Today as I was walking along, after writing that last blog...other things just kept popping into my mind, so I wanted to continue the list so
#1. I can look back and remember these things!
#2. hopefully one day I can write about them to :)
SO, more things that I would love to blog about
10. The lady that works at the "Shoppers Drugmart" called "DM" here......she is probably the most perkiest German person I have and will EVER meet! Sometimes....(like today) I wanted a study break and decided I needed to buy hair elastics, so I got to go to DM and go through the ladies line. Just the way she says "hi", "bye" and "how would you like to pay for that?"......sounds like she's just so glad to see you and this interaction is the most exciting thing in the world.....LOVE her!
11. I'm going to be accompanying my friend Greta who plays the saxaphone! Its the first time I've ever accompanied another instrumentalist! The music is really long and hard, but I'm looking forward to this experience, I hope I learn alot!
12. I'm so excited that two of my friends from Waterloo and coming to visit me in February! We're going to spend 4 days traveling Paris and then they'll come back to my place for 5 days! WOOO HOOO!
13. I can not believe that I am wrapping up my first semester here. This week and next week I have some tests and then its all done! Time has flown! 5-ish more months only!
ok I think that is all now :)
Monday, January 19, 2009
Poor Blog
My poor, poor little Blog....
It's so lonely and forgotten.
I'm sorry to my 6 bog readers....I'm sure by now the number has dwindled down to 2 lol
I've just had kein Lust (no want) for posting. Everyday there's a million things that I think about that I think "Oh man! I wish I was still writing my blog cause that would be totally fun to talk about!".....but then I just never do.....I don't know why.
On the upside, I guess I've discovered I could never be a newspaper writer, where you have to write everyday (Sorry Aunt Ruth, I can't try and follow your legacy.....may be Jake or Ava will be up for the challenge :)
Things I would write about and hope to one day are.......
1. My German class.....very funny sometimes. I picture us in a movie, something sorta like The Breakfast Club......what do you get when you have 2 French, 1 Spanien, 1 Belgium, 3 Japanese, 3 Chinese, 2 Israelis, an aweful German prof.....oh and 1 Canadian!
.........you guessed it, my German class lol
2. My choir weekend that was from Jan 4-6.......had a blast!! I can't say enough about the people, the castle we stayed in and the music we make!
3. My choir concert! It was an amazing performance and we were joined by a Finnish accapella group that did the second half of the concert......they won the all European accapella competition the last 2 years......let me just say, UNBELIEVABLE! (Rojaton-look them up on youtube)
4. The fact that my roomates leave their food to get moldy and dishes everywhere in the kitchen, poor Cara has heard me vent.
5. How much I love playing volleyball here and its so great that I can play 3 times a week!!
6. My latest little friend from Guatemala! I met him at volleyball, he's about 5 foot 5 and is a phenomenal player! We get along real great and hopefully he will be a travel buddy for me.
7. The fact that I have good days and bad days here, days where I'm real homesick and days that I really enjoy what I'm doing and learning.
8. The fact that I miss all of you like crazy and know I will be ever so happy to reunite one day!
9. ....ok I must go practice the piano.
I love you! and keep checkin in here! I'm gunna try and be a better blogger again! a late new years resolution I guess you could say.
LOVE
K
It's so lonely and forgotten.
I'm sorry to my 6 bog readers....I'm sure by now the number has dwindled down to 2 lol
I've just had kein Lust (no want) for posting. Everyday there's a million things that I think about that I think "Oh man! I wish I was still writing my blog cause that would be totally fun to talk about!".....but then I just never do.....I don't know why.
On the upside, I guess I've discovered I could never be a newspaper writer, where you have to write everyday (Sorry Aunt Ruth, I can't try and follow your legacy.....may be Jake or Ava will be up for the challenge :)
Things I would write about and hope to one day are.......
1. My German class.....very funny sometimes. I picture us in a movie, something sorta like The Breakfast Club......what do you get when you have 2 French, 1 Spanien, 1 Belgium, 3 Japanese, 3 Chinese, 2 Israelis, an aweful German prof.....oh and 1 Canadian!
.........you guessed it, my German class lol
2. My choir weekend that was from Jan 4-6.......had a blast!! I can't say enough about the people, the castle we stayed in and the music we make!
3. My choir concert! It was an amazing performance and we were joined by a Finnish accapella group that did the second half of the concert......they won the all European accapella competition the last 2 years......let me just say, UNBELIEVABLE! (Rojaton-look them up on youtube)
4. The fact that my roomates leave their food to get moldy and dishes everywhere in the kitchen, poor Cara has heard me vent.
5. How much I love playing volleyball here and its so great that I can play 3 times a week!!
6. My latest little friend from Guatemala! I met him at volleyball, he's about 5 foot 5 and is a phenomenal player! We get along real great and hopefully he will be a travel buddy for me.
7. The fact that I have good days and bad days here, days where I'm real homesick and days that I really enjoy what I'm doing and learning.
8. The fact that I miss all of you like crazy and know I will be ever so happy to reunite one day!
9. ....ok I must go practice the piano.
I love you! and keep checkin in here! I'm gunna try and be a better blogger again! a late new years resolution I guess you could say.
LOVE
K
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Catholic Cathedrals and Christmas Eve
Well Christmas has definitely been real different, but definitely also really great! Me and my mom cooked a scrumptious Christmas dinner on the eve. I mean this food was Amazing!! Shrimp, special German noodles, salad, roasted eggplant, Champaign etc! After the deliciousness, we called my dad and talked to him for a bit, its me and my mom’s first Christmas apart from the papa bear ☺
So, because I live 10 minutes away from Europe’s biggest Gothic Cathedral, we decided we would attend the Midnight Mass. After reading up about it and talking to
Tourist Information, we found out doors opened at 11pm, but its good to get there at 10ish in order to get seats.
At promptly 11, the doors opened and we were part of a mosh-pit-ish crowd, funneling into the majestic doors of the Dom Cathedral. We got our seats surrounded by thousands of other people attending this service. This was the first full scale Catholic mass I’ve ever attended, and I found it really interesting.
The organ music was great! The 120 person choir sounded like an assembly of angels, singing and praying was all good but……..the one thing we decided we could real easily do without is the incense!
Its hard to actually explain the enormacity that is this church. Its just sooooo tall and wide. We estimated 12 of our churches could fit inside this one……and the amount of incense that was goin on in this building still had everyone chocking!!
When I got home I researched they use/symbolism of the incense in the Catholic church and found that it symbolizes prayers going up to heaven, and it symbolically cleanses the people in the church. Interesting and powerful when you see floating up, but maybe the guy at the front could just give the burning smelly stuff one good shake and then stop?...instead of whirling his arm off?
The Mass ended around 1:45am and we were into bed by 2…..probably the latest I’ve ever stayed up on Christmas eve. But as I mentioned in a previous blog, Santa doesn’t do his round in Germany on the 24th, so I didn’t have to worry about going to sleep early so he could come.
So there ya have it. Christmas 2008, in a different country, in a different language, in a different Church, but still with part of my family! This weekend we’re also going to see my relatives for a couple nights, so we’ll get a couple bigger family gatherings in yet too.
Fröliche Weihnachten and Merry Christmas!!
So, because I live 10 minutes away from Europe’s biggest Gothic Cathedral, we decided we would attend the Midnight Mass. After reading up about it and talking to
Tourist Information, we found out doors opened at 11pm, but its good to get there at 10ish in order to get seats.At promptly 11, the doors opened and we were part of a mosh-pit-ish crowd, funneling into the majestic doors of the Dom Cathedral. We got our seats surrounded by thousands of other people attending this service. This was the first full scale Catholic mass I’ve ever attended, and I found it really interesting.
The organ music was great! The 120 person choir sounded like an assembly of angels, singing and praying was all good but……..the one thing we decided we could real easily do without is the incense!
Its hard to actually explain the enormacity that is this church. Its just sooooo tall and wide. We estimated 12 of our churches could fit inside this one……and the amount of incense that was goin on in this building still had everyone chocking!!
When I got home I researched they use/symbolism of the incense in the Catholic church and found that it symbolizes prayers going up to heaven, and it symbolically cleanses the people in the church. Interesting and powerful when you see floating up, but maybe the guy at the front could just give the burning smelly stuff one good shake and then stop?...instead of whirling his arm off?
The Mass ended around 1:45am and we were into bed by 2…..probably the latest I’ve ever stayed up on Christmas eve. But as I mentioned in a previous blog, Santa doesn’t do his round in Germany on the 24th, so I didn’t have to worry about going to sleep early so he could come.
So there ya have it. Christmas 2008, in a different country, in a different language, in a different Church, but still with part of my family! This weekend we’re also going to see my relatives for a couple nights, so we’ll get a couple bigger family gatherings in yet too.
Fröliche Weihnachten and Merry Christmas!!
Ich habe meine Mutter!
Yesterday, I went to the airport to holt meine Mutter ab. (pick-up my mom). And oh what wonderful day! The hug we shared when she came out of the “Arrivals” gate was priceless. As we waited for our train we shared the comment that it seems like we had seen each last week. Its crazy how time can fly by, but love stays.
SO, last night once we got settled in, I took her to three different Weihnachtsmarkts and we shared Glühwein , food and spazieren (talking). I feel really grown-up to have my mother come and visit me at my apartment in Europe! I feel like I should be 30 instead of 21.
Anyway, I can’t wait to spend this week with her! There’s just tons of shopping, talking and catching up to do AND it’s the greatest cause I get to do it with my mom!!
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