Just got back from Juli's sister's house. They live in Stockum and Juli was babysitting her little niece, Louisa tonight, so I went over to hang out. Louisa is soooo cute. It was the first time I had seen her. She was supposed to go to bed around the time that I got there, but she was so excited that Juli and I were there, so that didn't happen. She has sooo full of energy. =) We played together a bit. Then she ran around the room and was just a very happy baby until we put her to bed about and hour later. We tucked her into her crib and then left her screaming and crying. Juli and I both felt soo bad. I hate leaving babies crying, but she eventually fell asleep. Juli and ... read more

What a great Christmas this has been =) I missed everyone back home, but it was also nice to get to spend Christmas with family over here again. Of course in true German style, there was a lot of celebrating. 24th:Christmas Eve The day was pretty relaxing. Just kicked back and didn't do much. Around 5 Anna, Maike and Oma came over and we opened presents. There were so many under the tree! Got some really nice stuff. Oh yeah, the Christmas tree had candles on it. =) I love that. hehe... the tree looks so pretty with candles. It just means you have to be extra careful. After presents we all went to Christina and Juergen's (Mama's sister and brother-in-law) for dinner. It's tradition that the Christmas Eve dinner is Fondue. mmmmmm.... so good. It's ... read more

Hi Everyone, yeah I know... I've been slacking. sorry that it's been a while since I last wrote. I know, I haven't finished writing about the conference. I've already started the last journal entry for it, but just haven't found the time to finish it yet. Things have been very busy here. After berlin I was in Trier for 3 days and then caught a train up to Stockum for the weekend (Thur. to Sun.). It was nice to be back up here. Sat. was my class party. That was a blast =) =)... I have pictures up on my site. I was back in Trier this week. Classes are keeping me very very busy. It's beginning to be crunch time. Also had to clean the apartment and pack. Yuck! Mon. was my last dance class. ... read more

Sorry everyone, this is gonna be a very long one, so if you don't want to read all of it I'll sum it up.... It was a great conference and I had a blast in Berlin! =) Now for the rest of you, here are the details... enjoy =)...... After having finally finished writing about the first two days I've realized it's going to be really long. I don't want to have to cut anything out 'cause I'm so excited about what I wrote, so I decided to break it up into a few journal entries so it doesn't look too overwhelming. Skim it if you want, only read parts or if you have a lot of free time read it all. =) Hope you all enjoy.. there will be more coming. (If you want to ... read more

A great and hilarious day. Got up early and worked some more on my reading, went grocery shopping and so forth. Nothing really interesting. Then around 12 Matt, Graham, Melissa and I went to the Christmas Market. It was really nice but sooooooo packed. At some points you could hardly move cause there were so many people. I hate crowds like that. It was still fun though. We walked around and looked at all the booths and the different food that you could buy. We stopped at a booth that had something that looked like little mini pancakes. They were Poffertjes from the Netherlands. There were two griddles with little round circles in em that the guy poured dough into. He then used a little pronged fork to flip them. They cooked really quickly. Of course ... read more