All my best thoughts happen on my bike.
60 minutes a day of rushing green and mindpeace.
It turns out I really love metaphors; this week's favourite is The Wizard of Oz, because it crept up on me and I suddenly realised I had been humming to myself on my bike (the Wicked Witch of the West theme, when she's on her bike).
And indeed it started with the bike- looking for a basket for my bike I couldn't help but think how cute a little Toto dog would be in a basket... Maybe for a day :P
Then, on Monday, I went out for hot chocolate in a fancy hotel, where you could see the whole skyline...
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It was pretty great! But the best moment was on my way home (on my bike, again), where I looked back on where I'd cycled and saw my Emerald City lit up! It's amazing, and someday I will actually stop and take a picture. Then I happily travelled home on my yellow brick road.
It was pretty great! But the best moment was on my way home (on my bike, again), where I looked back on where I'd cycled and saw my Emerald City lit up! It's amazing, and someday I will actually stop and take a picture. Then I happily travelled home on my yellow brick road.
It was pretty great! But the best moment was on my way home (on my bike, again), where I looked back on where I'd cycled and saw my Emerald City lit up! It's amazing, and someday I will actually stop and take a picture. Then I happily travelled home on my yellow brick road.
But I've been considering how this all ties up with Dorothy's great desire to go home, and I think I might be the Wicked Witch, because I don't really want to go home!
I'm just generally having a good time and am busy- at work I've been working on social media (follow us), and have been cheering my ass off. I love cheer and I love the team. Yay.
The only thing I'm sad about is that I keep missing stuff! I missed Oktoberfest, I have missed today (!!) the Nacht der Clubs, and I will miss the end of football season in September.I don't know how I will feel by the end of the year, but I really am fascinated by everyday German stuff! I learn new words every day, am baffled by phrases, and stumped when I speak English and find there is a perfect word in German that doesn't translate...Obviously the culture is still quite jarring. Sometimes I feel like people are just rude- but most of all that the coconut saying is true! On our year abroad prep week, I read Germans were hard on the outside, and super soft and lovely and the best friends ever once you get to know them- this is definitely true with almost all people I have got to know.I'm still struggling to tie down any friends at church- I meet a different person every week, and then seem really nice and then I don't see them again! But I'm definitely happy with my choice and am in it for the long haul.
Despite all this, I do think about home the odd time! I have a price alert on flights to Dublin, sending messages that make me wish I could click my heels home instead.Until then, I'll be doing my best to send postcards, and thinking up metaphors for life on my bike.
Bis später!
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