I made it! Yes, thats right, the girl who got lost in Carlsbad last week, even though she's lived in San Diego her whole life, managed to make it, not just half way around the world, but across a country in which she doesn't speak the language and navigate a foreign city. Aren't you proud of me? As you may be able to tell, I have officially made it to Berlin, after a 10 hr flight from LAX to Frankfurt and a 4 hr train ride from Frankfut. The journey was, um, interesting...a lot less people speak English then you would think, and I don't speak a word of German. I managed to navigate mainly by walking up to "Service Points" in train stations and bewilderedly thrusting a piece of paper (in Frankfurt, my rail pass,
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