Rennovation time

My blog has been screaming for attention for the past several months and I keep ignoring it. However, I can no longer shut out it's demands to be updated or even just to be read, so I'm going to do a little renovating here over the next few days and try to get back on track with it. Now that I'm finished with school (for two weeks), I'm going to try to spend some time focusing on some of the finer details of life (like the upkeep of one's blog and the dust bunnies hopping around one's apartment). I really need to be better prepared for the next round of intense language study. I feel like so much got "put on the back burner" over the past few months and I want to have a better system in place for staying connected to those of you who are not on Facebook, and for keeping you up to speed on what's going on in my little world over here in Germany.

Speaking of school, I just want to say that I've so much enjoyed getting a taste for this language over the past four months. It has been at times both exciting and frustrating...but mostly exciting. I'm looking forward to the next level and to becoming more comfortable with it. It has been extremely difficult for me to be thrown back to the level of a 5 year old in my ability to communicate...and even then, there are times when a 5 year old would be able to express it better. As a communicator, and one who is used to expressing myself artistically through music and stories, this has probably been the second most challenging aspect of being here--the first being obviously the separation from my family. I long for the day when I can express my heart in German. At the moment, it's just a bunch of strange sounding words, and rules, and lists. But that doesn't mean I don't love the language, because I do. And every day my heart becomes more and more entwined with the people who speak it.