Keeping my mind occupied and filled with new ideas and projects and taking action is important to me. I love to feel like I am wanted and needed (even though at times it can be a bit much). Before I left for Germany, I had a wash of projects that I wanted to tackle but I decided to put them on the back burner until returned home. Now that I am back home, I have zero excuse to start them. They include the following and have occupied a lot of my time and energy the last few days.
-Volunteering. I am zeroing in on adult literacy. I find great satisfaction in helping others and I have more patience with adults than children. Also, the skills I attain from volunteering at such places are transferable and will help me in my long and short term goals.
-Taking German classes. If you read this blog in a regular basis, you will know that I am super enthusiastic about returning and living in Germany for a longer stretch of time. After thinking it through I am not too sure if I would return to the south…if I was given a choice. Even though I LOVE Swabia, I believe it would be really interesting and educational to live in the North or West (no East for me though). But, I will take whatever I get. As long as I can live in that wonderful country again for at least a year, I am good.
-Starting on my second degree. I will not try to kill myself and finish it anytime soon. I will take one class per semester until I feel that my German is okay enough to stop and then increase to two classes a week (unless I happen to be living in another country).
During my research, I saw that applicants had to do a fair amount of external work in order to be accepted in the program. This was not a big problem but more of a headache and a time waster for me. However, after chatting with a friend of mine about possibly using my part time job as a jumping off point, I contacted the program coordinator who approved my request. Now I don’t have to do the extra hours because, technically, I already and continue to do them! This was and is great news. I was going to apply before I left for Europe but left it until now. I have time so I will get that out asap.
-After moving out, I have to plan out how I will save $2000.00 a month so that when I do decide to buy my own home, I will have a sizeable down payment and a nice cushion of emergency funds in the bank.
Along with selling my house, which is back on the market by the way and doing well in showings, I will have a full plate. I will slowly start moving out to alleviate some of the stress on the actual move out day (gosh, I am already dreading this). Along with the house situation, I still have to sell some pieces of furniture (I think I might have one buyer for my table set and another hopefully my day bed – which never thought to sell but it makes sense to get rid of), apply to school (part time basis), find out about volunteering which is a surprisingly difficult progress. Come September I will not be too happy but I know I can manage it all.
-Volunteering. I am zeroing in on adult literacy. I find great satisfaction in helping others and I have more patience with adults than children. Also, the skills I attain from volunteering at such places are transferable and will help me in my long and short term goals.
-Taking German classes. If you read this blog in a regular basis, you will know that I am super enthusiastic about returning and living in Germany for a longer stretch of time. After thinking it through I am not too sure if I would return to the south…if I was given a choice. Even though I LOVE Swabia, I believe it would be really interesting and educational to live in the North or West (no East for me though). But, I will take whatever I get. As long as I can live in that wonderful country again for at least a year, I am good.
-Starting on my second degree. I will not try to kill myself and finish it anytime soon. I will take one class per semester until I feel that my German is okay enough to stop and then increase to two classes a week (unless I happen to be living in another country).
During my research, I saw that applicants had to do a fair amount of external work in order to be accepted in the program. This was not a big problem but more of a headache and a time waster for me. However, after chatting with a friend of mine about possibly using my part time job as a jumping off point, I contacted the program coordinator who approved my request. Now I don’t have to do the extra hours because, technically, I already and continue to do them! This was and is great news. I was going to apply before I left for Europe but left it until now. I have time so I will get that out asap.
-After moving out, I have to plan out how I will save $2000.00 a month so that when I do decide to buy my own home, I will have a sizeable down payment and a nice cushion of emergency funds in the bank.
Along with selling my house, which is back on the market by the way and doing well in showings, I will have a full plate. I will slowly start moving out to alleviate some of the stress on the actual move out day (gosh, I am already dreading this). Along with the house situation, I still have to sell some pieces of furniture (I think I might have one buyer for my table set and another hopefully my day bed – which never thought to sell but it makes sense to get rid of), apply to school (part time basis), find out about volunteering which is a surprisingly difficult progress. Come September I will not be too happy but I know I can manage it all.
3 comments:
you have a full plate! You will definitely be busy in September but I know you will be able to manage it no problem.
Yup, you're so organized and disciplined; I'm sure you'll figure out a way to make it all work!
We are living in SE Europe right now, but I'm trying to lead into something for us to live in Germany or Austria for a while during our time here! I lived there for a couple of years many moons ago. It's a wonderful part of the world, und die deutsche Sprache ist doch herrlich, finde ich! There's no insurance that we can make it happen (I'm a student) but we will try like crazy. Good luck in your efforts!
Jerry
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