I'm fairly certain that I should be excited about going skiing this weekend. But really I'm secretly scared! I mean, the first time I'm ever skiing and it's on the Austrian Alps?! I feel that a broken leg is imminent. Let's just hope I can find a teacher for a morning class tomorrow :)
Otherwise, Munich is great so far. Learning Deutsch is quite a challenge, but seems to be slowly growing on me. My accent is not as terrible as originally thought. But there is so much vocabulary that it makes me wonder how I ever mastered English without intensive courses. Learning a 2nd language is really difficult and I really have a new respect for all those Europeans that can speak 3, 4 or 5 languages! It's awesome how diverse the people are here. Yet, somehow when asked if they speak German, they respond with, "A little bit." Only to go on and speak it perfectly to me. That's at least one good thing that America has done for me over here :)
And I am getting to travel a bit more lately. The bf took me to Prague for my birthday and then there was the long winter trek to the US for Christmas with the obligatory 6 day stop in South Florida (it was ONLY to see my grandmother, I swear!). But now I'm travelling a ton! Austria this weekend. Budapest, Hungary for 4 days next week. Frankfurt at the beginning of March. And hopefully, a trip to the Med for Easter. Perhaps Israel for Passover? I just need to get away from this terrible Munich weather! I'm so sick of the snow! Even Chicago wasn't so bad compared to this.
At least in Chicago they had deep dish pizza and a football team. Although the Super Bowl party last weekend was quite fun :)
Otherwise, Munich is great so far. Learning Deutsch is quite a challenge, but seems to be slowly growing on me. My accent is not as terrible as originally thought. But there is so much vocabulary that it makes me wonder how I ever mastered English without intensive courses. Learning a 2nd language is really difficult and I really have a new respect for all those Europeans that can speak 3, 4 or 5 languages! It's awesome how diverse the people are here. Yet, somehow when asked if they speak German, they respond with, "A little bit." Only to go on and speak it perfectly to me. That's at least one good thing that America has done for me over here :)
And I am getting to travel a bit more lately. The bf took me to Prague for my birthday and then there was the long winter trek to the US for Christmas with the obligatory 6 day stop in South Florida (it was ONLY to see my grandmother, I swear!). But now I'm travelling a ton! Austria this weekend. Budapest, Hungary for 4 days next week. Frankfurt at the beginning of March. And hopefully, a trip to the Med for Easter. Perhaps Israel for Passover? I just need to get away from this terrible Munich weather! I'm so sick of the snow! Even Chicago wasn't so bad compared to this.
At least in Chicago they had deep dish pizza and a football team. Although the Super Bowl party last weekend was quite fun :)
