Diary

In the morning around 9:40am we reached St. Louis.🎉🎊 Finally. Shawn the friend of my parents picked us up. We didn’t even have to wait. We got to his house and ate a bit for breakfast. He is educated and is not at all a typical american citizen. Shawns house Today we would go the botanical garden in St. Louis. At noon he drove us on the broad streets through the city to the botanical garden. We passed lost of Universities, hospitals and a really big park (second biggest in the US). ...

On the 6th of august we left the airport in Frankfurt and thought we would arrive in St. Louis on the 6.8 with just one stop in Atlanta. It came worse. The last post explains why we spent a day in Atlanta. The post hinted to a positive ending and that we would at last arrive in St. Louis. This did not happen. Let me explain how and why it did not happen. ...

Flight It starts on the 6.8.23. My sister Sarah drove us to the airport in Frankfurt at 8am. Since I had been canoeing the day before and I was awake until very late in the evening the day before, I was a bit exhausted. At the airport, my mother was recognized by a former student. She was in my mother’s German course 17 years ago (2006/2007). She remembered my mother’s last name. I used to play on the floor as a kid while she was teaching. She even came to us and got in touch again. Cordially. My mother used to utilize playing games with the students. The former student praised her teaching style. ...