January 7, 2008
Tonight I had an orientation meeting with our tutors and I feel both relief and apprehension. Relief? I guess it’s kind of like pushing, pushing, pushing a big rock up a hill (all the preparation), and now I can just watch it roll down the other side. Apprehension? Now that rock is rolling, gathering speed, [...]
December 7, 2007
I really hate asking for stuff, but I have been getting a lot of questions about what we would want if someone wanted to send us a care package, so here’s a post answering those questions! I’ll update when we think of something new we are missing. Something, that is, that you can mail us, [...]
November 22, 2007
The Department of English Language Instructors (DELI)—that includes me and my colleagues—is opening a Language Centre which will provide English language resources for students, one-on-one tutors, plus group “tutorials” (lectures or workshops) on difficult topics. Why am I writing about this on my blog? Because the other DELIs have asked me to coordinate the Language [...]
November 15, 2007
Here is a 10-minute video that Gert took on September 27, the day we arrived here in Giessen. While we were taking a jet-lag-induced nap. :) See us (and ALLLLL our luggage) as we arrive in Frankfurt, and get a tour of our apartment.
November 12, 2007
I am seriously homesick for people. Rob’s sister, Katy, gave me a blank book, my memory book, so that I could have friends and family write notes in it, which I could then read when I got lonely to help me not miss them so much.But it doesn’t work. When I read it, I just [...]
November 2, 2007
I had a great birthday. Even though no one here knew it was my big day, I got so many sweet messages–and even a blog post dedicated to wishing me a happy birthday, with farts and singing orange aliens, nonetheless–from friends and family back home that it really felt like I wasn’t so far away [...]
October 30, 2007
I really do! But I am trying so hard to be “Linden 2.0″ here. One of my biggest problems in America was not managing my time well. I was a terrible procrastinator and I could always find something else to do with my time than what I was supposed to be doing. But nobody here [...]
October 22, 2007
I just got really lonely! Rob’s best friend from “high school” (or “Gymnasium,” as it is called in Deutsch) just stopped by for a visit and they went out for brunch so the apartment was suddenly quiet. Then I logged on and read (and re-read) a few emails and a Facebook message from friends and [...]
October 15, 2007
So I have officially declared October 11, 2007 a Shitty Day. We had planned to go to Frankfurt to get start the process of getting my new passport (more on that in a minute). But we heard Wednesday that the train workers had declared that they would strike Thursday, but thankfully they ended up switching [...]
October 14, 2007
(Pictures coming soon! I’ll post again, hopefully soon, with pictures.) It’s a “two room apartment,” but apparently, they don’t count hallway and balcony space, which is fine by me. There is a long hallway which goes almost the length of the apartment, a bedroom that is just a bit smaller than the one we had [...]
