Here is a celebration in this new land!  I completed a level of intensive language training!  Hooray!  On Sept. 26th so just two weeks ago today, I completed level A2.1 in German after four weeks of all morning study and learning. I talked just a little bit about this last week in my post.  …

As I sit here thinking of what to write so many ideas swirl through my brain and while some will expand into a full post there are some that just pop up and out and around and perhaps they are helpful or just part of the whole…. 1. A week ago from today I finished…

Yesterday after language school, our instructor and I went to grab some lunch. In the rest of her life she is a religious studies/philosophy PhD student and we had been wanting to chat about life and theology so we decided that yesterday was the day.  She is German by origin but has lived in the…

When I moved to Berlin, I took a big leap in the career category which took months of discernment and prayer and thoughtful consideration. I didn’t just take the leap lightly.  I talked with my therapist and trusted friends and processed over and over with Ana.  Ana and I had decided that perhaps it was…

I was having coffee with what is becoming a good friend the other day and we were talking about what next.  We became friends because she lives just two floors directly about us, she is American living here, and a lesbian as well.  Plus when we met we just totally hit it off and over…

From Monday to Thursday, I leave our flat between 10:10 and 10:15 in the morning to walk, a 12ish minute walk, for my 10:30am language school class.  I bought a bike about a month ago from a college student leaving Berlin so I have that option as well. At first I thought I would ride…

Thursday was a long but kind of amazing day because of a number of reasons that I will get into.  My day started as it has for the last couple of days this past week.  I got up bright and early and studied German for a few hours before heading off to school.  I am…