Garden Hotel Krefeld

heeey! es mi primera entrada, me tarde 4 meses en hace un blog, de mi aöo en Alemania como au apair, y como le puedo hacer para relatar 4 meses en Alemania??? No se, solo puedo decir, ha sido intenso, ha sido increible, lo he vivido al maximo, y no puedo esperar alo que sigue, he pasado por momentos dificiles. El estar viviendo con extraöos es dificil, pero el considerar a extraöos como parte de tu familia es todavia mas dificil. La gente que conozco ...

... way.

Annabel isn't coming to Belgium anymore and the tour ended up being booked out. So now I am sitting in an internet cafe in Essen trying to work out what to do for the day. I have been looking on a website to see if I can find a castle to visit. I may have found one too! It's not too far away which is good cos it means I can get back reasonably easily.

So this week has ...

... the Orchestra which I intend to copy so that u can hear it along with my German Phantom CD.

Last night I didn't do anything, just started to pack up my room a little and tried to finalise buying my presents. I cannot find any of the Baby Born stuff that Emma wants. I have been to every toy shop in Essen. I am so so sorry, but maybe Ebay is the better option aunty Noni...

I am certain that I will have too much weight so I will try and post a package home as ...

... So Monday I had classes, and then bought a dirndle. (A German traditional costume) I want to wear it to Karneval and I'm sure that I will also wear it when I come home. When I got back to the hotel I worked out in the Kraftraum before making dinner, doing some preparation for my class presentation Thurs and then I went to bed.

Tuesday I had classes, (our politics teacher made us start earlier because last lesson half the class came late -I was in the good half of course ...

... at buying some warm boots. And I might be able to fulfil Michael's wish of building a snowman after all.

A couple of my classmates are going to Neuschwanstein this weekend (It'll look amazing with the snow I am sure), and most people are going to Amsterdam. (It's only 2 hours away.) I would have been happy to go to either place, but I have worked out my own independent itinerary because of the fact that I have to go to Lauterbach on Friday ...

... This weekend coming is the free weekend. I am visiting Cori on Friday and staying over in Lauterbach. Then Sat I am going to Rothenburg, one of the prettiest and oldest villages in Germany, and from there to Wurzburg (they are the start of the Romantic strip of Germany). Sunday night I will head back to Essen.

And guess what? In 4 weeks today I am going to be back in the land of Aus!
Funny how time flies... Luv u all,

Sarah

So I believe I left u wondering what I was going to do on Saturday after my dreams of seeing a German castle had been completely blown out of the water.
The tutors decided that we would have the excursion to Düsseldorf instead, which is where I have already been twice. I wished that I had just stayed in bed I was SO tired. In the last 2 nights I had had a total of 8 hours sleep ...

... family in Lauterbach on our free weekend and 2) to find out whether it would be possible to get to Dortmund to see the opera "the barber from Seville". Unfortunately, that was not possible. There were no trains at all working from the station and we lined up for a long time with all of the other confused commuters before we got our answer.

Charl, Lauren and I were a bit disappointed, as only last Sunday we also missed out on going to the ...

... sure that I go to my room and then give me a call at the hotel. I have to be there because I am not allowed to go out anywhere. Thanks so much for ur message! It makes me miss u even more!
Don"t worry about my safety. Luckily the hurricane changed direction and will hit the eastern states worse than here.
So I"ll go now. Still cooking dinner and it's 10pm. I will try and leave another blog entry tomorrow if I can to let u know what I get up to.
Sarah

... hurting but I should be OK. So I fell asleep sometime at 4 and woke up at 9. Between that time some dudes came in, I guess they had the same room as I do and I just said Halloooo. I was still sleeping so I didn't remember much. I just turned on the TV and watched some shows on ZDF about news and stuff about smoking (I might've mentioned this but a *lot* of Germans smoke), cancer, jobs and such. Interesting thing is that I recognize almost 60-70% of the words, I just don't know what ...