Post date: Aug 15, 2014 3:36:39 PM
17 October 1966
I better write now, because tomorrow is choir and Wednesday I have a date with Gudrun. The weather is still warm (as warm as it can be with only 12 hours of daylight and this far north) and sunny! Because of that we went hiking Sunday, followed by a small birthday supper with the Schneider family for Gudrun’s sister’s birthday. We saw the slides from Gudrun’s holiday on the Dalmation coast of Yugoslavia. Twenty-eight kids on a thirty foot sailboat! They sure did have fun.
But Sunday got off to a slow start because it followed another birthday party which lasted until 2:30. Saturday afternoon I installed a back-up light on my car, and I find it very useful. Saturday morning I worked, as usual, on my demonstration organ, which is just about finished, except for the pipes. Then Friday we saw the film “The Clique” which is excellently played, although the group is so psychotic it gives me the willies.
Anyway, I’m working in the pipe shop now—completely different. Everything is routine, there are no think-problems. Rather boring, after a while, but I want to learn pipe-making and it only lasts four weeks.
My bank account has been constant since the increase in pay, even with the vacations. I have about half what I got from the Peace Corps left. Not bad. A man can almost live here if he gets a good wage. What the married ones do I can’t imagine. The budget dollar just can’t be stretched that far. And Germany is the most prosperous nation in Europe. Boy, I can only say “We have it good.”
See you soon.