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Now to answer your letters and fill in some more comments here and there, which
you may want to add to the typed copies. #1, I really appreciate having mail from home
when you get time - as busy as each day is here the letters seem farther apart somehow.
I hope the news from here is keeping you somewhat up to date and I know that pictures
(one roll back today, pretty good results), etc will add a lot when I get home.

Glad to hear that the copies are going out - thanks, Mom. Hope you can share your
copy with Lucille and the Fishers. The only other special interest I have would be the Harwoods,
if that could be worked out. I'll leave it up to you though.

Sure sorry to hear about Em and Hilmer Benson, too. Sounds like it's pretty rough
on Dorothy, and I know she must appreciate your concern. Hope Jan is O.K. in Beruit [Beirut?].

As to money - it goes pretty fast, though I'm really pinching pennies where
possible. But I want to travel some and that costs money. So far I'm going when I
want and trying to live and eat cheap. Maybe next quarter I'll want to stay
closer to home, with families in Beutelsbach, etc. I sort of suspect so. The money
has gone pretty fast so far - I have about $80 left of the $300 original. But I had planned
to spend about $200 on the 3 week vacation, and it will probably end up much less - about
$75. The plan is now for Bridge and me to buy bicycles! (to be resold later) and bicycle
around Germany - as far north as Copenhagen and perhaps over to Holland, staying in
youth hostels or camping out or staying with families. It could be a wonderful trip -
speaking only German, meeting people along the way, etc. And it would surely be
cheap, giving me more money to survive next quarter on. We're not definite yet,
but I think we will probably do it. I'll try to keep you informed on my money matters,
especially as the 3 week vacation is past and I know its cost. It may turn out that another
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As to my source of news here - it is mainly the weekly issue of Time Magazine, plus a glance
at the N.Y. Times European edition when I get a chance. No radio or T.V. though both
are available here. We also are getting the Stanford Daily, though several weeks late. I'm most
deficient on western news, particularly sports: basketball and soon track. Maybe father
should write once and a while and fill me in!

My visit with Marcia was brief but pleasant. The Meaders seem like wonderful people,
and they have gotten acquainted with several American students studying in Milan and living
close by, so the atmosphere is quite stimulating (music majors - singers in opera mainly). Marcia
mentioned Fay's illness and said that she herself was better. She had only been there 2 days,
had slept all of one and hadn't seen much of anything yet. But they have many plans and
might even get to Stuttgart for a while. She looked fine and was getting into the swing
of things quite well.

Maybe I'll have time to tell you about classes in my next letter. Food here is plain
but good, but the supply is limited on meat, etc, and I have yet to feel really full after
a meal. Right now I had better close and get to studying, since I have a midterm
at 8 AM tomorrow in Anthropology and much still to read and organize. See, we do
have classes (though only 9 days in the month of February, 3 in March). The work is
plenty heavy considering everything else there is to do. Another letter soon I hope,

Love,
George