For the few of you who read my blog you would have noticed that I have not written anything for a while. This has been due to many reasons. The first is that so much happens each day that it is almost too overwhelming to think over everything and then pick out only the most interesting parts. The idea of this blog was never to put EVERYTHING on it. I simply wanted my family and friends to be able to go online (wherever they may be) and read about what I am doing. Well, the first thing you should know is that I am doing very well. I love this city and all that it has to offer. One could say that I am taking complete advantage of this experience. The next think one should know is that over this past month I have been going through lots of changes. I was not really in the right place to write on my blog, because I needed to work things out with myself first. Every time I began to write, it sounded like a diary, but an over emotional and complete waste of time to anyone who would be reading it.
I moved schools about a month ago. I am now attending a full time language school. It is going really well. My German is improving immensely. All the people in my class come from all over the world. That is one thing that I was not exposed to growing up in Santa Barbara, but now I am making friends from different parts of the world (some places I have never heard of). This is defiantly one of my favorite things about Berlin.
My cousin has decided to move to Freiburg. I have been trying to decide whether I am going to stay in Berlin or go with her. Let me just add that Freiburg in on the completely other side of Germany. Freiburg is somewhere someone would move in order to escape from Berlin. Now, I am not trying to escape from Berlin…at all actually, but I have decided to go. No matter how hard I try to explain why, I just cant, but all I know is that it feels right. I suppose that’s a reason within itself. I love Berlin and Germany, I am not sure I ever really want to leave, but I guess I think of it as that I have already taken a big jump by leaving my cozy little community in SB and so I might as well just embrace every opportunity I am offered. And, just because I leave now does not mean that I wouldn’t be able to return. Freiburg to me is just another part of the adventure; and it is so much different than Berlin, but change is what gives one experience and further knowledge . So, now that I have figured things out myself I am able to explain it to those of you are reading my blog, so that you are able to have a clear understanding of what I am experiencing and overcoming.