Sorry!

Ok, so anyone is reading this has been hopefully not checking in because I've been awful about updating...

So, moving on, hi people!

I did go to customs, on Tuesday, it was again a long trek but at least this time I knew where in the huge building I had to go.  I got there to find out, once again, how much bureaucracy and customs bothers me!

My lovely coat was sent as a gift by my mom directly to Germany but any "gift" exceeding 45 euros in value is subject to a tax.  To gain my coat's freedom from customs I had to pay, thank goodness everyone takes visa!!! I love my coat and though I don't want cold weather yet, I think one good thing about it will be wearing my pretty loden (forest green color) coat around.

Oh and silly Kendall, the class that I thought was supposed to start today, the school's website said the 25th, actually starts Montag....aka neunundzwanzig August.  Oops.  I got all the way to the school before I had this error pointed out to me.  It was my fault for not realizing because the slip said the date but they DID change it from the website that I'd been referring to when signing up for the course.

Ah well, another two days of leisure isn't so bad!  I took it upon myself to go to the tourist center by the train station since my mom is planning her trip to visit me in late October, now I'm armed with tons of tourist information about hotels, sightseeing etc...yay!

Alright, that's all I have to update for now, once I really start my class I'll let you know how it goes!

Kendall 

Customs-woo!

Hello people!

I have been rather boring of late getting into a daily routine so I haven't really had anything to post on here.

I still don't really but I will!  I have an epic saga ahead, well it's still boring but it certainly is a saga.  Time for round 2 with customs, they enjoy detaining my "parcels" as they tend to call it in their British English lessons.  So I will make the journey either today or Monday (takes nearly an hour on public transport) to get my winter coat that LL Bean shipped here without registering with German customs. To use a phrase we're all familiar with: "D'oh!"  So I shall retrieve it from it's ivory tower asap.

Next up we have the current event of my intensive German class starting next Thursday the 25th, it's 4 days/week for 4 hour/day.  If I'm not speaking German to a degree after 16 hours a week from next Thursday until September 30th I don't know when I will!!

Bye for now!

A start to my year abroad...

Hello to anyone reading this!

I left home on July 13th so it has been three and a half weeks, most of that was spent traveling.  I just arrived in Hannover Thursday July 28th.  Glad to be back but also happy to have all my stuff now that the bag my mom (thanks mom!) shipped has arrived.

Getting back to Hannover was very fun, Lennart spent all afternoon beaming at me and I was very happy to see him again!  As well as the rest of my German "family" after a year apart.

It's great to be back, the last two Fridays I went to the Machseefest and sampled Lüttje Lage which is a Hannover tradition.  Shown below, the glass with clear liquor is tilted into the shot of beer as one drinks it.  A bit messy but traditional!

Not much else to report yet.  Hope all is well with those reading this!  Please keep in touch, I'm all over facebook and always happy to skype with the people I left in California/USA.  (Note: It is 9 hours from CA to Hannover!)

Oh and visitors are also MORE than welcome...

<3

Kendall
p.s. Thanks to my Cousin Jen and her husband Justin for the blog name, I was having writer's block!