das Ende der Ferien

So, leider (unfortunately), Ferien is overrr.. But I can't say I didn't love it. I visited Kathi last week. Monday-Thursday. It was great. I bought boots, and Kathi and I dressed up like international twins, her clothes were all from Germany and mine were all from the US, and most everything matched, it was cute.

I made it on the train alone! I don't care if anyone else but me wants to celebrate this victory, it was amazing. I mean despite the fact that I almost got off a station early, the un-perks of living in a big city with several stops. And the conductor man talked so fast and over the radio thing is sounded like Charlie Brown's teacher... But somehow I made it, all the way home. Alone. Das wegen, I have a completely different outlook on traveling, and public transportation... I had to handle my luggage alone, yeah okay whatever. It was kinda bad because of my shoulder, but the seriously complicated part was shuffling myself around the U-Bahn to get home from the train. The train was the easy part, the lugging myself all over central station trying to figure out which way was up. Oh that was something. But I Did It.

In response to my previous Sub-Blog: Germany makes me Fat. I'm taking a stand! PS, this is the best example of why I feel this way about Germany and zunehmen...

This is obviously God's gift to man. And who would I be to say no to ice cream...
So anyways, about my stance. I was planning on taking Dance and Swimming, fun easyish ways to stay in shape. WRONG, well right. but TEUER. So after long hard weeks of throwing ideas around I decided offish on swimming. I bought a one piece, seemingly flattering-ish. Goggles, and a cap. I'm set. Today I bought a discount card that gets me 18% (what a weird number) off like a billion different swimmingpools. It's a sweet deal. But OH, this swim cap idea. OHHHHH is this the topic of discussion... First person I told: Pops. Annddddd, man did he find this so funny. He laughed for a solid 3 minutes. And continuted to laugh while explaining why he was so hysterical. "Only Omas wear Swim Caps, with Blumchen drin." hahhaha (only grammas wear swim caps, and they have little flowers all over, and they're PINK!) RUDE. So this has been the haha for the last two weeks. Mir Egal.I want to swim and keep my hair. So I started today, and I think I'm gonna start going to the old lady classes too - i.e H2O Bauch Bein und Po, I mean I'm actually excited... ♥

Here is the main issue I have here. I can't afford to do everything I want, this whole not working thing is killllling me. Stupid as that sounds, I hate not being able to provide for myself, and only being able to ask mom for money is ridic. Sure I knew I couldn't work before I got here, but man. So I'm trying to con ways around this whole, "you-don't-have-a-visa-you-can't-work-here" thing. Because I have friends, and they have connections. I feel like my family thinks I live in a box in America, because whenever they suggest something fun I might like to do, or something I could buy, or may want to buy, I ask "Oh cool,...How much does it cost?" or "Oh! ...Was that expensive?.." It's great.

School tomorrow. GET PUMPED!

Chris comes in 53ish days, for Christmas. Not sure if I've shared that? If not, there's the big news! He's coming for two weeks, and staying with us. Maybe to better his German...? hahahha. I think it's gonna be a funny two weeks. He knows NO German. Hopefully mine will be up to par by then, but who can know.. And I said to my host family that I would just sit there and talk German to everyone, or German to them and English to Chris but not translate. I'm so mean. But really, I'm looking forward to it. They say Christmas is the worst time to have vistors, but I mean, if I'm gonna be homesick anyways, might as well have some relief :]

We were in Lüdbeck last weekend, here's some pictures. We travel so much, since Germany's like the size of Rhode Island, we can do that. I love it.
OHHH and Money♥