Chapter 37: LaurenLook out, Germany, here I come! Despite feeling like she’d been hit by a truck following some seventeen hours of travel and very little sleep, Lauren couldn’t help feeling a burst of excitement at being in another country. Up till then, the most exotic traveling she’d done in her life, and the reason for her having a passport at all, had been trips from her childhood home in Michigan to Toronto. And there, her native tongue was still spoken!
Even though she’d heard Silke speaking German with Alex and her sister over the past few months, it was different being completely surrounded by a foreign language. More than one, actually. The airport seemed to be a hub for a number of international airlines, and with Silke still subdued and distracted, Lauren did her best to take e
