HELLO THERE,
and let me welcome you to another installment of...whatever this is. This one's inspired by chocolate milk (the making, not consuming of) and the new Foals album, which by the way is in-credible. The weather has been as hot as hot can be, I've been getting to German school on time(!), I'm working on getting a p/t job for when the course is done, and I'm noticing that my brownness is not just grub (yay!). After two full days of kids' parties the weekend just gone, I am all caked and pretezlled out...in a good way :) in fact whist I'm there this nation does baked goods like NOWHERE ELSE, something I've been meaning to talk about for a while now, and beer too as it happens...in fact I'm beginning to forget what life is like at home? And am consequently starting to think about my next move at the beginning of next year, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.........
Yeah, so I started this all fired up and lost steam somewhere between 23.17 and 23.43...how are you? If you care enough to be reading these little letter arrangments, then surely you are lovely and I miss you the very mostest. I ordered a new pair of trainers, I guess that's news. Mine were killing my feet, and the replacements are FIT. I forgot how fun buying shoes was, good job most of the shoes here are a tad shite or I might have found myself going on a binge...
Other things, the German bank account card I coveted for so long (due to its' non-arrival) actually got here, it's orange and says "bequem" on it. I have yet to research what that means. I'll do it later. Elsewhere, I've been searching the SONOS for things to listen to - another thing that I keep forgetting to talk about, HOWW I ask myself, as it's possibly the best idea in the WORLD... kind of like an in-house mp3 player that's connected to Napster and means you can play all the music that ever existed in the world...ever...whenever you like. It even suggests new things every week, and some of them are nothing short of fantastisch, although some aren't. That's life I guess. I will surely miss it almost as much as the family when I finally move on...almost.
Talking of which, I have agreed to stay until the end of this year, when I have no idea what I'm going to do. At this moment in time I keep telling myself that it depends solely on the state of my German (which is coming along rather nicely, if i do say so myself) but in reality, who knows? I kinda like the idea that there are no exact plans in motion...until I realise that I'm 25 next birthday and therefore a lot older than I expected to be at this point. If I could have some decision or other in place by the end of the summer, I'd be happy. Happier, anyway, as these days I actually already am happy :) scorrrreee
Anyway, I digress. The part I was meant to mention was that, if any kind (nice only plzz :p) souls would like to show their faces around these parts, August will probably be best and if I like you enough, you can probably stay with me. If not, or if you want to be closer to the city or meet more travellers or whatever, I can also give you some hostel names so you could have a bit more independence, do the whole sightseeing part...
Right, tired now, speak tomorrow. Or the day after. Or another day. Remind me to talk about the German-only football barbeque which means I will never forget where I was throughout the Germany-England game of 2010. Ha.
I love each and every one of you, except............you. Yeah, you! You smell :p
x
ps, bequem means "easily"????? not sure why this appears on a bank card...spend money easily, perhaps...but srsly, there's not even a context. How annoying...
A few more days have ticked past, and once again I'm not updating half as much as I promised myself I would. Then again these lips always shun any form of obligation, so I guess I should shut up and carry on as normal ;)
In short, another rather quiet one, peppered with little moments worth mentioning...but going back to the quiet it's actually rather nice, there's no outward signs apart from the bagginess of my trousers and something of a spring in my step, but I can tell I will look back on this period of my life as a time of healing, from situations that were driving me mad and a life in the midlands which took its toll upon the saner parts of my brain.
The weather is still on a downward spiral, but I've been told that this will change by the end of this week - i hope so, as I'd love to get back on the Fahrrad once more. Other than that it's been surely about the simple things - avoiding the 24 hour clock as I actually have an irrational hatred for it, changing passwords so that they all have swear words in and make me smile each time I log in, rediscoverances of albums I loved once (specifically : Riot On An Empty Street) as well as some very welcomed suggestions from the Sonos (specifically, mark 2 : the namesake of this post by the rather lovely Sia, she's great). I've also been planning a few tricks to whip out of this dusty old sleeve; so watch this space, or don't, I guess it's up to you... :p
Theme of the week : train missing. This keeps happening to me through a complete and utter fault of my own. This entails me either having to walk home for an hour and a half, or as happened yesterday getting home at 6am after taking refuge at the local neighbourhood hostel bar. This also entailed me falling asleep on a tram and missing my stop. Fail x 38265455. And Missing German school. Fail x 38265456. Life goes on, and in the meantime I make a new week's resolution to write down train times...
OK so I have pizza a-waiting to be eaten and dvd's a-sitting, wanting to be watched. For the shoe lovers of you out there, check out these rather beautiful creations, and all completely unique too, if only I had a little more doshington...
Hearts and kisses, and this entire post is dedicated to the Most Outstanding Official Miss Parker, who I can't keep beaming about as she's off into the sunset to be the teacher that every kid remembers forever. :) I'm so proud of you dude!
x
A fail/unfail situation...x
Read More......So, its 00.08....09 and i really shouldnt be starting this, i had not a whole lot of sleeps last night and today has been pack-ed. Early tomorrow i am going to attempt not to oversleep for Deutschkurs. Again. However, i just read a catch up blog of a very dear friend of mine (you know who you are...) and it made me feel all kinds of happy, I feel really energised and like I should really try and transfer that happy feeling to anyone else who fancies catching up on the German Saga of Me. If there are any of you about, that is.. :p
Once again here we go...
The last week or so has been fantastically heiss. The weather simply beat beat beat down from the cloudless sky for well over a week, and whenever I logged into Facebook to see a complaint about the British rain the meaner part of myself did a little "ha!". Just like that. This does mean, of course, that I spent a lot of time away from the computer as sitting at it felt like a complete waste. Plus, it was simply too hot to do anything apart from sit, and even that made one perspire (in an attractive feminine way obviously), so I thought I might as well take advantage and get a little brown. And the result, scatman achieved - via slightly pink and some rather obvious white patches. I'm not at the place of popping down the nude bit of the English Garden quite yet!
Evenings generally saw things cooling down and me getting out and about in the forest, I went cycling every single day last week and am starting to remember the gym-bunny tendencies I had at one time in my life. (I was so tempted to write "backalong" then...then realised i would actually sound like Farmer Giles). One Sunday, a group of us decamped to the English Garden (non nude bit) to sit, listen to the drummers that seem to be there ALL THE TIME (seriously...it must be their job) and complete verious German homeworks. I'm finding myself in these last two weeks or so a lot more happy to converse with people in German - today I was admiring the umbrella of the eldest girl's piano teacher (which is AMAZING! all musical notes and scales incidentally) and found out she's Russian...I also chat with the cleaner and like it when Gemma's boyfriend (or anyone as a matter of fact) corrects my German. I'm learning things every day :)
With regards to this week, the weather has colded down rather too much, so i've hermited somewhat more than I'd like. Apart, of course, for a trip to Zorneding where one of the girls I've met lives - this is kind of the reason for me sleeping rather too little last night as I only just caught the last u-bahn home after realising its BLOODY AGES AWAY...however, it was uber nice to have girly chats and a change of scenery, watch Amelie for the first time in an age, and try to remember the theme to Ground Force (unsuccessfully) - so definitely worth the effort!
Harry-Potter wise, I finished the last book on the train back from "the Ding" yesterday, after four weeks solid reading. I am now distraught with what to do with my life, and am looking for other children's fads to go through. My money's on Twilight haha, though other contenders are...who am I kidding I actually have no idea about what's cool with kids these days?! Over here they like Pippi Longstocking, who is rather too goofy and ginger to be at all popular in the UK. Going back to the HP thing though, I am completely in agreement with those who say it gets better as it goes on, I actually found myself caring about the characters and what happened to them, when to start with I kinda disliked them all. Quite a feat...this means I am now on a mission to see all the films, and in the meantime I will fill my time completing my collection of pictures of immature German street names...coming to a Facebook near you soon...
Right, this is the point where I'm off as I've realised I've done two things, twice, that I hate more than life itself...a) mention/talk about the weather and b) discuss Facebook in real life. NOT COOL :/ in fact, in addition to that and while we're on the subject...current hatred : people who go for nights out and feel the need to drunkenly update their status every 3.762 minutes...srsly, have a pint and actually speak to your friends, mmkay!
Off to buy the first Twilight book rightabout.....now. x
kapow, well there you go a sound effect beginning, trying to make up for a rather standard time of late by using sound words, does it work? SMACK...CRASH...OOF...ok this is sounding rather a little too much like batman?
anyway! some stuff has happened, alongside a whole lot of other stuff that all wasn't soundtracked in my poor deprived ears due to lack of ipod charger, which i left on english soil...not cool. there was some sun, and i went to a closed off street fete type thing, but then there was loads of rain but it stayed really hot, and every time it rained it was like there was some pressure being let off, but even when i kept my window open to the maximum i couldn't sleep for the heat haze, and i would wake up with all the clothes i went to bed in thrown about my room, and this was the point i started missing home a lot...but then it got sunnier again and i spoke to important people - not all of them, mind, but some - and I braved some activities outside the duvet cocoon i had going on (today will mark me finshing the fifth harry potter book in exactly three weeks so it had all got rather too comfortable) so i went to this amazing 50s/miami vice combo bowling centre after walking aimlessly in the rain, and i sat on a bar stool in good company and tried not to fall off cause i kept losing concentration, which led to me missing my last train home by about 7 minutes (gah), which lead to me having THE best mindclearing walk home ever, even though it took me about an hour at the dead of night, but i wasn't scared once but just followed the tramlines whilst ignoring passing taxis, and i thought i might write a series of stories about a grumpy mermaid, but then realised i can't draw...
And now, it's far too lovely to be wasting time on the internet...i'm off to the forest.x