Since I seem to be puttering around today and not trying to get any work done (well, not at the moment, at least), I will write one of my seems-to-be-monthly posts.
I am completely in the thrall of a nostalgia attack. Kate, someone I know from Purdue, has just started her study abroad experience in Braunschweig. Since I have been helping her how with some stuff, I have been thrown directly back into memories of Braunschweig. Not that I do not think about it nearly every day, but lately it has been worse, reading Kate describe things that I know so well.
It also brings back to me that this time last year (Super Bowl Sunday) I spent the day at my creepy Paten's house watching the Handball World Cup Championship (which was cool, Germany won) and waiting around until way to early in the morning to watch the Colts kill the Bears.
Also bringing me back a year is that a friend of mine from Germany will be visiting in the next couple of weeks. It is still totally weird to me that a year ago I was just starting to get my bearings in Germany. And here I am now, trying not to let Senior Design, Crew and the rest of my classes take over my life. Oh how I wish the American university system was as laid back as the German one. Well, at least during the semester... things get a little crazy when it comes to the all important exam time. But after spending most of my life in Armstrong (the AAE's new building) this past couple weeks and already feeling like the end of the semester should be near, when, in truth, it is only four weeks in, I would love to be able to go out any night of the week- instead of never going out at all.
Oh well, this is just one last push and then it will be all over. (Hallelujah). I just have to survive the next three months or so, and find a job, and things will be better.
And, with all of this work, I have to make time to find that job. I went onsite to interview a couple weeks ago. I was gone for two days and by the time I got back I was so out of the loop that it took me three days to be brought up to speed. Ridiculous!
I have another interview this week, and I have submitted an application to a couple other programmes. Hopefully something will come of some of them. The application was to a European company, and man, would I totally love to be able to go back to Germany.
Wow. This has to be a record for length of post on this particular blog. Hopefully I will find a little more time to write.... Yeah, I know that I have said that before, but, gimme a break, OK?
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