Remember how lucky you are, cherish everything and everyone

Today I haven't quite been myself. My boyfriend went back to the UK yesterday and I've found it hard to be alone again. But something happened today, just about an hour ago, that really made me realise how lucky I am, and how I really have very little reason to be "depressed".


Today an a girl I know, she's a friend of a friend...well she was riding on the same bus as me. Me and my friend went over to sit with her and her friends (sorry for the repetition of the f word, I'm still a little shakey from all this). Well the girl received a phone call, we didn't think anything of it, we carried on talking. Then we noticed her voice had gone odd, we looked over and her mouth was wide open. She burst into tears and cried "my brother is dead". We all went white. I almost started crying myself. 


Her Brother had been in some sort of accident before Christmas, but everything was looking up. He had moved back home and was making tonnes of progress. She wasn't expecting him to....die...not now. I wanted to say something, I wanted to hug her, I wanted to tell her it was all a lie and that of course he's fine. 
I can still hear her begging "daddy this isn't real is it?"


I feel so selfish, for my behaviour today. Everyone I love, although they are not here with me in Germany, are still here for me. For that I should be grateful. And I truly am. I do not know what real lose feels like. I wish this was all a nightmare, for her sake. She's such a lovely girl, she didn't deserve this. Not now, not when she is so far away from home. All of my thoughts right now are with her and her family, and I ask dear readers that yours are too. 

My Laptop is getting there (hopefully) and recap of my week

It's been over a week now since my laptop decided to die on me. Surprisingly I haven't missed it too much. I've been fortunately quite busy this week so I haven't had much time to waste trolling around on the internet. 
I've really missed blogging though :(


I've managed to get it work to some extent now, so I'm hoping by tomorrow everything will be loaded back on.


This weekend of the second part of my lost weekend saga. The content of this weekend's block seminar was more useful than last week's, but the long days took there toll on me and I really could not be bothered with them. Nevertheless, being the goody-two-shoes that I am, I didn't skip class. I did observe some randomness that I feel are blog worthy. 
a. On Saturday I chose the vegetarian option at the Mensa for lunch. It was a plate of vegetables! The cheek of it. To make things worse, it wasn't even a god selection of veg, I had a plate consisting of cauliflower and potatoes. 
b. The toilets adjacent to our classroom were out of order so we had to use the ones on the floor above. There were only two cubicles but one was permanently locked with a large sign on the door saying "Personal". Now I don't know if this means that someone has bagged the cubicle for themselves and won't share, or if the university think that it should be used by staff only (Personal can also mean Personnel), but I did find it funny. 


I haven't made much progress work-wise this week. My boyfriend came to visit for a week on Sunday so I'm trying my best to keep him entertained. We went to Dusseldorf yesterday which was nice. I'm really going to need to pick up the pace next week though. The deadlines and my departure are getting very very close. 


Tomorrow is my 21st Birthday and I don't really feel like doing my celebrating. I think being away from my family for such a special day is really putting a downer on it. I'm hoping I can fit in a skyping session with my parents at some point during the day and me and my Boyfriend are going to go to a very nice cafe in Marburg for some fancy cake. 


So next type I blog I will be a whole year older and a whole lot wiser. 

Word of the Day 21/01/11

Today’s word of the day:die Fehlermeldung

Direct translation: The mistake report

English translation: Bluescreen

Example: Mein Laptop bekam eine Fehlermeldung und ist jetyt kaput.

~ HATE technology ~

HATE the blue screen of death!

My laptop is dead!

Around midday on Wednesday I restarted my laptop and when it tried to reload the blue screen appeared and now it is well and truely KAPUT. 

My dad is going to send me some disks so that I can attempt to wipe the hard drive and reload the software. If not then I will have to send the laptop home for him to sort out.

So God knows when I'm going to have a portable computer again!

So please bare with me, obviously I won't be able to blog as frequently as before and also forgive any spelling mistakes in my posts, you know I have difficulties with these German keyboards and there is no English spellchecker on these things. 

I guess on the plus side at least I'll get more work done now.

Baskets not Bags

One thing that always makes me say "awwww" in my head, is when I'm out and about in town and I see someone, man or woman, carrying a little wicker basket.

It's something that I've never seen at home. It's rare enough to see people with their own carrier bags, let alone carrying a basket or Korb as they call them here.
They are just so sweet. They always remind me of fairytales like Little Red Riding Hood. I really had no idea that people actually use such things. Marburg is by no means an urban jungle like Frankfurt, but it is also no traditional, sound of music style utopia like Baveria and Austria. 
I'm really tempted to buy one and use it to collect my green clubcard points next time I'm in Tesco. In fact I think it'd look great with my Dirndl. :)

Oh Gott, I just google Körbchen to find an image of a basket but ended up with a page of breasts...supposidly Körbchen not only means small basket but also a woman's cupsize. You have been warned.  

The lost weekend part one

I’ve been unfortunate enough to have had lessons both yesterday (Saturday) and today. Not just one lesson, but 7 and a half hours of lessons with just one hour break for lunch.

Whoever came up with this time table is a mean, mean person. AND I missed a party at the Schloss because of it! Probably my only chance to party up there has been snatched away from me by my geekiness.

The class is called Wissenschaftliches Schreiben. It’s an intensive course to prepare foreign students for giving presentations and writing Hausarbeit (long academic essays). The class is really helpful but it also takes a lot out of you.

Luckily the class only runs from this week until next Sunday so this time next week I will be free.

I am ridiculously tired out though. I need to do some work but all my body wants to do is sleep. Its only 18.54 here. That’s a little early don’t you think?

I cannot wait for my day off on Wednesday.

Word of the Day 15/01/2011

Today’s word of the day:der Streber

Direct translation: The ambitious person

English translation: Geek/Nerd

Example: Mensch! Es gibt immer so viele Sterber in der Bib.

~ This weekend I will be the Streberin ~