Allo, Guten Tag!

(Hmm..that pretty much sums up all the German I managed to soak in while I was there…)

I am finally back from two weeks of intense and crazy traveling. The Music Learning Leadership at UMUC started off well, as Randy and I were the technology consultants and had to be in charge of maintaining and constantly updating the MLL Web Sourcebook. If you’re interested, please read the articles about music integration and leadership, the corresponding school reports and case studies, and the video and Powerpoint presentations right on the website. We worked hard on it, yeah!

Pre-DAY 1:
Although we were dedicated to the MLL conference, we were very excited to leave on Tuesday for Berlin. The Continental flight from BWI to Newark was pleasant. As soon as we met up with the rest of Waitiki, things got even more exciting. We were even surprised that Don Tiki’s Delmar and Haejung showed up on the same flight. As we filed onto the plane, I could smell the newness of the plane and was impressed to find that each seat had its own touch screen monitor. The goodies that were displayed were various forms of entertainment from German training program to casino games. Since I knew we would be arriving in Berlin early in the morning, I decided to sleep as much as I could after watching Batman Begins. Randy, on the other hand, was way too excited to sleep, and he (as well as others) paid the consequences when we finally arrived at the Abion Spreebogen Hotel. Later I found out that Spree was the river the hotel was situated on.

Spree near our hotel

Our hotel was super nice; you can check out the video of one of the rooms below.

More later!