Skylar and I will be spending five months (May - October) in Heilbronn, Germany with as much additional travel as we can. Here I will post updates and pictures from our adventures.

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Tuesday, June 2, 2009

2 Juni - Coffee and sunshine


By next Monday I need to have an almost finished product for Wendelin.  Every time I think I have found useful information, I find another source that says how it isn't the case anymore and due to the reform act of so and so, it is like this now... until the next reform act and I can't seem to compile the latest policies based of the latest reforms.  

I tried to work from home today because Skylar has no school and Betreuung is not offered this week, but it is just hard to get motivated to work when laying in bed.  I haven't drank coffee for about 2 years now, but for some reason the way they make it here is tempting.  It's not that much different and maybe I'm just making excuses, but I tried a caffeine fix anyway.  All it did was make me feel ill and dizzy though.  So I tried to go outside for some vitamin D... but all that vitamin D was keeping me from being able to see my screen very well.  

We decided to head to town to run some errands.  I finally found a yarn store through a blog about knitting adventures in Europe and they had a entry about Germany.  Seems I'm not the only one who had difficulty locating a yarn store around here.  I even learned the word Stricken (knitting) so I could ask about it, but had no luck thus far.  I didn't think to pack a supply of yarn.  It has become such a soothing low intensity hobby for me though that I was beginning to miss it. 

The woman at the yarn store kept talking to me even though I told her I couldn't speak German and she responded that she couldn't speak English.  I would take this to mean that I would just have to figure things out out on my own, but she insisted on being helpful.  At one point she took half the yarn out of my arms and started talking and gesturing back and forth.  I just said ok and took my yarn back and she shook her head and walked off.  I'm not sure if I insulted her or what.

2 comments:

Dusty Dog said...

Skylar, beautiful photo!!

Keep shooting!

Samara said...

That's a gorgeous photo, Skylar! Great job!