This Thursday will bring me to my one month marker in my year in Germany. It is crazy to think I have been here for a month already. Although each day does not seem to slip by all that quickly, this month as flown by. Having been here for almost a month I have realize I have learn a lot and yet I still have so much to learn. I have learned to drive a stick shift, to drive on the Autobahn, to use a German/English dictionary, to help run a small ice cream business, to pick the flowers so they will bloom perfectly in your room and most of all I have learned how to keep a farm house clean (no easy feat). The things I have yet to learn are, how to speak German (although I am working on that), how not to get lost all the time, how the train system works in Germany, and many, many more things.
This last months has seen its ups and downs. There have been days where I was ready to pack everything up and come home, and there were days where I was ready to move here forever and never look back. Everyday has been a different experience and a different emotion to follow that experience.
It’s tough knowing that this year I will not be in school. Now for many people this would be a great thing, and a small accomplishment, to dodge another year of sitting in class, but for anyone who knows me, I generally love school. Yes the homework sucks and exams are never fun but overall learning and hanging out with friends seems like a pretty good time to me. Going to school was an obvious and easy option for my 2009-2010 year. Half of me wishes I had stayed back, and was unpacking my things into a dorm and preparing myself for 2-a-day practices at cross country training camp but at the very same time I am so glad that I didn’t take the easy route and go to school. No doubt school would have brought its own challenges and trials but by going to Germany I was guaranteed long, struggling, difficult challenges of size and shape I could not prepare myself for. Coming up on the one month marker I realize I have already overcome a lot of the hard work adapting to a new country and that I am already knee deep in my time in here. I made a decision to come here on my own and now I have to learn to adapt and grow beyond what I already have thus far. From here on in I am leaving my second guesses and wishes back in Canada.
P.S I wish everyone the best of luck going into university, and although I can’t join in with you for frosh week I’ll be at a frosh week of my own, its call Oktoberfest!
Today: make jam, anne, flowers
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