- Drinking off milk for three days. I thought it was just weird Swiss milk.. - Making a snowman called Roy - Meeting someone who swears as much as I would like to – a local named Vasha. She also fed me YUMMY indian food. - Trying locally brewed (like across the road) Monstein Bier.. I like it! - Playing with the Gerbils - Finally getting Rosetta Stone to work on my computer - Eating lots of cheese - Taking photo’s and video’s of the town - Successfully interacting with someone in Deutsch (a 10 year old.. Still counts!) - Getting smiled at by an attractive Swiss man. No idea who he was though.. - Going Skiing in Davos! Only falling down once! - Going shopping with Nat in Davos. Having time to actually hang out with her a bit. - Reading ‘The Wise Woman’ by George Macdonald with the girls every night. - Being forced to really rely on God to help me not stress. - The weekend off.
Lowlights include: - Missing Trumpet a LOT. - Feeling out of my depth. - Feeling discouraged about my poor German language skills.
BUT these lowlights are but little droplets in an ocean of awesome highlights! So all is quite well
I’ve uploaded this video of me walking around Monstein and stuff. It’s not really very interesting but it at least gives you a chance to see what the town looks like a bit. I just wish it wasn’t quite so shaky.
I’m on the plane now. It only took me 10hours to find the powerpoint to plug the laptop in. I just woke up actually. They dimmed the lights at about 2am. I woke up from a dark and silent dream where the plane was shaking and the oxygen masks had just started dropping from the ceiling… Woke up in a fully lit cabin by an air hostess’ gentle tap on the shoulder, mouthing words I couldn’t hear. Ear plugs. Would I like breakfast? 10 second pause while I remember who and where I am. Yes please. I just slept for 8 hours! Sitting up! How did I even do that??
I’m on the plane now. It only took me 10hours to find the powerpoint to plug the laptop in. I just woke up actually. They dimmed the lights at about 2am. I woke up from a dark and silent dream where the plane was shaking and the oxygen masks had just started dropping from the ceiling… Woke up in a fully lit cabin by an air hostess’ gentle tap on the shoulder, mouthing words I couldn’t hear. Ear plugs. Would I like breakfast? 10 second pause while I remember who and where I am. Yes please. I just slept for 8 hours! Sitting up! How did I even do that??
I was looking through my browser history just now, trying to find this documentary I started watching last night called “Faster than the speed of light” and it was kind of interesting seeing the different places I went on the internets in these last 24 hours. So listed here are the sites I visited or things I googled.
I was looking through my browser history just now, trying to find this documentary I started watching last night called “Faster than the speed of light” and it was kind of interesting seeing the different places I went on the internets in these last 24 hours. So listed here are the sites I visited or things I googled.
One week today I will be getting on a plane and heading towards Europe. I feel utterly and dangerously unprepared.. I need to clean up my room for Rhi to move in. I need to decide what to take and what to leave. I need to find out how heavy my luggage can be. Do I change money into Euros before I go? How do I do that? Should I really take a sleeping bag? It’s so big! When will my citi bank visa card thing arrive? How will I get from the airport to Kylie’s house? Where do I buy train tickets? Did I pay too much for insurance? Should I get a simcard for my phone while I am over there? What if I get stuck without internet access? Should I take my guitar? What if it gets damaged? And my camera? Should I take both lenses or just one? Just how cold will it be over there? Should I bring gloves? Do I have enough money? etc etc etc…
I guess part of the definition of ‘Adventure’ must include it all being scary and risky. But also FUN!
One week today I will be getting on a plane and heading towards Europe. I feel utterly and dangerously unprepared.. I need to clean up my room for Rhi to move in. I need to decide what to take and what to leave. I need to find out how heavy my luggage can be. Do I change money into Euros before I go? How do I do that? Should I really take a sleeping bag? It’s so big! When will my citi bank visa card thing arrive? How will I get from the airport to Kylie’s house? Where do I buy train tickets? Did I pay too much for insurance? Should I get a simcard for my phone while I am over there? What if I get stuck without internet access? Should I take my guitar? What if it gets damaged? And my camera? Should I take both lenses or just one? Just how cold will it be over there? Should I bring gloves? Do I have enough money? etc etc etc…
I guess part of the definition of ‘Adventure’ must include it all being scary and risky. But also FUN!
I’m sorry, but does anybody else find this picture of Kevin Rudd on the SMH website hilarious? Look at those shifty, shifty eyes… Oh The Media, you make me laugh sometimes.
My jaw hurts from practicing doing troll face in the mirror this morning.. I had it really good for like 20 seconds but then I lost it!
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Ok I actually started that post like 2 days ago and then I ran out of things to say. Guess what? I’m going to Europe in 15 days! So unorganised.. Oh man. It all seems to big and hard. I just want to sleep and read. But that’s actually really BORING!
Words that are stuck in my head at the moment for no discernable reason:
I’m really really tired hey.. It’s so good to finally have some work to do, but holy moly the holidays have made me soft and I’m totally buggered. I’m out in the hunter valley picking grapes for about 8 hours a day and it’s actually pretty fun and easy work, but it also means waking up at 4:45am for a 6:00 start and a bit of a drive to get there. The people there are all really friendly and pretty great and there are loads of interesting backpacker characters, some of whom sing loud rowdy songs that remind me of chants at a soccer match. All in all it’s a very positive experience! Just tiring though. Day off tomorrow which is nice.
Listening to ‘Till we have faces’ by C.S Lewis at the moment. It’s really good in a tragedy sort of way. I feel a lot of grief for humanity’s stubbornness as I hear it.. and I’ve found myself aching for goodness and fullness too. I’m interested to see where it takes me next.
