1st Week in Germany

I Rodney having been proded by my daughter Caroline do hereby record my comings and goings here in Dueschland. We arrived on Tuesday morning @ 8:50 a.m. The plane had some turbulance during the descent into Stuttgart. But all is well. Wednesday and Thursday we had a plant tour and training and orientation meetings. Friday we met our German collegues that we will be working with. I will be working in building 16 with Bojrn. A young fellow about 28 years old. He has lots of energy and his English is getting better. He said I could teach him some English and he could teach me some German. Should be very interesting. The plant tour was very interesting. The plant is huge and employs about 36,000 people. We got 3 inches of snow on Wednesday night and it snowed off and on Thursday - Saturday. Today the sun is shining brightly. Yesterday we went to Stuttgart by train and had a bus and foot tour of the city. 95% of Stuttgart was destroyed in WWII a few of the castles and churchs survived the attacks but most of the city had to be rebuilt. The first concrete TV tower in the world was built there in 1956. It has a high speed elevator taking you to the top of the tower in just a few seconds. It was cold and snowy and we were glad to get back to the warmth of the Marriott. I called Martin and Betina on Saturday and he gave me some phone numbers for Thomas and Jenzs who were also trainers in Tuscaloosa. I called Thomas and we plan to get together soon for a meal and maybe go to a soccer game in Stuttgart. Jenzs and I plan to go to see Martin at the end of March in Bremin. It is a 7 hour drive to the north. Our first week here has been very good and the German people have gone out of their way to make us feel at home.