Today. today, today, today.....

So today,

...has been a pretty regular day I must say :)

Therefore, I figured I would take some time to re-cap the gap........in my blog (blog didn't rhyme)

The gap---began end of Jan. and spanned to almost the end of April. What did I do??

Well, beginning Feb, to mid April was semester break! The school system is just completely different here, including semester beginnings and ends. In September I dreamed that during this 2 month break I would somehow find the perfect travel buddy and I would go snowboarding in the Alps for a week, to Spain for a week etc etc.........this did not exactly happen, but! I still had a blast!

Feb--I was in Köln for most of the time.....I did things including going to some friends houses for weekends, getting extremely sick for 3 days straight--->like didn't leave my bed for 3 days kinda sick.....but the best part by far, was when my friends Cara and Angie came to visit me! We met up in PARIS, toured the city for 4 days and then they came back to Köln with me and experienced Karnival (a giant German costume festival) and other things in the city! It was so great to have them here!

March till mid April--> This time was definilty a highlight of the entire year! I lived in Amsterdam for 6 weeks, volunteering at a Christian Hostel there. I got to live with 30 other volunteers from all over the world! We worked around 6 hours a day 6 days a week in the hostel (either cooking in the cafe, cleaning the kitchen, talking to guests, basically just being around to give the hostel a fun environment). I really liked the work, but I think my favourite part with the living situation....it was almost like living in residence again. There was always someone around to go for a run with, shopping, talk, play music or whatever, plus, the international environment made for alot of hilarious jokes interms of people mis-interpreting things in the language and funny accents etc.

I really like the Dutch people too, and I think I might want to do a work and travel thing in Holland sometime! The language is right inbetween English and German, so I could actually understand people....somtimes :)......it just sounds kinda....different....lol. People say german sounds aggresive or really "throaty"...but these people have not heard Dutch!

Anyway, gotta go.....
till next time!
K