- Buy a box.
- Sort through stuff to send.
- Pack stuff.
So essentially I could do all the stuff in the sub-list and not actually do what I'm supposed to do. It makes me feel productive without actually being productive. Everyone's gotta find their style.
Anyway, here's my To Do List, but without the misleading sub lists:
- Sort through books and clothes and figure out what needs to be sent home. Then cry when I have to pay the 50 Euros per box - in CASH (damn you, Germany!).
- Visit: Münster, Aachen and Köln.
- Take some more photos of Altena.
- Take a photo of the year 5 class I've been visiting/teaching.
- Finish assignments and crap. Argh.
- Return library books. Pay fines. Grrr.
- Take schein forms to the teachers to fill in. You know, so I can actually prove I went to their classes.
- Buy presents for everyone.
- Buy presents for ME.
Can't think of anything else, but hopefully I'll cross out everything from this list. Otherwise it's not going to be fun. I can't believe how quickly this last month has gone. It's bitter-sweet. The homesickness finally wore off after Christmas, helped largely by my fabulous trip to Trieste, and just when I've finally settled in I've got to pack up and leave.
And I finally went out again last weekend, thanks to my friend Kate. It was a little surreal because we ended the night at a club for the farewell of Kate's friend who was going back to Newcastle. So weird. Have I mentioned that I met Kate when she did and exchange in Newcastle uni? One of the other German girls she went over to Newy with started dating a guy who came over here with her and lived here the last year. Now he's going back.
AND I might be going out this Friday night again. That will make it my 4th time in Germany. And I'm going to a restaurant on Saturday night. I wish I was lying when I said that it's my first time in Germany actually going out for dinner (apart from when travelling and such). It's been a long six months.