin.  I've got an early morning flight.  I should be in Germany by 9am and in the city center proper by 11am! Yeah.

The Fulbright commission in Sofia is sending me to the conference.  I am looking forward to it.  In part it's celebrating the 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.  Wowa.  It seems like it must have been longer ago than that but it's not.  I  didn't really get what it meant then but after living here for seven months it's become real to me in ways I never could have imagined as a child watching the wall be torn down on television a world away.

So what does this mean for me? Well, I get to spend five days in Berlin and you may or may not get to read about it.  I am not sure how much time I'll have to post from the conference.  I plan to see as much of Berlin as I can and to eat as many doener kebabs and currywursts as possible while washing these down with copious amounts of German beer.

And what does this mean for you? Well, I hope to have time to document my adventures on my blog but we'll see.  It may just have to wait.