Day 9 - Friday June 17 - Trier and Messerich, Germany

Mrs. Kann again joined us on Friday to take us to the village of Messerich where Marlen Meyer (daughter of the Weber's in Pickliessem) and her husband live. When we met Marlen at the Weber farm on Wednesday she asked us to join them at their home in Messerich which is just west of Bitburg (Pickliessem is just to the east of Bitburg). She and her husband are both teachers --- she teaches in the equivalent of a high school in American, and her husband is an instructor at a technical college where he teaches business courses. Their daughter Veronica was going to be home from Mainz on Friday, hence their request to come to their home. They too had a relatively new home, i.e.built in the 1980`s. Marlen speaks very little English, but her husband, Thomas, is able to converse reasonably well in English. And their daughter Veronica speaks almost perfect English --- you could meet her in America and hardly know she was from somewhere else --- her idiom and inflection are nearly perfect. We ended the afternoon with them having had something to eat and, of course, a couple of bottles of Bitburger Beer. We drove back to Trier where we dropped off Mrs. Kann and headed back to Luxembourg where we stayed overnight Friday night in preparation for today's flight to Munich, which is where we are as I write this. According to Mrs. Kann the Weber and Meyer families in Pickliessem and Messerich are not "typical" German families in that they have new homes and are relatively secure financially (as atested to by the fact that they drive Mercedes, Audi`s and BMW's ---only Veronica drives a VW).