Lord, blessed be your name.
Yesterday, I picked a shirt off the floor and told Jojo, "I think this shirt is dirty." She glared at me and replied, "It's not dirty, it's thirty." Words failed me. I also learned how to play chess this week. I'm 21 and I'd never known how to play it. And now I got taught by 2 children describing all the pieces to me with random German words that I didn't know. Life is weird. But I understand the game now!!! I have yet to beat one of them...one time Johanna killed me with one of her pawns. That was a low moment! School is going really well right now. I'm one of the few people who will actually willingly participate in class, so it gives me a good advantage to practice speaking. The weather is starting to be more like spring which is lovely. I don't like wearing all my winter layers while I bike, it's so irritating! My Alaska bike is doing quite well, I just bought a protector for my tires since I've been getting mud sprayed all over my back. And it's so fun finally riding through the fields on it after all the months of riding through those same fields wishing to be on my own bike. It's quite wonderful!!! Oma (Britta's mom) had surgery on her foot so she's staying at our house right now and I have to say, I'm really enjoying her company! I have someone who I can ramble to in German, and I've surprised myself how much I can pull out of my head! This past week I haven't hardly thought in English!!! During my bike ride today, while the rain poured down upon me as I made my way through the muddy fields, I thought back again to August 2011 and what lengths I've come to in understanding and speaking German. Every time I think about my progress (It's not too often) I'm amazed at how much more I have learned than I thought was possible for me. I speak things that I never learned or studied, but just came out because I heard them over and over until I finally understood how to use them myself. It really beats studying out of a book!!! Although I do that too... but I learn so much more from listening and applying then from any book, to be honest. With that said, I'm really pumped right now about the test in May! Let's hope that lasts over the next few months. :) Tomorrow I'm leaving the house at 9am and riding my bike to Holland. I haven't done it since I've been home, and I'm venturing to Roermond, which will take me much longer than my usual destination. It's gonna be an all day biking trip and I'm sooooooo excited! I haven't taken a weekend to myself in a while. I always think that it'll be so sad and lonely, but when I get on my bike and spend time outside, sit at a cafe and read, and walk through a new city and look around, I find high enjoyment in it all! I think that's very important to be comfortable spending quality time alone. So this weekend is looking pretty bright to me. It's odd, because the past month or two have been filled with a lot of sadness that I'm not accustomed to. And somehow I felt that this blog would turn into a serious, thoughtful string of words, but it's completely opposite. As I keep typing, I'm discovering how incredibly blessed I am and it makes me so thankful.
No comments:
Post a Comment