Bonus Port: Berlin, Germany

It's time to whip that passport out again. Next destination? Berlin, Germany.

I am one of the lucky few students who will be traveling with the Albert Schweitzer Institute to Berlin for the Nobel Peace Lauriates Summit ceremony. From November 6-12, I'll be galivanting around Berlin, helping members of the United Nations and various Nobel Peace Lauriates. As the assistants to Mr. David Ives, executive director of the Albert Schweitzer Institute, we will (hopefully) be given access to exclusive conferences and panel discussions.

Ives's main goal of the conference is to convince President Mikhail Gorbachev to come to Quinnipiac as a guest speaker--and we're there to help convince him. We going to show Gorbachev that the students at Quinnipiac aren't as apathetic as they say and that we'd highly appreciate his presence at the university.

Amazingly, the university is funding majority of the trip so for less than the price of a one-way plane ticket to Berlin, we're being put up in housing, supplied all meals, and flights. Of course, to balance all of this out, I need to be willing to miss school for a few days, and put my most professional face on when dealing with the honorable people. I guess the open-mouthed gawking will have to wait.

And no worries readers--I'll be blogging my experience from overseas and most likely writting a story (or two) for The Quad News.

So really, how lucky am I?! Bahamas, Spain, Morocco, Namibia, South Africa, Mauritius, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, China, Hawaii, Guatemala--and now Berlin? Customs is going to have a field day with my passport.

This is my first big adventure after Semester at Sea. And that lull I was dealing with all summer and this semester is gone. Now the only question that remains is--what am I going to pack?