Random thoughts...

just wanted you all to know these things...

i laugh every day...my teammates are awesome and we are all doing a great job given this crazy schedule. we are laughing even though sometimes it is not funny how hard it is to keep up with this program. the initial politeness stage is gone, we are not afraid to sleep and drool in front of each other and we support each other when we are too tired to answer questions or even attempt to appear interested.

the other day we were on a private bus tour and i put on my sunglasses to have a 10 minute snooze because i just could not take in one more piece of information. paul was sitting behind me trying to stay awake himself and he knew darn well i was sleeping...bless him for understanding.

tomorrow will be the half way point. sometimes i can not believe two weeks has passed already and in some ways i can't believe there are still two weeks left!!!

sorry about not being able to post photos....but trust me...i have almost 500 so far...some are beautiful, some are interesting, some i have already forgotten what i was trying to capture, some of them are funny but ALL of them are already precious memories. i can't upload them beacuse they are stored on jasmyn's computer. when i can capture them to a CD...i will upload some for you to see.

you would be so proud of me...i do speak a little bit of really, really bad german when it is absolutely required of me. i am picking a lot up when listening to others and when asking quetions...and i have had to use it when we are in a bier garden, restaurant or store. i must sound like a second grader, but i am proud for even trying...

and speaking of restaurants...i had a HUGE error in ordering lunch the other day. every vacation in a foreign country needs a gastronomical error and i had mine!! i ordered a cheese and sausage plate...sounds pretty good, right??? well...you and i are both wrong! it came to the table and it was blood sausage (i have never seen anything so scary looking on a plate!!) and liverwurst sausage and some other bright red dried sausage/beef jerky looking stuff...and the cheese...all of it smelled unrecognizable and one of the cheeses tasted like a barn/stable. it was pretty bad. i drank my beer though...and it was good.

i am leaving Alsfeld in the morning and i have loved it here. my host mother here was really, really a special lady named brigitte. she hosted both jeniece and i and we were treated like the absolute divas that we are!!! thank you brigitte!!! she was the first woman in her rotary club...there are not many woman involved as rotarians and it is high time women like her be included!!

auf wiedersehen Alsfeld and hallo Kronberg/Frankfurt!! i will be there for a week and will touch base as i have the chance.

love to all my beloved blog readers! i miss you all!