Well, here I am. Frankfurt (technically, the city is named Frankfurt am Main, to distinguish it from the other, much smaller Frankfurt in northeast Germany).
I arrived on Monday morning after an overnight flight, and managed to stay up most of the day by getting wrapped up in the new Harry Potter book. So, now I'm pretty much in the right time zone, though still feeling a bit groggy.
I'm renting a flat from one of the German fellows (he is spending the next two months in Atlanta and New York) in a nice neighborhood called Nordend, where the century-old buildings are painted peaceful shades of beige, pink and yellow. It's a bit lonely not having roommates for the first time in years.
As I walked to the subway station today, an old lady in a wheelchair was slowly rolling herself backward along the sidewalk, singing loudly and cheerfully in German. A strange sight, but it made me smile.
Now I'm at my desk at Reuters, where I'll be spending the next two months. I don't know enough to be very useful yet, unfortunately -- I hope that will change by the end of my time here.
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