When I got back from work on Thursday, there was an email from the BBC.
The BBC!!!!
A Journalist had read something I had written about the refugee situation here, and wanted to talk to me.
Now, when the BBC calls I answer so I replied immediately and within five minutes Journalist Charlie and I were chatting away.
He said that Mark Mardell, a very famous BBC Journalist, wanted to visit rural Germany and see how the refugee situation was working out. (Last week he was in Strassburg talking to politicians.)
By 5.30pm Thursday evening we knew that Mark and his Editor, another Mark, would be arriving in Bremen on Friday morning. We arranged for Horst to pick them up and bring them to downtown Morsum.
I then phoned and emailed local people and students who I thought had connections with or opinions about the situation. And they came, along with some refugees.
On Saturday I escorted Mark through the market in Achim, for 'local colour' and more interviews.
It was all so interesting and both Marks were so interesting and interested.
I'm still pinching myself that this really happened.
But it did, and you can hear the result here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnz4
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