Well, the gods smiled on us and we received our bag yesterday morning… The only thing is out of our two suits only one is wearable. The other had been chewed up by Floridian “silver-fish”, little bugs that ravenously eat fabric… Anyway, a suit with holes in it is not going to work here in Germany, especially at meetings with suited Romanians, Poles, South Africans, French, Australians, Brits, and Russians. So to avoid international embarrassment I’ll go American business-casual…

Surprisingly though the Germans are very laid-back about getting started in the morning, here it is almost 10am and we haven’t started yet, people are kind of strolling in… and another stereotype broken… the sun came out for a few minutes this morning!