$450 later

$450 later and majority of my stuff for the next six months is on its way to Germany. I spent today taping up and lsightly repacking the items I’ve been laying out these past two days that I will need in Germany for my internship. I get two 40 pound bags plus my carry on for my flight so everything else needed to be shipped USPS. I had four boxes totaling about 150 pounds and shipping all of that via international 6-10 day air costs about $450 from Boston to Germany. My plan was to walk down to the Kendall post office (less than a block away from 100 Memorial Apartments) but it turns out they are closed on Saturday (makes sense now that I think about it because the Kendall area is dead on the weekends). Luckily a fellow LGO lives near me and has a car so they drove me and my wife to the post office at Central. I keep saying I need to get a Zipcar account and then I forget about it.

I am only bringing the essentials with me to Germany. Naturally I brought both pairs of my Gator slippers that I wear during football games as well as my orange pants and my orange shorts.

as
posted about during the Domestic Plant Trek, here I am with the Don
wearing my gameday attire...it just happened that gameday was the same
night we had a dinner hosted by Amazon...no matter, I was the bell of
the ball (plus we won the National Championship)

Most everything else I brought was practical. I am leaving over half of my t-shirts (I have way too many t-shirts…which would surprise some people who see me at school because at school I only wear business casual…but I am actually a t-shirt lover).

I have four Ninja Turtle shirts

The only big ticket item I shipped was my desktop pc. My desktop PC is my gaming PC (I bought a minimally powered laptop for school) and I am expecting to have a ton of free time on weeknights (hopefully I’ll experience the culture of Europe on the weekends…RyanAir has $100 flights all over the place) since I don’t speak German and will probably only get BBC and maybe MTV in English.

I know how much ze Germans like Hasselhoff so hopefully I can at least watch Knight Rider...a show like that transcends language

The only other heavy items I brought with me are books but these are mostly school related. I’ve kept a list of all of the books professors that I respect here at MIT have recommended and the other day on Amazon I went on a shopping spree. I’ve been told by a number of students that the beginning of the internship can be a little boring as you get acclimated to the new environment and company so it is a great opportunity to read.