Although my holiday is over since a week, I am still in deep holiday mood. Most likely it is just the summer mood, thanks to the beautiful weather we have. Nice warm temperatures without too much heat. That makes it easier to have special weekends. I went home to Mechernich, where I have lived for my last 10 years before having started my studies in Aachen. A neighbor of hours gave a good bye party, I needed two big laundry machines after my holidays, my brother had birthday and the currants were seasoned. Therefore more than enough reasons to get out of the city going back to the country side.
Friday evening I went to the good bye meeting with my parents to the neighbor. I finally met some people again I have not talked to since before my abroad in Sweden. A cosy and nice evening which reminded me a little bit of last Saturday in Friesland. And no matter in which conversation I joined, it was immediately about traveling. That is already an aspect that occurs the whole week. On Friday I have been "imaginary" in Australia due to a conversation. Also a goal I could imagine. The only thing I do not like are the poisening spiders. Small as European spiders are they quite dangerous in Australia. I do not have any problems with spiders. With sharks, crocodiles, jellyfishs and snakes I could get a long. Most likely you know where they are and/or they are big enough to see them in time. At least I can imagine how to avoid them.B ut imagining to sleep in a room where maybe one of those dangerous little spider beasts lives... brrrr. But Australians survive, too, somehow.
Anyway, I think on that evening I advertised Norway and Sweden a lot. During the other days I watched picture books of my big scandinavia travels when I have been a child. Although I can hardly remember the landscape I must have seen everything I wish for: fjords, reindeers, midnight sun, canyons, mountains... I guess, as child you cannot worship it as much as adult, since you do not know how special it is.
When I was not traveling in mind, I found a nice new hobby: making liqueur. My mother already set up strawberries and korn (hard German booze made of wheat) three weeks ago. It still needs 4 weeks to be ready. This weekend the currants had to be collected from the garden, since they were seasoned. And of course, we set up new liqueur. We have to kind of currants in the garden: dark red and bright rosa. The bright sort is sweeter, but it does not give a nice color to the liqueur. But I took some of bright currants with me to Aachen and just set up two bottles with each a different kind of rum. I am looking forward. But I have to be patient. It will be done middle or end of August. If I can wait that long, I can also keep it for the winter and warm myself from the inside. And in August the blackberries are ready to be harvested.
All in all a very funny weekend. My vacuum cleaner got a name, since I started my story "Two days ago I bought a vacuum cleaner - " got interrupted by the questions "What's her name?". End of story: my vacuum cleaner listens to the name "Olga" and is louder than an air plane. I also brought some stuff of my old room and my old appartment to Aachen to pimp the kitchen a bit. The posters I still have from times when I was 16 and I would not hang them in my room again, but they are good enough for a common room in a student flat. I also brought hammer and nails for some pictures, but I need to collect some frames of mine from my brother's flat. And tomorrow I suppose my big Sweden and Norway pictures from last semester should be delivered to a store to be picked up. Would make my room a perfect picture-book of the biggest trips of my last year. Hiking, Norway, Kiruna, Valencia.
Although my holiday is over since a week, I am still in deep holiday mood. Most likely it is just the summer mood, thanks to the beautiful weather we have. Nice warm temperatures without too much heat. That makes it easier to have special weekends. I went home to Mechernich, where I have lived for my last 10 years before having started my studies in Aachen. A neighbor of hours gave a good bye party, I needed two big laundry machines after my holidays, my brother had birthday and the currants were seasoned. Therefore more than enough reasons to get out of the city going back to the country side.
Friday evening I went to the good bye meeting with my parents to the neighbor. I finally met some people again I have not talked to since before my abroad in Sweden. A cosy and nice evening which reminded me a little bit of last Saturday in Friesland. And no matter in which conversation I joined, it was immediately about traveling. That is already an aspect that occurs the whole week. On Friday I have been "imaginary" in Australia due to a conversation. Also a goal I could imagine. The only thing I do not like are the poisening spiders. Small as European spiders are they quite dangerous in Australia. I do not have any problems with spiders. With sharks, crocodiles, jellyfishs and snakes I could get a long. Most likely you know where they are and/or they are big enough to see them in time. At least I can imagine how to avoid them.B ut imagining to sleep in a room where maybe one of those dangerous little spider beasts lives... brrrr. But Australians survive, too, somehow.
Anyway, I think on that evening I advertised Norway and Sweden a lot. During the other days I watched picture books of my big scandinavia travels when I have been a child. Although I can hardly remember the landscape I must have seen everything I wish for: fjords, reindeers, midnight sun, canyons, mountains... I guess, as child you cannot worship it as much as adult, since you do not know how special it is.
When I was not traveling in mind, I found a nice new hobby: making liqueur. My mother already set up strawberries and korn (hard German booze made of wheat) three weeks ago. It still needs 4 weeks to be ready. This weekend the currants had to be collected from the garden, since they were seasoned. And of course, we set up new liqueur. We have to kind of currants in the garden: dark red and bright rosa. The bright sort is sweeter, but it does not give a nice color to the liqueur. But I took some of bright currants with me to Aachen and just set up two bottles with each a different kind of rum. I am looking forward. But I have to be patient. It will be done middle or end of August. If I can wait that long, I can also keep it for the winter and warm myself from the inside. And in August the blackberries are ready to be harvested.
All in all a very funny weekend. My vacuum cleaner got a name, since I started my story "Two days ago I bought a vacuum cleaner - " got interrupted by the questions "What's her name?". End of story: my vacuum cleaner listens to the name "Olga" and is louder than an air plane. I also brought some stuff of my old room and my old appartment to Aachen to pimp the kitchen a bit. The posters I still have from times when I was 16 and I would not hang them in my room again, but they are good enough for a common room in a student flat. I also brought hammer and nails for some pictures, but I need to collect some frames of mine from my brother's flat. And tomorrow I suppose my big Sweden and Norway pictures from last semester should be delivered to a store to be picked up. Would make my room a perfect picture-book of the biggest trips of my last year. Hiking, Norway, Kiruna, Valencia.
Kommentare
naja, werd's noch nachholen. schaut auf den ersten blick aber so aus, als hättest du ne gute zeit gehabt - schön!
und das mit den fotos in schweden ist so ne sache: meine kamera ist derzeit kaputt :-(
liebe grüße! malgosi