Laura Beth in Germany

It has been a whirlwind of a summer. Things skyrocketed at work - we went from about 1000 lessons given per month to 2300 given in July. I was promoted as well to assistant director of our "little satellite school" in Heilbronn. My partner in crime (our customer service associate) and I were able to keep the place afloat and deliver this huge volume successfully and even came out as one of the most profitable schools in all of Germany for the first half of the year. As you can imagine, I am now in dior need of a vacation! To keep my sanity, we built in a few weekend trips in the past month. First, we spent three days at a house in Holland with 7 of our Kleinbottwar homies barbecuing, swimming, sunbathing and butchering the Dutch language with zero agenda. Next, we went hiking in the Alps with our friends Felix and Silvi. This time we were in a completely new region of Austria, a four hour drive from home and very close to the Italian border. In fact, we could have pull