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
I've had a fair few blogs in my time and I consistently struggle with this first post...in which case, a small history!
I am 24 years old (you probably knew this already).
I am currently marooned in deepest Somerset (again with the probably knew thing).
I have been thinking about starting this page for quite a while (not so known).
I will be moving to Germany in roughly...11 days.
I think this will be a really nice way to let people laugh at all the German social faux pas-es I am bound to make. :)
I took inspiration for the web address from some guy whose name quite literally translates to English as Total Lion King (true story).
"Deutsche Märchen" simply means "German Tales". I have probably got the grammar and gender all wrong however :p
Me Meeston is the alias I always use when signing up to email mailouts...I always get creeped out using my own name so...this might be why :p
So, I guess the main reason behind this whole saga could possibly be laziness, as I already have a lot of peoples addresses as well as a rather large travel journal to record things in. I still intend to make the most of both of these things by jotting down various happenstances, saving tickets and whatnot as well as sending various german crap to everyone (ever) in the post...but the web is such a universal thing these days (the "world wide" bit in www would kinda give that away, right...) that I thought it would be easy for people to read, easy for me to write and...i don't know. Just nice.
Also, I'm really looking forward to having a reason to write again. You know...write, the very thing I defined myself by for three whole years then completely spurned (lol spurned) afterwards? If I ever wake at 2am with the weird sinking feeling in my stomach that needs to be satiated by creative means, I can tappy-tap away for a bit and all will be right with the world :)
A little more info, then...if you didn't already know, the reason I'll be off to Munich is to help out in a family by teaching their girls English, taking them to hobbies, cooking them small meals, generally keeping them entertained and such with crafts and funny hair-dos...that sort of thing. How this all came about...I happened to be bored of a Saturday at my full-time job in Derby and joined an aupair website...got a few emails here and there, nothing special, quite a lot of awful families (sorry but true :p) and then out of the rough came this amazing email! I read it, re-read it, forwarded it to the people that meant the very most to me to get their opinion...then sort of decided to go on the spot. I was fed up of my jobs, and although everyone I knew was sound as a pound I didn't really see what I was achieving anymore just existing in Derby. For the first birthday ever I'd felt older than usual, and maybe I was just needing to do something out of the ordinary to keep myself interested in life. Whatever it's attributed to, I just knew it was the right decision. I spoke to the family at length, I spoke to the girl who preceded me again at length, and kept in regular contact with them both. This morning, I spoke with the family again - even managing to speak with the girls, agreed a date and bought my flight over. I've also been on the look out for crafty things to do and am pretty set on getting them hooked on Decopatch - even if the base of that decision is cause I also want to have a go :p
Which brings me to now. I've been moved out of my Derby flat for just over two weeks but it seems like foreverandaday. I've temped in this crappy office filing away the largest amount of files I have ever seen IN MY LIFE, for a bit of extra cash. I've received my new passport and look successfully smackaddict-y. I've had super-fun weekends away in Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol and Oxford, revisited my teenage haunts by having nights out in Minehead and Taunton, have seen and intend to see some of the faces I've met over the years. I'm currently selling most of my life on eBay to again raise a few extra funds. And I think that just about covers it!
I'm so happy life got exciting again. :)