Yeah I know it's been a while since I posted in here.
But I figured I uploaded quite a few pictures, and that was as good as like 3 blog posts, y'know?
Today Holly and I walked in the rain. The weather here reminds me of Oregon; always changing its mind. It was seriously like flash flood business an hour ago, and now its blue skies and sunny. Aber auf jeden Fall, this neighborhood is beautiful in the rain. And when the sun is about to set. I learned this within the last 24 hours.
The world isn't necessarily breathtaking at 10 in the morning on a cloudy day, as it's been when I've been out in the neighborhood lately.
But last night I took Holly on a walk around 7pm after Skyping with Sarah for an hour (which was the highlight of my life) and everything just had a warm tint to it. It was like walking through a picture from the 70s. The sun peeks through the leaves in the trees like a candle, instead of an overhead light like in midday.
Then as we got closer to the Fluß, I heard some people chatting calmly, a few were singing. I thought they were sitting on the bank like most people do when we walk by there, but then I realized they were on a boat.
This was like a boat I had never seen. Not a canoe, not a motorboat, not a rowboat. A small farm house/chicken coop/club house painted red and white just like an American farm house (is that the right word?) on top of a large wooden deck.
They reminded me of the Oregon Country Fair. It was a group of women manning the boat, pushing with oars, talking comfortably, and like I said, some were singing (a slow, peaceful river song) too. I sat down on the bank of the river while Holly took a little swim and waited for them to get into my line of sight. When they saw Holly, they stopped singing and someone said "Oh sieh das Hund! Wie süß!"
I didn't want to know what they were actually doing, I wanted to keep them in my mind as traveling gypsies on their house boat, so as soon as I got a good look at them and they got a good look at me, I said "Holly, komm!" and we went on our way.
So what else. After spending 3 weeks at the vacation house and adjusting there, it's been strange and a bit difficult to re-adjust again to our real life. This past week I've been doing mostly house work while Anette's at work; breakfast with the kids, all the dishes, walking holly, feeding holly, vacuuming, ironing.
I've also been reading quite a bit and watching a lot of The Real L Word and Always Sunny in Philadelphia on my computer. Haha.
And it's pouring rain again.
Oh! Also Anette has been teaching me how to drive stick shift in her mini cooper and the other day I drove us to the university in Kiel (about 20 minutes away) and back. I'm so proud of myself! But so we went to the international center at the school and I felt a lot better because school is something that I understand and I was able to talk to the folks at the International Center actually pretty well. They probably just have very sympathetic ears to foreigners like myself.
ANYWAY. I'll be taking a "crash course" for the month of September. It's 6 days a week, with German classes and lots of field trips to Museums and a broadcasting station and other cities in the area like Hamburg and Lümberg. I'm pumped, it'll be great to have a class situation again (which I secretly enjoy), as well as being with a bunch of other folks who don't know anyone here and feel probably just as out of place (or more so) than I do. Fun times!
Today when Anette gets back from work we're going to go visit her parents, who live about 3 hours away. I don't know how long we'll be there (I really don't understand most of what anyone says to me) but I'm excited to see somewhere else and meet some other people that are important in this family's life.
So this was long, but that's that.
Till next time, or what.
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