Halloweeeen

Germans are catching on to Halloween. Here you have to be dressed up scary though. Today I was a "dead" Schweinsteiger, because dressing up as a soccer player was not scary enough. Or scary at all. The teachers put on a good show - zombie's, grim reaper, vampire, pippi longstocking, minnie mouse, a cheetah, and a robber to name a few. We had the kids bring in cakes to sell during a dance party and brought in over 300 euros that will go towards outdoor equipment. The dancing was a lot of fun and it was scary how much cake there was being eaten by the little ones. And there was SO MUCH left over. I came home with a sugar high and a stomach ache. My kiddies are out now doing some trick or treating and then we will eat my favorite pumpkin soup. Yummmm..


This weekend my friend Beth was in town and stayed here and we got a lot of shopping in. I really integrated her in and got her to bike ride all around town with me. She did a great job. Woot!

I found 2 winter jackets, jeans, and leggings this weekend. I am a shopping queeeeeeen ever since I put it in my budget. ;)

Pictures of my darling students will probably be available upon request.

lovelovelove

I just got home. I ate a whole bar of Rittersport chocolate in 5 minutes. Then to counteract that sugar I ran downstairs and shoved three fermented garlic cloves in my mouth and made some tea. I have a problem.

My birthday in Heidelberg

Today I didn't work at the camp but helped with the city school library. Yay! Sarah and I met up and had choco croissants and coffee and a french bakery and then walked over to the school to help organize. I will be doing a lot of this same organizing/barcoding at my school next week. Oofti.

Drinks tonight. Tomorrow making pizza at camp and then going to a museum. Busy busy busy.

Pathetic

I have been here for three months and I didn't run in my park Grüneberg until today. Pathetic!! I forced myself to after looking at pinterest and reading all the stuff about exercising. It was a pathetic run, but it was a run none the less. A couple push ups in there and some other do´dads. THEN I was semi awesome and cooked zucchini and eggplant, which I bought bc I thought I needed to introduce some new veggies into my diet. It took a long time, but it tasted good. Wooot.

This week I have been working at a food camp that I am doing with Susanna. It has been supremely laid back and fun with a group of 5 kids. So chill. We did potato art today, made some waffles, walked in the forest and made bow and arrows and watched some videos on how different foods are made. PS. I love Jaime Oliver's Food Revolution. Need to catch up on those episodes. 

There is my quick update. :) Oh, and I ate a bar of chocolate as soon as I got home from school. Oops.

love.

“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” 

"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”


Steve Jobs

beautiful

I could sleep there...

Clearly too lazy to write.

Ok - "quick" update! Random fact - Chocolate is not allowed at our school. Weird. I bring it everyday.

Went to Brussels with Susanna two weeks ago (Friday to Monday) to spend the weekend with some friends of hers from school. Ate a lot of chocolate (chocolate shops EVERYWHERE!!!), waffels smothered in nutella (heavenly!), and other yummies. We wandered the city a lot, eventually could give other directions. :) Her friends were super sweet and we were spoiled. It's a comic book city so a lot of the building sides have cartoons on them. Walked and saw lots of sights - the main square in the city, the Mannequin Pis (fountain of a baby peeing). the anatonium and mini Europe (has 350 miniture models of famous European buildings like the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, etc.).

German wine and Belgian Beer.

Night art event?

At Erin's favorite place in Brussels

Best Doughy Waffels w/ Nutella

The weather was AMAZING. Definitely happy about that since this past weekend was rain rain rain. We went out to a night festival called "Nuit Blanche"- an art festival that runs from 11pm-5am. There was a whole bunch of exhibits throughout the city - many of them were very strange, like whoever made them was on drugs. Yeah? Watched and cheered on the runners in the Brussels Marathon while we walked around. Reminded me of watching the Venice Marathon w/ B and Mom last year. Tender. 

Me in a nutshell.

Melting wax art.

Grand Place.

TinTin!

Anatonium and Mini Europe

 

 

Amsterdam this past week with Hanni, Sarah, and Susanna was pretty awesome in that I got a lot of shopping done. I bought boots!!! Who's proud? Not cheap boots either. Amsterdam has some pretty awesome shopping. We shopped everyday, went to the Rijks Museum, Sex Museum, a Coffee Shop, and walked a lot and shopped a lot. The library is SWEET and has an awesome view of the city. I want to live in that library. The weather was crap pretty much the whole time. Rain, no rain and really cold, more rain. The day we left the sun shined. Ugh. So Frankie is beautiful right now. Just really cold. Yay for warm sweats!!!! peace and love.

Amsterdam Church Cobblestones

the bike that seated four.

Susanna, Sarah, and Me

View from library