Well, this is it.  The very last post from Germany.  It has been not quite two years, and I’m flying home tomorrow for good.  And I don’t even have time to write a properly reflectful blog post.  It’s currently almost 1 am and I’m using my friend’s computer because I turned my apartment back over to my landlord and returned all my borrowed furniture this afternoon.  Tomorrow I catch a train at 10 am from Siegburg and a flight from Frankfurt to Chicago at 12:30ish.  After much tussle and heartache, I finally got everything packed.  I’m going to have to check a third suitcase and my parents will be receiving a large box via post, but I managed to fit in almost everything in the end.  And everything else has been distributed among my friends.  My intention is that Genauslanders will end with Germany, but there may still be a few more posts over the next few weeks about life after Germany and catching up on a lot of the pictures and travel I’ve been doing lately but haven’t had time to blog about.  My friends here have been amazing and showered me with amazing and beautiful and thoughtful good-bye presents (which didn’t exactly make packing easier, but I still appreciate them).  It’s very, very hard to leave, but at least I’ve been so busy and stressed about everything lately that I’m ready to leave, just to be done with it all.  As I type this, I can hear the raindrops falling on the leaves in the dark outside the open window.  Thank you to Germany, to my boss and my co-workers and my friends.  I treasure you all.  Alles Gute.  Tschüss!

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