Hello and welcome to our new Blog members! I sent out the invitations today to all 13 of the students who are planning on coming with us this summer as well as Drs. Musser and Herman Jennie Barr (TAMU Study Abroad) and Willem Spanninga and Caro Janda (AIB, Duesseldorf). I've already gotten a couple of confirmatory postings (thank you!) so the system seems to be working as promised by Blogger. We've had the occasional glitch in which an invitee has been unable to sign up but it looks like we can get this all worked out before the summer.
Next Tuesday will be our final student pre-trip orientation (among other things I'll be handing out the camcorders!) and then we chill out until July 10 or so and meet in Duesseldorf on July 11 for the start of the program. Caro (CJ) and I have been corresponding by e-mail working out the final itinerary and she's already formalized arrangements for some of the very best things we wish to retain from last summer. For example, we'll be touring Nuremberg with our Stadtfuehrerin from last summer, Frau Schmitz-Pikulicki. Frau Dr. med. Zarmina Penner will be lecturing to us again on German and EU health care systems and Herr Professor Ralf Zinnikus will be lecturing on modern German history during week one of our program. It looks like Herr Marc Stegherr will be available to guide us through Dachau and he did a superb job last year. CJ has also arranged for us to visit the animal health division at Bayer--which was not so easy to arrange--and this is excellent. Thank you CJ! Many other things, of course, are planned and we're now working on finalizing the plan for our trip to Berlin. I have passed along our students' housing/roomate requests and Frau Evi Pilartz of the AIB is taking care of this for us (herzlichen Dank!).
That's it for now. I await the rest of the confirmatory postings from our students and I trust the overall level of pre-trip excitement is on the rise!
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