Well, I've settled in nicely over the last month (Yikes! A month already!!), which includes catching 2 colds in the last 2 weeks and a lingering chest cough. There is a running joke between Georg and I, that I was on a Grandma's breakfast - at one point I was taking 6 pills!! That is one thing that I have noticed...there is medication for everything! Sinus relief pills, cough suppressants, nasal sprays, throat mucus dislodging pills...whatever happened to the good old boiling water and salt in a bowl with a towel over your head??
Although I have yet to find friends over here, I am quite a busy body when I want to be. I have joined the choir (over 30 people, they sound amazing!), am helping out with the local Scouts group once in awhile (similar to Scouts in N Am, but more focused on group interaction than skill learning), have a weekly Deutsch class at the local Volkshochschule (school for the public, teaches numerous languages and many levels, among other things), and have started playing squash! Georg, a friend, and his sister and her boyfriend play squash, so I was invited out last week to try it. Pretty fun game, but very fast. I have a lot to learn! Also, I hear that there is a rink in town, so I might try out skating for the first time this season later this week. :) Oh, and I have taken up knitting (Grandma, you will be proud!).
Despite all these things that I am involved with, I have found a good routine. I get up at 6:30 every morning, bike to the farm (5 km) or drive over with Georg, have breakfast with the Maas family, help Maria (Georg's Mom) around the house or with her business until lunch, have lunch with the family and then bike home (to our apartment). I have a nap, job hunt on the internet (I'm searching for a better-paying, more hours position, but am having little luck), and then either work on my thesis corrections (although I'm pretty good at procrasinating) or walk around Geldern. Georg is home at 7:30 for supper and then we do our activities or spend time together. It is seeding time right now (they plant a lot of winter crops) and that, along with the fact that Willi (Georg's Dad) broke his foot, I am not actually seeing Georg very much...which is lonely...but I am doing okay.
Will try to post some pics on here. I really haven't been taking too many pictures, just because everything is the 'every day' for me, and I keep forgetting to take pictures!
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