Preface:

I'd like to start with a few words regarding the purpose of this blog.  The first reason, of course, will be to allow family and friends who are interested in keeping up with my experiences to do so.  The second, slightly more selfish reason will be for me to keep a visual history of my time here in Darmstadt.  To accomplish this second goal, I plan to post at least one picture pertaining to the subject(s) of the entry every time I make an entry.  Hopefully this will prove to be interesting to anyone reading this, as well.