After seven months here, I leave Berlin tomorrow. I'm crying. It's been a wonderful experience. I've met so many great people here and really have fallen in love with this city.
I'm torn because I also really miss the U.S. and am looking forward to going back home. But both places feel like home. I wish I could have stayed here longer.
While I understand how you feel, I think you should also feel great in that you did this! That's living life! I'm jealous - Really. Oh, and welcome back!
my family spent 5 months in central america then europe... yes we missed home... but man we missed the culture... it was hard coming back... and even worse that the first place we had to go was the social security office to get a replacment SS card because I was robbed while in europe... nothing better then being reminded how crappy americans can be then going to sit in the welfare... er SS office for a few hrs waiting with the finest citizens of this great nation...
Congrats on an awesome experience............you're threads and posts have inspired me to start brewing on my own for enjoyment.
Have a beginners kit and will be doing my first batch in a few weeks.
well, you now have great contacts for the next time you go back
coming home is going to be a shock... just be kind to us poor ugly americans who have never been to berlin.
The title of this thread sounds like the title to a book or movie
mad_machine wrote: coming home is going to be a shock... just be kind to us poor ugly americans who have never been to berlin.
Going to DC earlier this month sure was. 
I'm thinking that going back to NorCal will be a bit less of a culture shock. Probably will not have a crazy guy ranting next to the baggage carousel.
The title of this thread sounds like the title to a book or movie
My day yesterday felt like it could have been something out of a movie. Hang out with a friend, drinks in a biergarten, wander over and duck into a cafe just in time to avoid rain, finish the meal just in time for the rain to stop, wander back and dance tango with dance floor almost all to ourselves, wander to the train station and discover a string quartet playing on the landing for the stairs (they where halfway through Pachelbel's Canon when we arrived), listen and dance more tango on the landing in the train station, tearful farewell and waving goodbye through the windows when we have to board metro trains heading opposite directions. Beautiful day.
Stone announced that they have picked Berlin as the location they want to open a European brewery. I really really really hope they do. I would love to live here and work for Stone.
bravenrace wrote: While I understand how you feel, I think you should also feel great in that you did this! That's living life! I'm jealous - Really. Oh, and welcome back!
Oh, I do. I do. It's been wonderful and I've made some great friends. Just an incredible experience.
I'm making plans to find a way to come back and visit again.
Just be sure and don't do any of that dancing on the train platforms here in the states. You could get locked up for those kinds of shenanigans.
Welcome back.
Lots of friends kept asking me tonight:
"Do you really have to leave?"
"Yes. Unfortunately."
"But why? Why don't you just stay here?"
"Because I have work and a fiancee."
"Okay. Those are good reasons."
Oh yes. Proposed to the girlfriend in Bruges when she came out to visit. Figure things will happen in about a year after I finish my internship, get a permanent position, and settle somewhere.
Washington or Oregon, so I can come down to sample all of your hard work!
Beer Baron wrote: Oh yes. Proposed to the girlfriend in Bruges when she came out to visit.
Bruges is a E36 M3hole.
Beer Baron wrote: Proposed to the girlfriend in Bruges when she came out to visit.
HIGH BERKELEYING FIVE!
Were they filmin' midgets?
JohnInKansas wrote: HIGH BERKELEYING FIVE! Were they filmin' midgets?
No, it was raining.
Bruges isn't a E36 M3hole. Now Brussels, that was a E36 M3hole.
Congrats on everything man. You're living the dream. Found a career path you're passionate about and took the plunge to make it work. Proposed to your girl and are going to start a new family and career all at the same time. What an exciting and emotional time for you. I wish you all the best man! Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations!!!
Beer Baron wrote: Oh yes. Proposed to the girlfriend in Bruges when she came out to visit.
Nice.
(I officially have no comment on Bruges, it may be paradise for all I know. I was looking for Colin saying "In F*ing Bruges?" but couldn't find it.)
Liege is a sh1thole.
Bruges on the other hand is awesome.
I could go there and have some waterzooi and a couple of Zots right now...
Yeah Bruges was the one city on our trip we spent two full days in. Quite nice. I think I liked Ghent the best. Not quite as picturesque as Bruges, but less touristy and more things to do. More expensive to stay in than Bruges, but we arrived when they were having some big festival, so hotel prices were way up.
You are bringing beer to the challenge right ?
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