The ordinary days

            Time continues to fly by faster and faster.  One of my good friends is in Argentina and she has begun her countdown of one hundred days until she goes back to the USA.  My program last about a month longer than hers, but the end is steadily approaching.

            Not a lot has happened since I last blogged.  The excitement and mystery of being in a new country has definitely worn off, and things are now very routine.  Sometimes I feel as if I have lived here forever.  Winter is finally coming to an end and spring is starting to show its face.  Sadly, spring in Germany, brings lots and LOTS of rain.  There has been rain nearly every day, but it’s a nice kind of rain.  It’s not the storms and scary weather that I am used to in Oklahoma; I guess the weather would better be described as gentle showers every day.  I actually don’t mind it at all.

            I have lived with this family for about five months now.  I now know the family dynamics and what everyone’s little pet peeves are.  My host dad can’t stand it if I have any clothes laying on my floor.  I am kind of the “organized chaos” type, and that really irritates him.  With a host family though, there really isn’t a little “give and take” like there would be with your own parents.   You basically just have to do what you are told and if you dont like it, just suck it up.  You can‘t forget that this is their home and despite you being “a part of the family”, you really are a guest.

            In the last week or so, I have been reading a lot.  I love to read, but in the beginning reading in German was too hard and I felt that if i read a book in English I would be cheating.  Thankfully now, I can read in German!  I finished my first book last week and I am working on my second.  It really excites me that my German is good enough to read a normal book.

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