We just wrapped our first of two waves of German visitors this Fall/Winter.
Quick background on the first visit: in Germany, students must complete a two week internship during their tenth year to see what work and various professions are like. This is a requirement and as a result, German tenth graders get two weeks “off” to complete the assignment. Ava, who is Peter’s (Martin’s closest friend from Germany) eldest daughter, had her two week break around the same time as our Thanksgiving week off, so Peter and Ava came over for a 10 day visit.
The majority of the trip the included some father daughter bonding for Peter and Ava and some travels and general craziness with the American Germans (aka the Breuers).
The group enjoyed great meals, exploring the city and some sightseeing. Peter took all 3 kids to Alcatraz and all of the Germans went for a bike ride across the bridge. And in addition to time in San Francisco, we spent two nights at Timber Cove and a few nights up in Dunsmuir for Thanksgiving with the bigger Gimbel Family.
And in addition to all of the fun, Ava spent a day with me in my office and a day with Martin at his place of work. I gave her a full picture of my day; early call with India, coffee with a colleague in SF, arrival at the office around 11:30 (e.g. just in time for lunch), two meetings and then an afternoon of shopping. During our time we did complete some actual work including fielding questions on a system implementation, approving some vendor payments, evaluating FX currency risk, field a question from sales and researching a technical accounting issue.
It was great having Peter come visit again and it was really nice spending time with and getting to know Ava. I also loved introducing them both to my family and all of our fun traditions of Thanksgiving. And even better, I can’t wait to host Peter again when his middle child Ida turns 15 in a few years and completes her two week internship in San Francisco. Ava plans to join again as well (assuming she isn’t already here studying at Berkeley or Stanford).
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