This conference has about 4,000 attendees and has been going on since the 1960s!  People from all the German speaking countries and some Americans are here too, who I will meet tomorrow at an English speaking meeting. There's such a feeling of unity, fellowship and gratitude. You would feel it even it you didn't speak German. Everyone I have met has been lovely. I was able to put out the 12 Step Centering Prayer brochures on the information tables and a lot of them have been taken.  I have more to put out tomorrow.  AA is truly the universal language of the heart that reaches beyond language and culture.  It's almost like I've known these people for years.  It's amazing--they even look like the people that I go to meetings with!