tentative assertions.
I'm home! kind of. most of the time.
I'm probably going to be dragged off this weekend by my parents to a parish retreat for a parish that only really knows me as their daughter. As I don't really find that appealling or fun, and am throroughly fed up with packing up and leaving every few days, I don't really want to go. I don't think I have much of a choice. (passive aggression is fun.)
Then the following week we go up north for a week of sailing. I do want to go on this trip, so that's ok. but I won't be home.
After that, it's just weekends of being a crazy french cook at MRF. Yes, I have a part! and I get money! (although I'd do this for no money, the poor student in me is happy with it).
Also, I'll be cooking for my sister's organic farm kitchen business, teaching myself french and practicing cello. a lot. That's about it. The horseback riding seems to have fallen through (most frustratingly) for this summer, since after about 10 phone calls with none returned, I'm giving up. THe problem with horse people is that they tend not to be great at the business end of things. le sigh. maybe next summer.
Germany was great/hard. Mostly it was wonderful to spend time with really good friends and be back in a country I love, but there were some interesting moments (going to a rave with 5 young men I didn't know, and having to leave by myself, because they ignored the fact that I was falling asleep on my feet at 4:30am), and some awkward/difficult ones (seeing Schmiddn at the wedding). I always felt like I needed more time with each of my friends, or in the case of Salzburg, to see the sights, but at the same time, I felt like I was imposing, and I couldn't have afforded a longer trip. And it's rough to live out of a suitcase for so long, and to pick up and leave every few days.
But don't get me wrong, I loved it. I just need to be able to divide myself into enough peices so that I could be everywhere at once. Chicago, Ann Arbor, various places in Germany, England, one part just travelling the world... I guess I'd need to have one part that just worked all the time to fund the others...
I'm probably going to be dragged off this weekend by my parents to a parish retreat for a parish that only really knows me as their daughter. As I don't really find that appealling or fun, and am throroughly fed up with packing up and leaving every few days, I don't really want to go. I don't think I have much of a choice. (passive aggression is fun.)
Then the following week we go up north for a week of sailing. I do want to go on this trip, so that's ok. but I won't be home.
After that, it's just weekends of being a crazy french cook at MRF. Yes, I have a part! and I get money! (although I'd do this for no money, the poor student in me is happy with it).
Also, I'll be cooking for my sister's organic farm kitchen business, teaching myself french and practicing cello. a lot. That's about it. The horseback riding seems to have fallen through (most frustratingly) for this summer, since after about 10 phone calls with none returned, I'm giving up. THe problem with horse people is that they tend not to be great at the business end of things. le sigh. maybe next summer.
Germany was great/hard. Mostly it was wonderful to spend time with really good friends and be back in a country I love, but there were some interesting moments (going to a rave with 5 young men I didn't know, and having to leave by myself, because they ignored the fact that I was falling asleep on my feet at 4:30am), and some awkward/difficult ones (seeing Schmiddn at the wedding). I always felt like I needed more time with each of my friends, or in the case of Salzburg, to see the sights, but at the same time, I felt like I was imposing, and I couldn't have afforded a longer trip. And it's rough to live out of a suitcase for so long, and to pick up and leave every few days.
But don't get me wrong, I loved it. I just need to be able to divide myself into enough peices so that I could be everywhere at once. Chicago, Ann Arbor, various places in Germany, England, one part just travelling the world... I guess I'd need to have one part that just worked all the time to fund the others...