A Delayed Departure

The Plan was to leave a few days ago and spend time with my relatives in Berlin and Munich to get used to speaking German and see them after many years and do some big-city sightseeing, but The Plan is sometimes hard to follow, especially when I got diagnosed with mono the day before my plane was to leave. So I am delaying my departure for three weeks, and instead I am arriving in Germany on the 25th, the day my program in Freiburg is to start. Better to be sick at home than sick abroad, right? I have actually had mono for about three weeks now, so I should be mostly better by the time the program begins. For now I'm hanging out and sleeping a lot. I packed one suitcase already, so that's a lot of work out of the way, thankfully. I promise more updates when something more exciting happens to me than being able to eat solid food or finishing another chapter of The Fellowship of the Ring.