Procrastination...

HOw do you keep yourself busy and not really accomplish anything? You follow my example ;-p It's all good really. Taize was *exciting*, I met many nice people, ate too much food, took some pictures and took up a new challenge from God that I hope I can keep at. Unfortunately I left my raincoat on the bus because it was so gorgeous here in Freiburg and I didn't realise that until yesterday morning. *whoops* If the jacket that was found by the bus driver is indeed mine, then I shall have it back in my hands on Saturday--I just hope that it doesn't rain non-stop until then or my wool jacket will be very wet. My umbrella is kind of sad because it doesn't deal with the wind very well. Yesterday as I walked to check out the hotel where my parents will probably stay when they visit me at the end of May it flipped inside out at least three times, which in my opinion defeats the purpose of keeping myself dry ;-p Then yesterday I was a bit impulsive and went with Clarice again to here dance thing at her "church" (mormon church) which was good and then I went to International Connection where someone was making dampfnudeln--basically it's more like a sweet bun made with a yeast dough...and I was bad and ate some of them, in fact way to many of them. Why do I keep doing this to myself? I dont' know...sometimes I feel like I don't take my allergy seriously enough--I need some backup support to really increase this "no-power" that seems to be non-existent. Alas. So I was out pretty late yesterday and then I was up pretty early to do some cleaning this morning. Taht was *exciting*. My roommate and I cleaned the bathroom and kitchen thoroughly and I washed my floor as well...then I have done some repair work and read some of my book and wrote emails to ask questions about accomodations and send photos to people from TAize...terribly *interesting* I know. And now I'm sitting here and I need to take a nap. Then maybe I should work on my resume...that's what I've been avoiding a bit. Na ja, I will work on it after my nap. Tonight I'm going dancing at the Palladium and tomorrow I should go shopping for some more gifts...otherwise I don't have anything else that I can think of that I will do. Yay for boring babble--I'm surprised if you're still reading ;-p Ich wuensche dir einen schoenen Tag Bean! (und andere, falls jemand es auch liest)Denk an euch.

Going to Taize...

Oh the *excitement*...in less than an hour I have to leave to wait for the bus that is going to Taize...I hope that I have all that I will need in terms of clothes, etc. I'm just taking my rain coat as opposed to my winter coat and I hope that that won't be something I will regret--I guess jumping jacks may be a good thing ;-p (to keep warm I mean). I have my bible (in German!) and lots of food...in fact my backpack pretty much has my water bottle, dictionary, a book, my camera and then food and in my bag I have lots of food crammed in there too. I'm still going to have to buy stuff there but I've got a bit of a head start on my allergies. I'm really tired right now because I didn't sleep in as much as I could have and I stayed up yesterday playing solitaire--yes, *sad day*. I watched a funny movie though called something like "The smile of a summer night" from the 1950s and it's a Swedisch film but you could change the language to German...very happy. The sun is shining today and it feels like spring may be coming--yay! There is hope but maybe not until April. I don't know how things work here. Once I come back I get to start preparing for my trip home--that's *exciting* too and I am probably going to go check out a kindergarten where I may be able to volunteer a couple times a week. Why? Because I want to work on my German and there I would be able to work on that (I hope) and work with little kids, which would help again in terms of discerning my future plans...and this week at Taize I'm sure I'll learn a lot...but hopefully not in a homework kind of way. Yay for being done with first semester...now I have to think about which courses I would like to take come next semester but it's all good. Well I think I should probably stop now and have a nap or something--power naps work wonders. Bean, I hope that you have a nice weekend...not too much homework. Schoenen Tag wuensche ich euch (falls es jemand anders auch gibt). Denk an euch.

Back to the beginning

When things start looking up, it's important to be careful because there is usually a twist somewhere along the way...*sad day* I have been presented with an interesting opportunity but there are many many factors to consider and this decision won't be made a little while=stress for me. I really want to work on and improve my German, especially in terms of my vocabulary and my speaking skills. How do you do that? Well you practise and here I have the opportunity to maybe live with a family (with three kids) and maybe do an au pair +studying combo. Thing is, that looking after kids has the potential to be a full time job and then I wouldn't have time to do anything else, maybe not even study...on the other hand, the only way to really kick-start my language learning is to be immersed in a family where I would be surrounded by German, German and more German. *bah* A key to low stress is of course not worrying about things that you don't have enough information to make a decision for...haha...I'm back to my old tendencies--enter queen of Stress lol. So prayers would be good...I'm going to be doing a lot of that and hopefully talking to the person who proposed this idea to find out some more infos. The *excitement*
I made hot cross buns today...they are yummy but I am trying to show discipline and save some of them for later. I can sense love handles are starting to develop lol and I need to start getting a move-on exercise-wise...today I was successful but to keep it up, that will be the real challenge. Tonight I'm feeling kind of blah...like just recognising how boredom and being by yourself can work against you really fast--especially if you are me and you like to feel sorry for yourself. *oh dear* Sleep should be good for that but we'll see...I haven't been sleeping that spectacularly lately and I'm not sure what has been going through my head.
Okay, so enough of sounding all depressed...yay for German bibles that are understandable ;-p Now that I'm being very random I should probably stop. I hope that you have a nice day Bean--I don't think anyone else reads this anyways--yay for sisters! *inspiration* for your midterm-ness. Schoenen Abend noch.

Yay for sleeping...

Sorry Bean about my last blog...I sometimes feel the need to practise my German ;-p I hope that you are feeling better today.
Last night I went over to Ali's house, a campus girl from the States and we made scones with cranberries in them...they were super super yummy and they were huge. We were both very full by the end of the evening ;-p We watched 'Dirty dancing Havana nights', a totally predictable and cheesy love story but still very cool because dancing is *exciting*. I found out that there are spring breakers coming from the States this week and that they will be hanging out tomorrow night at the campus office...I think I will go and meet some of the people who have been supporting campus in Freiburg from the states. Okay, so I don't really need any English practise but hey, fellowship is good.
Today I slept in until 10 am and then I practised my dance and stretched...though not very very hardcore because I'm totally out of shape. I just try holding my arms in second position for a couple of minutes and I can totally feel how my back muscles tense up and get really tired. *sad day* But I guess practise should help ;-p Then I had some food and went to the post office but alas I was fifteen minutes too late...on saturdays many stores close at 13 Uhr. I debated going into town and seeing if the main post office was open but then I thought that it might just be my attempt to procrastinate and I will just mail my postcard on Monday. Yeah, so I bought a postcard in Torino to send to my grandparents and I'm sending it now. *whoops* But I thought that since they are on vacation it might make more sense to send it a)when it's sooner to their return date and b) when I have more *exciting* things to say...although postcards aren't known for their incredible writing space ;-p It's all good.
So now I should continue to work on fixing up my Hausarbeit...I would like to send it on sunday/monday to another friend or prof and have them look it over. It would be very *exciting* to have it all done before I go to Taize next Saturday. That should be *exciting* too...I suspect God will have lots of things to show me, when I'm there.
Well, I should probably get started on my homework now...have a nice morning Bean! I suspect we may run into each other. Wuensche euch (when Bean's not the only reader ;-p) einen schoenen Tag noch!

Ich bin so muede

Hallo ihr liebe...also hauptsaechlich Bean :-) Ich hoffe, du hast's mit deinem Midterm geschafft aber ich glaube schon...du bist sehr intelligent--sag mir aber mal, wie es fuer dich war.
Ich wollte heute Morgen laenger schlafen aber ich konnte nicht...ich hatte schon so viele Gedanken im Kopf und irgendwie wollte ich doch aufstehen--waahrscheinlich hatt ich Hunger oder so was aber jetzt will ich einfach die Augen immer geschlossen halten (?)...du verstehst, was ich meine, oder? ich meine die nicht offen lassen. Na ja, ich werde meine Hausarbeit weiterschreiben/korrigieren. Jetzt habe ich mehr Zeit, als ich frueher gedacht hatte, denn meine Freundin, die ich heute zum Kaffee treffen vorhatte, hat ihre Schluessel verloren...also wir treffen uns leider heute nicht und das heisst, ich habe Zeit zum arbeiten *wunderbar*. Aber heute Abend koennte ich vielleicht wieder zu diesem International Connections Abend gehen und vielleicht sollte ich was koerperliche Bewegung machen. Ich wuerde mich bestimmt auf ein Schlafchen freuen...muss mal schauen, was geht.
Gestern Abend war eine Freundin bei mir zum Abendessen...wir haben Pfannkuchen gegessen, die waren echt lecker und es hat Spass gemacht. Die, Lena, geht nach Hamburg...ihre Familie wohnt dort und sie wird ihr Studium da weiter machen...ich werde sie vermissen und ich hoffe, wir bleiben halt in Kontakt miteinander.
Heute habe ich Lust auf Spaetzle machen...habe es nie selbst probiert also wird's bestimmt interessant laufen aber man brauch so ein bissle Spannung (*excitement* meine ich) Habe gestern versucht, Zicka eine Email mit Fotos zu schicken aber hat's net geklappt, denn ihre Email hat kein Platz mehr...was ironisch ist, man kann ihr das nicht sagen, ohne dass man sie sieht...es gibt auch kein Platz fuer eine kurze Email drin. Na ja, so geht's ;-p
Ich muss mal zu ueberlegen beginnen, was ich waehrend meinen Besuche zu Hause machen moechte...es gibt halt viele Leute, die ich sehen moechte. Ich glaube aber zuerst sollte ich mich eher auf meine Hausarbeit und die Vorlesungsverzeichnis fuer naechstes Semester konzentrieren...dann kann ich mich fuer Kurse entscheiden und anmelden bevor ich nach Kanada gehe. Schau ma mal.
Okay, Bean I hope I haven't totally lost you...let me know when something was super confusing. I'm sure you did amazingly yesterday on your test. Time to work on my homework now. Wuensche euch einen schoenen Tag!

Nothing like a little bit of *excitement*

Well today took some interesting turns to say the least...but now I have survived and I'm looking forward to my bed. I was finally able to send my photos to my parents after my email had been behaving weird last night and I learned the basic step for the lindy hop and the charleston (not that I'll remember them ;-p) with Clarice...we're going to be dance partners--in that we're both going to teach/help each other some other dance techniques. I'm going to do my best but I'm by far not the best dancer and I find teaching others a challenge...so it may be good practise for me. My *excitement* came when I went to flip my calendar to March and I noticed that my library stuff was due today...this being at 18:10 when the library closes at 19 Uhr and when my dinner was just ready but I had spilt some of it on the floor...so I had a little spaz, well on MSN lol to my sister. Yay for Bean! Then it was over...it's so weird to feel angry for one moment and in the next, it's okay...*oh well* that's me for you. So I rushed to the library and managed to return everything and get out a couple new CDs as well. But tonight I've been working on my Hausarbeit and that's been slow-going because I'm easily distracted and I really am unsure as to whether I'm doing it all correctly. I would like to have a first draft ready by friday, even if it really is disorganised and poorly-written, because then when I visit my exchange family this weekend I can ask for some guidance--I know that I'll be needing some. Oh on another note, I had some weird dreams last night and I woke up really unhappy and crying...yeah, so who knows exactly what I was thinking but I'm pretty sure I was a bit unsatisfied with myself and how I was coming across to me in my dreams, if that makes sense. Sorry, I'm just randomly randomly babbling today and about awkward things so I'll stop. I should probably get ready for bed now. Tomorrow I need to get some more work done on my Hausarbeit and buy a thank-you present...probably some exercise would be good too (for my sanity if nothing else ;-p) Ich wuensche euch (wahrscheinlich soll ich nur dir sagen--fuer dich Bean ;-) ) einen schoenen Abend...hoffe, es geht's euch gut. Denk an euch.