ben je hier voor spek en bonen?

heretu @ 2008-07-25T18:49:00

2008-07-25T17:52:55Z

The house was bedlam this morning when I woke up: my grandparents were still decorating the kitchen, my auntie was here cleaning for my mam and, my brother was off work and had begun to build the new barbecue for my dad in the garden. Fortunately, I had made plans to meet my cousin for lunch on the marina, which was nice. I ate the smoked salmon bagel, as always, and we had a good catch-up.

Since then I've done nothing. I read a little, watched some TV and attempted to find a house again. Then I gave up and made chirashi sushi with prawns and teriyaki vegetables. Mmm.

Tonight, nothing.

heretu @ 2008-07-22T19:50:00

2008-07-22T18:52:52Z

Today has been spent cowering from the sun like the good little ginger I am.
I watched two episodes of Desperate Housewives, read more of The Day of the Triffids, cooked dinner and pored over the map that the wonderful OS people sent me. There're so many contour lines on it, though, that it might as well be printed on pink paper.
My friend phoned to say that the campingplatz was booked, so all I need to do now I get my train booked and I'm set for five days in the Lake District.

heretu @ 2008-07-20T18:25:00

2008-07-20T17:28:48Z

Conversations at the dinner table, no. 1:

Mam: I still haven't spoken to our new neighbours, and have no desire to.
Dad: You should embrace our lesbian friends.
Mam: We don't even know if they're lesbians.
Me: I could find out online. They have to register with the government, like sex offenders.
Mam: Do they?
Me: Yes. We live in Nazi Germany.
Dad: They're always very cordial to me.
Mam: Well, they've not even said "hello" to me.
Dad: They probably know we're Catholic and can smell the judgement.

heretu @ 2008-07-18T17:23:00

2008-07-18T16:25:09Z

Our hiking expedition has changed a little bit. Rather than walking the Cleveland Way, we're going (hopefully) to Keswick to camp for a few days. It's just north of Derwent Water, so we'll be able to do some day walks/hikes, as well as bum around the towns nearby if we fancy a break from walking.

And the best thing? I got to buy a map.

heretu @ 2008-07-17T16:23:00

2008-07-17T15:26:05Z

"The wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin has told a jury she forgave her husband after he cheated on her." Who'da thunk?

I might go for a walk to try and spot camera crews on the beach tomorrow. I might make it onto the news.

heretu @ 2008-07-17T11:58:00

2008-07-17T11:02:59Z

My friends from home and I decided to do some kind of a hike in the next few weeks. I think we settled on The Cleveland Way. It should be good fun if it happens, but who knows.

My boredom is getting worse, and today I have to contend with my hyperactive cousin (she's five) running around the house while my auntie cleans it. I'd go for a walk but I'm not yet showered. The highlight of my day, however, seems to be going to Asda later on, and then cooking dinner afterwards.

I need something to do.

heretu @ 2008-07-15T22:52:00

2008-07-15T21:59:40Z

Toen ik een antwoord voor Andy in het Nederlands zat te schrijven, begon ik het Mega-Mindy CD van Matt te krijgen. Het is dé album van 2008. Ik heb ook gezegd dat ik tussen Groningen en Zweden wil fietsen. Ik denk dat ik misschien een beetje gek werd omdat ik nog genoeg zuiker vandaag heb gegeten. Maar het bedoeling is dat ik morgen iets actief moet doen.... ik moet wel in het binnenstad lopen, maar misschien ga ik iets anders ook doen?

heretu @ 2008-07-15T19:31:00

2008-07-15T18:36:59Z

My day:
0900: Alarm goes off.
1030: Wake up, breakfast.
1100: Doorbell. Postman with a parcel from Catherine: a book titled Verleid door een duivel.
1200: Shower, talk on msn for a bit.
1330: Discover that Desperate Housewives is on channel four. Eat lunch, drink a lot of coffee.
1530: Write letter, cook brother's dinner
1700: Start reading, cook our dinner
1933: Check uni inbox again to see if Erasmus office have replied. They haven't.

It's finally sunny, but too hot for me to go outside. I burn so quickly. Damn ginger hair and Celtic ancestry. I heard from a friend that we might be having a picnic tomorrow, though!

heretu @ 2008-07-14T21:53:00

2008-07-14T20:54:06Z

I need a better structure to my days of boredom, so plan on getting up at an okay time tomorrow, eating breakfast and going for a walk/to Nationwide before coming home and being lazy, rather than doing it all day.
Let's hope this works.

heretu @ 2008-07-12T21:28:00

2008-07-12T20:43:03Z

In the last three days I've acted as a tour-guide of my beautiful part of England. I got the train to Newcastle on Thursday morning and met Leonie and Anouk in the station. We first walked down to the Riverside and crossed the bridge to Gateshead to go to the Baltic. I really liked the exhibitions they've got in there at the moment. Sometimes they can be a bit weird. Afterwards we walked through the Sage and back across the Tyne. We wandered around Grainger Town for a bit and ate lunch in Yo! Sushi. I was so happy I found one in the North East. We then headed back to the station and got the train to Hartlepool. By this time it was really sunny, and the view of the coast was brilliant. We sat around in the garden for a bit, then ate dinner and went to the pub for a couple.

Yesterday morning we got up, grumbled about the rain and then spent the day walking around Hartlepool. Christ Church, The Museum of Hartlepool, a look around the Marina for lunch (smoked salmon bagel, mmm) and then to Asda to buy provisions for last night's barbecue. The rain had stopped by the time we got home and the garden was dry enough to sit in when people got here at seven. Much drunkeness ensued and a good time was had by all. Highlights include (apparently, I can't really remember) ring of fire, going to see if Jax was open but realising it wasn't and then coming back to mine. I didn't go to bed until 6am - after my dad had got up for work.

Today, despite being incredibly hungover, I had a nice afternoon in Durham. My mam took us up in the car, and dropped us off at the Botanical Gardens. I'd not been for ages, and some of the stuff was huge now, but I couldn't find the sheep that usually graze in one of the bits :( After this we walked back into the centre and saw a bit of the Miners' Parade and battled through the crowd to get to the Cathedral. Which was shut. So we walked around for a bit, and had a tour of the castle before going back to the Cathedral once it was open again. After this we had pizza and I waved the moffen off.

I'm so so tired now, but have had a brilliant few days. I just ate fish pie again. Ratdog would be singing his song now, I tell you. Tomorrow I don't plan on doing much, but I might go for a massive walk to make up for the amount I've eaten and drank in the last few days.

heretu @ 2008-07-08T12:47:00

2008-07-08T11:51:51Z

I just went for my eye test and got to pay £22 for the sodding thing. I'm not covered by the NHS anymore, since I'm 20, although I'm still in full-time education. Humph. But the good news is that my perscription hasn't changed, so I don't need new glasses. Woo. I also have a slight astigmatism in one of my eyes.

The deluge continues. I wish the rain would stop. Not that I would go anywhere if it did, just it would be nice to sit in the garden and do a bit of reading. It would be better if it finished before the moffetjes came up on Thursday for the north-east adventure.

My parents came home from Glasgow yesterday. They said they'd seen a couple of things I would've liked but failed to buy them, so mammy's said that she'd buy me a mac (coat, unfortunately) to make up for it. Good times. Acne have a sale on, fyi. Although the only sizes still avaliable are fatty fatty bum bum ones.

heretu @ 2008-07-06T21:59:00

2008-07-06T21:01:16Z

I want a bike.
I actually want a Dutch-style bike.
But I can't find any in the UK for under £500 and Halford's aren't amazing.
:(
I want a bike that's nice and new like Rhian's.

So bored. So, so bored.

heretu @ 2008-07-06T12:52:00

2008-07-06T12:02:43Z

Another year abroad update.
I seem to be having a little more luck in finding somewhere to live in my field outside of Hamburg. I found a couple of WGs that don't specify gender, and I set up a profile on wg-gesucht.de to say that I'm looking for somewhere in the area. Yesterday morning I had a reply from a man who works for a property company in the town that specialises in short-term leasing, and that they have some furnished places. I have to ruf him tomorrow sometime an, to arrange viewings. Except I'm not in Geesthacht yet, so will have to explain all this, but say I'm going out at the end of August, haben Sie eine Website worauf ich suchen kann?

I spent yesterday amazingly hungover, and so I basically ate all day and watched every episode of Black Books on virgin on demand. I forgot how funny the programme actually is.

Sunday dinner at the grandparents' in 58 minutes...

heretu @ 2008-07-05T15:57:00

2008-07-05T15:01:30Z

My parents have gone to Glasgow for the weekend and left me and my brother in the house. Last night we had some friends round (my parents said we could) and everything was going great until 3am, when the alarm tripped and started going off. So, we reset the alarm. It happened again. And again. Eventually, my brother's best friend, who's an electrician, managed to turn off the alarm. But, it also turned off the rest of the house. This morning, it wouldn't turn back on. It's just been fixed, and whilst it's amazing that I can now wash, it was nice not to have any distractions. Even boiling water in a proper kettle for breakfast this morning was good fun. Breakfast was bacon sandwiches and fish fingers. I love using up food that's defrosted...

I do, however, have the hangover of death today. I drank almost three bottles of wine. I think I have a problem.

heretu @ 2008-07-03T23:40:00

2008-07-03T23:38:16Z

I have only been learning Dutch for a little under two years. I'm way better at it than I am at German, which I've been learning for seven years. I am going to Germany for the first part of my year abroad, and Nederland for the second. Between the 10th and 19th August I will be in the country, to go to Lowlands and basically laze around in Gouda before hand (day trips- thinking of giving Rotterdam a great big miss... what about Middleburg?), and since I'm probably going to be vermoffd when I'm in Germany, I've decided that the period between now and then, aside from the essential stuff I need to do (like find a house, err), will be dedicated to strengthening my Dutch as much as possible.

So I present to you a list of reasons as to why I love Holland so much, because many people ask:

The language. It might be because I learnt German first, or because it is grammatically a lot simpler, but I find it so much better, and although it lacks the sophistication of German, I could happily speak this as my second language. Plus, some of the words are hilarious: kip (chicken), slagroom (whipped cream), prik (the stuff in fizzy drinks that makes them fizzy), u kunt (you can, and formal to boot). And the vowels! They just flow together like nothing you've ever seen: eeuw (century), vrouw (wife/woman) and my personal favourite: zeeëend (some kind of sea duck). You get the idea.

The Hague is one of my favourite places to visit while I'm there, even if it's not always as sunny as this. Once, we ate lunch with the queen in a restaurant in The Hague. She ordered a coke and smoked inside. But aside from that, the place is pretty, but doesn't have half the amount of tourists that Amsterdam does.

Fietsing. I love to cycle, even if I do go really slow... In Sheffield I lived way too far up the hill to own a bike, and so I'm holding out for when I move to Germany to buy one, although it won't be as swish as Rhian's. I love how well-organised the Dutch cycle network is when compared to the shambles that is Britain. And it's flat. And, people wouldn't look twice at seeing a business-man on a bike. And! There was a bike division of the Dutch army!

The Art. During our module on the history of the Low Countries we did a bit on art, and I wrote on it in the exam. I think it's amazing. When you consider how the rest of Europe was still producing religious and historical ~~rubbish~~ painting and sculpture, the Dutch began to move away from this and forge their own style. This ditty is by Van Gogh, who is perhaps second on my list of favourites, after Vermeer.

Those who know me well, and maybe those who don't, know that liquorice is one of my favourite food groups (along with coffee and my much missed snus). In Holland, they share my enthusiasm, as Sint here clearly shows. On this picture you have three of what is possibly hundreds of kinds: (l-r) peppermint, salty (mmm), salmiac. I think he's covered in pear flavour, too. This brings me onto my next reason:

Sinterklaas! It's almost like the Dutch have it perfectly arranged. No north pole, no elves, no flying reindeer. Just a Catholic bishop from Madrid who comes on December 5th on a steam boot with his ~~slaves~~ helpers and a big, white horse. If you're good, you get presents, if you're bad, Piet (the helper) takes you back to Spain in a sack. Genious. And, for the adults, you've got the added element of writing critical poems to your loved ones.

Koninginnendag (Queen's Day - 30th April), is another festival I like to get involved in. Slap on a bit of orange, go out, big it up for haar majesteit and get pissed. I think the appeal of this is how illicit it makes me feel. Being raised Catholic, I've been taught to dislike the Protestants. Especially those orange men. So when I do this, I feel like I do when I break other Catholic laws, like eating meat on Friday, not fasting on rogation days and kissing boys. It feels good.

I know supermarkets are always more exciting in another country, but Albert Heijn is a supermarket of dreams. Imagine an English supermarket's prices, then just switch the £ into an € and basically double the amount you're getting. I know it's the expensive one of the middle-classes, but it's wonderul. The smoothies are my personal favourite. But he also supplies the Euroshopper sherry and lemonade which is the traditional tipple for a night on the Reguliersdwaarstraat.

Bedankt voor uw attentie

heretu @ 2008-07-02T23:11:00

2008-07-02T22:42:54Z

Because I can't sleep, and they've finally been uploaded (By Dave:

Our trip to Sweden began in the wonderful town of Pontefract. The English home of Liquorice. This photo was taken minutes after we found Dave pissed off in the market square because he'd taken a wrong turn on the train and ended up in the Ghetto.

"Petey B's rip-off caf". Peterborough at some ungodly hour in the morning, on the way to Stanstead to catch our flight. Seriously cold, and very tired, but the coffee helped.

Later that day, in Gothenburg. Please notice a) the sunglasses - it was actually sunny; b) the buldge on my upper-lip, formed by a glorious pouch of tobacco. God I miss it. c) the milkshake. I don't remember what flavour this was but they were well tasty. Especially the liquorice one.

On our first full day in Jönköping, Rhian took us on a bike-tour of the town. This is us near Bongo, the indie club we always say we'll go to but never do.

We watched the Germany match and had our first kebab on the night. I think Rhian excelled herself with her flag drawing.

Midsummer day. The emo kids were weird. Unspeakable acts involving them were committed and the people involved should never be allowed to forget. Rhian already looks a bit nervous, as though she knows what's going to come.

The whole day was basically just drinking and eating around this table. Well good. Until Shakira took over the DJing and got us all to dance.

But we did go outside to put up the sign, and later on some of them disappeared to play on the swings, but we were left with the emos and they got chased by Swedish teenagers. Fun times.

We went for a walk up a big hill into the park, and saw this rune stone, some baby goats, sheep, a church burnt down by goths, and a museum that was full of stuffed birds and eggs. The day was quite dismal when we trooped home, but we had a hotdog barbecue and ate so so much.

We played Yatzheeeee, too. Then watched Holland get knocked out of the football. I think. Boo.

Our second-last day was spent in Jonkoping. We bought sweets and the stuff to make a huge pan of chilli, which we ate before buying and eating more sweets, and signing Dave up for a gay, Swedish dating website.

The last day we went back to Gothenburg and just wndered around, did a bit of shopping, drank more milkshake, said good-bye to Rhian and Ratdog and then got the bus and plane back to England. Totally showing the effect of beer and kebab there.

So yes, that was Sweden.

heretu @ 2008-07-02T18:26:00

2008-07-02T17:29:45Z

I've just bought a ticket to go and see maximo park in Amsterdam in August with the Dutchies, and changed my flights so I'm going four days early. I love The Netherlands. I honestly cannot wait to move out there when I graduate from Sheffield.

I'm in charge of cooking dinner again tonight. We're having pasta with chicken and tomato sauce. My mam wants me to put bacon in it. I don't think I will.

heretu @ 2008-07-02T13:58:00

2008-07-02T13:01:43Z

I went into town today, to post some letters and have some money changed (300SEK was £23... and then £80 was only €100 *sob*), and also to go to the library to have something to do. I booked myself in with the dentist and optician, too. I guess it's best to get them over with in one swoop. God knows how I'm going to afford it if I need new glasses, or dental work doing.

heretu @ 2008-07-01T23:04:00

2008-07-01T22:15:39Z

I have more year abroad woe. It's seriously hard to find somewhere to live in Geesthacht. I've found two WGs listed, both of which specify weiblich people to apply. I'm not weiblich, and I certainly don't want to lose any of my männlichness to live there. So the only place I can find in the town is a one-roomed flat in a dachgeschoss, with its own bathroom and kitchen. I'm seriously considering living here, even though I would have to live on my own. Also, the website is requesting a Provision: 2 Nettokaltmieten zzgl. gesetzlicher MwSt plus a deposit of the same amount, but I don't have 960,00€ going spare. Especially not for a place I'm living in for 5 months. And it's unfurnished.

Hartlepool is getting more and more boring. I've hung out with some friends, but I'm bored of my family. Anybody fancy putting me up for a few days? I've been warned about using too many bowls, tea spoons and mugs. I've been told that four chicken breasts isn't enough to feed three people (wtf?), to smile more, to talk less, not to hog the TV, to arrange the cushions properly in the sitting room... I love them, I really really do. But I need my independence back.

P.S. Garraway, I know you're reading this. The new Sigur Rós album´s really really good! Six weeks!

heretu @ 2008-06-30T20:26:00

2008-06-30T19:28:43Z

Hartlepool continues to "thrill, chill and fulfill" me... I've not done anything today, and the most exciting thing to happen is getting an e-mail from the JBC to say my dermalogica had been shipped. Some cute guy did try to sign me up for the RSPB this afternoon, though.

Things I've learnt from the TV today:
- American is the world's oldest continent
- The Appalaichians used to be taller than the himalayas
- Some types of caviar cost over £700 a tub
- During the regency period, pie was the most popular food amongst inmates.

I think I'm going to the pub in a bit. Waiting on a phonecall. You never know, those tidbits might come in useful...

heretu @ 2008-06-28T18:25:00

2008-06-28T17:28:39Z

Eight hours, a lot of sweets and eight sacks of rubbish (three old, fat richard clothes; two cardboard to be recycled; three general crap) thrown out, and my bedroom is finally organised. Yeah, there're still some boxes under my desk, but they're organised now. I sifted through twenty years of collecting and had to be pretty ruthless, but it's done now, and I can finally relax in there without feeling upset at how messy it all is.

I went shopping earlier on with my mam, in Middlesbrough. I got two new pairs of shoes (I must've tried five or six pairs of black ones on; either they didn't fit or my size wasn't avaliable), six pairs of socks and the new Sigur Rós CD, as prep for Lowlands.

Now, I'm going to go and sit in the garden and read. The Summer's here!

heretu @ 2008-06-27T18:08:00

2008-06-27T17:14:07Z

"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible [most of it anyway]
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I have a lot of catching up to do.

heretu @ 2008-06-27T12:21:00

2008-06-27T11:39:23Z

I got back from Sweden yesterday afternoon but I was too exhausted from the travelling to post. We spent most of the time there just lazing around and relaxing, but I had a fantastic time because of this. It was good to finally rest after the last year. We did do some other stuff, like cycling, walking in the forest and venturing out of the house for a daily fika. Oh, how I wish coffee and cake were as good here!

Wednesday we spent in Gothenburg, with Rhian. It was sad to say "bye" to her, even though I'm going to see her in Cologne in September, and probably a few times in SH later in the year. But still. Our flight was delayed by almost two hours, so the three of us took it upon ourselves to be the people who make all the noise in the departure lounge. When we finally got to Stanstead, we had a few hours sleep before our train left, at 0520. Eight hours and six trains later, I was home. I spent the afternoon showering and sleeping.

Erik looking confused by the English Strawpedo tradition.

Klara är snygg och bara 6 år

I'll post more pictures when Dave uploads his; my camera wasn't used...

So now I'm back in Hartlepool for the Summer. So far I've been shopping for food with my mother, and walked home from the train station. Within five minutes I'd been heckled at by some chavs. Err. I think it's going to be mostly spent reading and sorting out next year. At least I have Lowlands to look forward to, and several trips back down to Sheffield, maybe. I don't have enough money to fritter it away, so I'm going to convert the cash I do have into euros this afternoon so that I can't spend it.

I think I'm moving to Germany around the beginning of September. My dad's very kindly offered to drive me to the town I'm staying in, and I've found a couple of sites on the internet that have accommodation. I still don't know what the school's like as their website is currently unavaliable "Aufgrund umfangreicher Wartungsarbeiten". So yes.

heretu @ 2008-06-24T11:22:00

2008-06-24T09:25:22Z

Sehr geehrter Herr McClelland,
vom Ministerium für Bildung und Frauen des Landes Schleswig-Holstein haben wir erfahren, dass Sie als Fremdsprachenassistent im September zu uns kommen. Wir freuen uns darüber sehr.
...
D S
-Sekretärin-

Looks like I'm now a resident of Geesthacht, SH, Germany.
10km south-west of Hamburg.
Woo.

heretu @ 2008-06-24T00:09:00

2008-06-23T22:14:24Z

It rained again today, and it was really windy. It wasn't too bad; we cycled along the banks of the lake to the shopping place so Rhian could buy hair dye, then back into Jönköping to eat sushi in a new place there. We never made it to the sweet factory - it's well far away and they didn't know the way 100%.
This evening we've watched She's All That and some of Freaky Friday, but the DVD we'd rented was broken so we never got to see it all :(.
Tomorrow's our last full day, aside from the one we're spending in Gothenburg before flying back to Blighty on Wednesday night. I don't want to go home. It's so relaxing here and I don't have to worry about uni or money or that I've stuffed my face since I arrived. But still, I guess it'll good to spend a bit of time with my family before moving to Germany (I still don't know the town. Fucking Pädegogische Auslandsdients or whatever it's called) in mid-September.