June 14, 2005

• Look who finally has Internet

  
  

  Yes, that would be me.

  
  

       I was going to post some pictures of Germany and where we live but the files are all to big.  I’ll wait till Bear gets home and see if he knows how to shrink them.  My forced sabbatical from xanga has been good for me, now I know I won’t lose my mind w/out xanga or an Internet connection.  However I have missed the connection that I feel with some xangans.  (you know who you are!)

  
  

      Germany is wonderful.  My German is terrible.  I get very intimidated when trying to speak to total strangers.  They almost always correct me in some way I don’t understand or immediately start speaking English better than I do.  Like I said…intimidating.  (I may never move home, I love a challenge.)  I have three different German language cd rom sets, one of is bound to sink in sooner or later.  Why is it that most of the Germans I know speak two, three and sometimes four languages and I don’t even speak proper English.  I think our school systems failed me.

  
  

  We recently moved from our efficiency in Gossmannsdorf village. (pictures later) to a one bedroom apt. in Burgbernheim. (more pictures, again.)  Less than a week after we moved (I hadn’t even finished unpacking) I fell on the steps and nearly broke my ankle.  That was nine days ago and I can still barely walk.  Needless to say the house set-up came to a screeching halt.  Bear has been an absolute love.  For the first week he even went so far as to bring the coffee pot into the bedroom so all I had to do was reach over and hit the on button.  He brought in a small chest and set it by the bed and filled it with every thing he thought I might need during the day.  The only time I had to get out of my queenly perch was to go to the bathroom.  For that I had to plan ahead since it took forever for me to hobble to the bathroom.  I swear a couple of times I didn’t think I was going to make it.  Now, nine days later it only take a minute to get there and the coffee pot is back in the kitchen where it belongs.  The hardest part of all of it was I couldn’t go for my walks.  I usually take a long walk every day.  Since we live on the third floor and I have to slide down all those steps on my ass I don’t go anywhere I don’t have to.

  
  

       I promise to post pictures of all the cool places we’ve been since we got here.  Just as soon as I figure it out, that should be sometime next year, just kidding. 

  
  

       In the meantime it’s good to be back, and I guess in a day or so I’ll know who stayed faithful and who didn’t. HAH!

  
  

   

  
  

    

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