Hello all! Well, this has been a ..... few weeks. Not quite sure what exactly to call them. I have plenty of pictures I just haven't put them on my computer yet, so I will do a later blog of only pictures so as to catch up on my major slacking! Terribly sorry!
Well, there were about four days where I could not get out of bed without feeling like I was about to.... well, I was sick so I will just let you know that it was a stomach infection and I won't go any further. I could not eat anything other than pretzels and dry bread and LOTS of water. I think I watched about four movies a day, I fell asleep through half of them, but it was a nice little Disney marathon. I also started watching Friends. It still surprises me sometimes when I think that I am living the dream! Well, a dream, one of my many.
I have gotten to talk to so many friends back home and it is so fantastic to hear their voices again!!! Also, made me cry at some points. I think I could have sat for hours and talked to them like we used to except for the fact that we used to have coffee while having long talks and it is usually about 11pm when I get to talk to them. I don't mind to drink coffee that late if in fact I will be writing a very long essay or I am VERY interested in a book, or if I don't have to wake up the following day until noon! Sadly, I am feeling a bit old as of late, but hopefully that will pass as soon as fall actually comes and there is no Cleveland weather of 50 degrees one day followed by 80 the next.
Speaking of cold weather!! Guess who is bringing American Thanksgiving to Germany! This girl! I am beyond excited! Although it will be very early because Stefan will be going to Australia to sing in early October and will not be back until December! So! in the following weeks I will be preparing for Fall. Hopefully I can find a few things for decorations because, if you don't know, I work along side my grandmother and mother in a party business called Three Bells. (Shameless advertisement!) I will be taking it upon myself to truly treat this family to a whole day of relaxing and spend my whole day from morning to night in the kitchen! A place where I feel most at ease. I don't know what I will be making for lunch yet, but breakfast and dinner are taken care of! I just need to find one pumpkin so that I can make a pumpkin pie! My Tennessee (Sevier County and Cleveland) famous pumpkin pie! It will not be the same not making Thanksgiving dinner with my grandmother, but hopefully I can make a Thanksgiving dinner almost as nice as what she has given me over the years. I know how I will be giving my thanks over this very makeshift Thanksgiving.
OH! Yes! On an almost related note of "speaking of my grandmother"! I made her world class fried chicken for the kids yesterday! I have never made it before, but hopefully I got the right measurement of love in it. Sophia had fried chicken in Seattle this summer and has been talking about it the whole time i've been here. I made it and she said that it was the third best fried chicken that she had ever tasted! Which I gladly took because she is the picky eater of the family! Her first running was the chicken in Seattle, followed by her mothers chicken, and falling into third place is my grandmothers. Which I am sure I did something wrong if it fell into third, but I am happy to have gotten a "YUUMMMM" followed by her picking up the chicken with her hands and really digging in!
Today is just a lot of "AHHHHH" for tomorrow. The concert! How did it come up so fast!! My dress now needs to be altered, somehow I have managed to lose a few inches since I have been here. Must be all the Dinkel! (Basically no sugar.) Today will consist of ironing, altering, and practicing! I have been waiting for tomorrow for about four years now. Especially for about two years since my clarinet teacher told me that I basically would't amount to anything on the clarinet. I guess we will see tomorrow! If I give my signature to anyone then I will count that as something and probably won't be able to sleep for the follow three nights because I will be so excited. If that happens, I promise not to forget anyone! HA! Let's be honest, no one can even read my signature. I think it looks something like Dan L. Haskeets. If you ever see that signature save it! Well, I need to get some work done!
See you on the other side!
Bis Bald!
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