Today

I've decided to just be a 3rd year student. The stress of doing two years in one is going to take over me and more importantly take over my horn playing. I won't allow this sacrifice.

But also, I finally got to sleep in! Until 11:30! I was talking to mom and dad until 1:30am... and then I fell asleep HARD. I'm about to make something for breakfast... don't have many options. Maybe tuna again? Then I am going to buy a lock for my locker down the street from school. Then I will PRACTICE. Then I will go get my phone registered. Then (probably by 3 or 4) I will go to Grondland and buy some fresh vegetables. Life is better with fresh and cheap vegetables. Then I will practice until 8 or so. Then home is where the heart is.

Sounds like a good day to me. The weather is gorgeous, but you can't take that for granted here... it can change within 10 minutes to the worst day ever.

And on another side note, I just saw a girl walking past my window with her parents. Jealous.

And Obama picked the VP. I will have to get the scoop from mom and dad. I have heard good things about him and Sarah is happy... so those are two pluses.

Love you all!

A thought...

As I was waiting at my train stop, I turned around to look at the little mountain with the forest growing on it with the clouds seeping through the trees... And I saw a little patch of blue sky through the awful weather. And it made me think... sometimes we forget the blue sky is still behind all those grey clouds. But perhaps we just need to see it to remember that.

I know I'm trying.

longest day EVER

Here was the plan...
Wake-up and go to the central train station to buy a train ticket
When buying the train ticket, ask where the police station was that I needed to go to
PROBLEM SOLVED

But this is what happened...
Place I thought was to buy ticket was closed
Woman in central station tells me to go to tourist information to find out where the police station is
Can't find tourist information
Walk around downtown for a little bit looking for a police station...nothing
Go to school to ask where the police station is
Walk in the wrong direction for several minutes
Turn around and find the police station
Turns out to be the wrong police station
Get directions to the right police station
LINE OUT THE DOOR WITH FOREIGNERS
Decide to come back before the open tomorrow
Go back to the central station ticket place is open
This is not where you buy your train pass
Walk around the central station for a while looking for the ticket place
Ask
Turns out to be the tourist info. place I couldn't find
LINE OUT THE DOOR.
Decide to go back tomorrow earlier.

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH.

Aus Muenchen

Preface: I am writing this at a time I cannot post it. SO, if some of you have heard a different perspective from me already, bear with me.

6:52am Tallahassee time

12:52pm Munich time

I’m tired. I want to sleep. The flight from Charlotte to Munich went relatively fast, so I have that to be thankful for. 7 hours and 40 minutes. I slept about 2 to 3 of those hours. The rest I spent dozing and reading and watching movies. The delay in Charlotte was a real bummer, but the Munich airport doesn’t have much to offer, so maybe enduring there was a good thing. I would have fallen asleep by now if my layover was still 6 hours. I will be arriving in Oslo around 5. THANK GOD. I want to go to BED. I made the mistake of ordering a beer in some organic bistro in the Munich airport. Of course I forgot the word for glass……. So they started speaking in English to me. Whatever. Too tired to really care if they think I’m an idiot. I forgot that beers here are ½ liters. So it took me a while to finish it, but when I stood up, I was walking a little crooked. Harharhar. So far I’m the only person sitting at the gate to Oslo. Perhaps it’s a private jet. If there was a sign that this is all meant to be, I’m sure that would be a pretty obvious one. OH, no one was sitting next to me on the way to Munich so I could stretch out a little bit. There were several attractive German boys in the terminal, but I never am lucky enough to actually be seated by one. Although one was sitting across the isle from me… but up close he looks 15. I would say that is out of my range… BAHAHAHA. (I’m tired. Did I mention that?) So back to my beer, I got an organic bagel with cheese, cream cheese, lettuce, and cucumber to accompany it. I left a quarter of it sitting on the table. The beer was obviously more important to finish. The meal cost around 9 euros. That’s $13 maybe? Eeeeeek. I probably won’t eat dinner. Froydis is picking me up in her car, but I still have to ride the train to meet her… stupid train ticket costs $20 or so. So I definitely don’t think I will eat dinner. And just for the record, I’m fairly certain I ate meat in this pasta JUNK they served us. It was nasty. NASTY. Haven’t found a place to exchange my currency yet. I remember there being something in Oslo. If not, I will just use my credit card… I’m going straight to bed anyways, so I don’t really need money yet. Oh… but for the train tomorrow TO SCHOOL. BUUUUUUUUUH. I don’t wanna go to school yet!!! There were two “good-ole-boys” on the plane to Munich. The German word for Munich is Muenchen. These guys were reading signs off of cars (which they were laughing at because they were smaller than their chevy pick-ups) and saying “Moo-chien”……..when you would really say something like “Muen-ken.” What was even better, is that they were saying it with a southern accent. Couldn’t think of anyone but dad when I heard that. BAHAHA. He would have done the same thing. But I think it’s good that they are getting out and seeing the world. Even if it is for……some German hunting exposition. I almost got the guts to talk to some little German kids… but they wouldn’t understand the concept of slowly speaking to me. It wouldn’t be half as interesting for them as it is to me.

Anyways, I guess that is all for now. I need a short nap. Maybe I will set my alarm to go off in an hour. I’m basically screwed with the jet lag. I need to be tired by 8 tonight. Then I will sleep until 7 the next morning before SCHOOL. BUH.

Love everyone,

Johanna