One week in Germany

Phew, so, I've been here for about 8 days now!  Crazy. It's been so busy. Lots of meeting with people, errands, and getting to know the family. 

I can safely say that I'm exhausted. 

Since I'm not working yet, I've just been kind of "job-shadowing" what the parents do each day. Getting up at about 6:30, getting the kids up for breakfast, dressing them, and taking them to school. Then I can do whatever until about 2 to 4 depending on the day. Then we play with the kids until supper, we eat, then we put the kids to bed. Pretty simple day. :) 

It has been crazy the past few day because it's Karneval.

Karneval is a big celebration where everyone dresses up and goes to bars and gets drunk. There are also a ton of parades. This lasts from Thursday until Tuesday night. So, a lot of partying here in Germany. :).

So far, I've taken two long trips to places where I didn't need to be there at that time.. So that kind of sucked, but I guess at least I get to know my way around the city better. 

Right now, we're working on getting my visa started. Because of karneval, a lot of places have been closed, or shorter hours which makes it hard to get this stuff done. 

German is making me feel so stupid. Even though I think I'm learning more, it's so hard to understand everyone. I feel like I can speak and understand German, just when people say things a different way, or say certain words, I feel like I'm a child because I can't understand anything. 

I really feel like I can understand, and then I get lost in the conversation again. 

I really want to learn, and I want to learn quickly... It's just exhausting. 

That's all for now. 

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