Mornin, states.

Currently sitting in the ICE from Regensburg to Passau, writing the Berlin trip report. (It's coming, I promise!! Just a bit difficult to find time since I'm still unterwegs.) Thankfully, we booked 8 seats together and 2 separate, so I'm next to my prof enjoying a bit of a break from the others' chaos. It's been... a lot. I like most of them as individuals, but when 10 non-native German speakers spend all their waking hours together, it not only becomes annoying, but also actively harms my language skills. (We become an echo chamber of grammatical errors and broken German.) And we're on the road for almost another 3 weeks. (Anyone in Austria, Berlin, or Leipzig, shoot me a message if you wanna meet up!) So I'll be doing my best to split off from the group as much as possible :) Fortunately my prof is very understanding, so it should be better from here on.

On a larger timescale, I don't want to go back. Or, at least, if I have to go back, I want to come back to Germany after graduation. That is, however, made difficult by the fact that I'm also less and less interested in anything resembling a stable job, and definitely anything resembling sponsorship for a work visa. So we'll see where that goes.