Ha ha, the title is a song from Linkin Park from forever ago, lol...
I decided instead of buying a $50 converter for my curling iron and blow dryer, I would buy a new curling iron and blow dryer with dual-voltage capabilities... for $12 and $14. Ha ha... It kinda bugs me that my $100 Rusk professional curling iron doesn't have dual voltage!! (Dual voltage means it will work in high voltage countries). If you look on the appliance you'll see something engraved in the plastic that says something like this : 120v 50Hz. If it only says 120v then it is NOT dual voltage... the new appliances I bought today say this: 120/240v 50/60hz and then lists the wattage. My new blow dryer is super cute... the handle folds under! Another thing about the curling iron I got today, for $12 I got dual voltage, automatic shut off within 60 minutes in case I forget to turn it off (I've left my,Rusk iron on ALL day on many occasions because $100 doesn't buy that feature I guess!!) ceramic, and a heat shield so I don't have to wait for it to cool down to pack it. YAAAAAAAY so now I can plug it into my universal surge protector with no problems and no need for a converter (which aren't meant for heating devices anyway).
The SIM card folks FedEx'd my SIM card today so I'll be getting my new phone number to you guys shortly... wow, crazy, I'm going to have a German phone number!!!
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007
My Guest Family!
Hey guys, today I found out who my guest family is, and where they live and stuff!!
I went to the German Google Maps site and mapped out their address to the language school's, and they are only 3 kilometers away! I am going to walk every day there and every day home again. That'll be great exercise, since I'll be away from my beloved spinning classes for so long!
So I emailed the family... Their family name is Meloh, the mom's name is Heike, and she has a 19 year old daughter, Ashley. They also have 1 cat, about whom I am excited. I gave the Meloh family my flight information and sent them some pictures of me and my own cats, ha ha.
Well I am über-excited! Actually, four weeks from today Mom and I will be in Fort Myers already, preparing for my flight at 4:40pm the next day.
That's it for now, I guess...
Caitlin
I went to the German Google Maps site and mapped out their address to the language school's, and they are only 3 kilometers away! I am going to walk every day there and every day home again. That'll be great exercise, since I'll be away from my beloved spinning classes for so long!
So I emailed the family... Their family name is Meloh, the mom's name is Heike, and she has a 19 year old daughter, Ashley. They also have 1 cat, about whom I am excited. I gave the Meloh family my flight information and sent them some pictures of me and my own cats, ha ha.
Well I am über-excited! Actually, four weeks from today Mom and I will be in Fort Myers already, preparing for my flight at 4:40pm the next day.
That's it for now, I guess...
Caitlin
Monday, May 14, 2007
I Found a Church!!
Well everyone, my fears as outlined in my previous blog entry have calmed as of yesterday. I recently came across a church in Innsbrueck, Austria called "Kirche im Kino" which is a church that meets in a cinema, has a band just like ours, and young people. I emailed them to ask if they knew of a church in Koblenz, Germany, where I'll be in the fall. This is what they emailed me back:
Liebe Caitlin,
ich kenne nur eine Freie Evangelische Gemeinde in Koblenz.
Über Google sicher zu finden, soll sehr gut sein.
Mit lieben Grüßen
Andreas
WHICH MEANS...
Dear Caitlin,
I only know of the Free Evangelistic (Non-denominational) Church in Koblenz. You'll surely find it in Google, it should be really good.
Many Greetings,
Andreas
So I went to the website and got to looking around and although I must admit it's not quite as cool as River Run, it IS non-denominational and contemporary. The best part is...GET READY...there is a young adult small group for 18-30 year olds! They meet every Thursday evening, and the normal service is at 10am. Its only 10km from the university, I think, so I could probably leave by 9am on my bike and get there on time.
I'm really excited! I was so, so, so anxious about it, as some of you know and may even share my concern, I am not as worried or anxious any more. I can't wait to get in touch with the small group and make some connections ahead of time. It might be easier to make the transition that way. Here's a picture from their homepage...
It means "God won't leave you hanging". The scripture says "Surrender all your worries to God! He will raise you up again, he will never leave one stranded that stays true to Him" (Psalm 55:23, I think, its hard to read!). I can't wait to get a German Bible!
On a side note, I'll be getting my German phone number soon, so when I go away in June/July you'll be able to reach me. My incoming calls are free :-).
Things are looking up. Still trying to work out some little details...but everything seems to be coming together! I'll know who my host family is soon!
Love,
Caiti-cait
WHICH MEANS...
Dear Caitlin,
I only know of the Free Evangelistic (Non-denominational) Church in Koblenz. You'll surely find it in Google, it should be really good.
Many Greetings,
Andreas
So I went to the website and got to looking around and although I must admit it's not quite as cool as River Run, it IS non-denominational and contemporary. The best part is...GET READY...there is a young adult small group for 18-30 year olds! They meet every Thursday evening, and the normal service is at 10am. Its only 10km from the university, I think, so I could probably leave by 9am on my bike and get there on time.
I'm really excited! I was so, so, so anxious about it, as some of you know and may even share my concern, I am not as worried or anxious any more. I can't wait to get in touch with the small group and make some connections ahead of time. It might be easier to make the transition that way. Here's a picture from their homepage...
It means "God won't leave you hanging". The scripture says "Surrender all your worries to God! He will raise you up again, he will never leave one stranded that stays true to Him" (Psalm 55:23, I think, its hard to read!). I can't wait to get a German Bible!
On a side note, I'll be getting my German phone number soon, so when I go away in June/July you'll be able to reach me. My incoming calls are free :-).
Things are looking up. Still trying to work out some little details...but everything seems to be coming together! I'll know who my host family is soon!
Love,
Caiti-cait
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Nerves
Hello,
Lately I've been harnessing some feelings about this trip thing.
First of all, I need to be armed and dangerous to battle Satan while I'm over there, or I'm dead meat. Well, I know I'll never be "dead meat" per se', especially if God is on my side, but you know what I mean.
I know I am supposed to do this. It could not have come at a better time in my life. Lately I've been thinking about how I have been here for so long and that what I need is to get out, which may be true. While it is dangerous to get "out there", I think it's just as dangerous to me spiritually to stay here and mope around the same place I've been almost my entire life. While some of my friends have moved out for college and gotten to experience getting used to a new place, I have never done that. I have NEVER been to a new place longer than three weeks of my entire life. To me, that is unacceptable.
I feel this longing to learn German, and I always have. From my studies I know the best way to attain fluency is to live in the country. For some reason, I have to do this. So I'm going to live in Germany. Wild, isn't it?
The thought, though, of getting out of Orlando thrills, yet terrifies me just as much. I need to spread my wings, learn how to catch trains and buses, live in a studio apartment, brave a cold winter, and run along side a river! I can't do those things here in Orlando.
Anyway... my life has been recently a little "blah". I have this theory that God is stripping my normal life from me without me noticing, and refusing to give me what I think I want at the moment. Which is fine, He's totally allowed to do that, well, because He's God and all. What I mean is, while I'm sitting here lamenting over the uneventfulness of my life at the moment, God is sitting there saying "Just you wait, you'll see!" And He is going to show me a new life, something I was meant to live. That's not to say I don't love my family and friends here. But my parents would be the first to tell you that they don't like it here much anymore either. So it's not just me.
Billy got a gig over in Germany for two months playing the keyboard, I think. I wonder if we'll be there at the same time, and we can visit each other.
Wrote back to Gabrielle today... can't wait for her and Tobias and Maxi und Maria to come!!
Tomorrow, Kerstin and I are meeting at Timber Creek to hang out with Frau Gildner. Joy is going to be teaching at TC next school year! How cool is that?
Well that's it for German news... I'll catch up later.
~Caiti~
Lately I've been harnessing some feelings about this trip thing.
First of all, I need to be armed and dangerous to battle Satan while I'm over there, or I'm dead meat. Well, I know I'll never be "dead meat" per se', especially if God is on my side, but you know what I mean.
I know I am supposed to do this. It could not have come at a better time in my life. Lately I've been thinking about how I have been here for so long and that what I need is to get out, which may be true. While it is dangerous to get "out there", I think it's just as dangerous to me spiritually to stay here and mope around the same place I've been almost my entire life. While some of my friends have moved out for college and gotten to experience getting used to a new place, I have never done that. I have NEVER been to a new place longer than three weeks of my entire life. To me, that is unacceptable.
I feel this longing to learn German, and I always have. From my studies I know the best way to attain fluency is to live in the country. For some reason, I have to do this. So I'm going to live in Germany. Wild, isn't it?
The thought, though, of getting out of Orlando thrills, yet terrifies me just as much. I need to spread my wings, learn how to catch trains and buses, live in a studio apartment, brave a cold winter, and run along side a river! I can't do those things here in Orlando.
Anyway... my life has been recently a little "blah". I have this theory that God is stripping my normal life from me without me noticing, and refusing to give me what I think I want at the moment. Which is fine, He's totally allowed to do that, well, because He's God and all. What I mean is, while I'm sitting here lamenting over the uneventfulness of my life at the moment, God is sitting there saying "Just you wait, you'll see!" And He is going to show me a new life, something I was meant to live. That's not to say I don't love my family and friends here. But my parents would be the first to tell you that they don't like it here much anymore either. So it's not just me.
Billy got a gig over in Germany for two months playing the keyboard, I think. I wonder if we'll be there at the same time, and we can visit each other.
Wrote back to Gabrielle today... can't wait for her and Tobias and Maxi und Maria to come!!
Tomorrow, Kerstin and I are meeting at Timber Creek to hang out with Frau Gildner. Joy is going to be teaching at TC next school year! How cool is that?
Well that's it for German news... I'll catch up later.
~Caiti~
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Excited for Beauty
I had lunch with a new friend on Friday, Kerstin. She lives in Koblenz but is getting her degree here. I'll say this was my first full-on conversation with someone in German, and it went just great. She got me all excited about the city... there seems to be every beautiful thing there...castles, rivers, forests, mountains! Loveliness all over! So NOT Orlando. I'm pretty sick of being here.
Kerstin said her parents have some items at home I can use while I'm in Koblenz, like bedclothes and towels and such. Things I'll definitely need!! That would be great.
Mom and I need to get a hotel room in Fort Myers for the Münster trip... need to get on that...
My hanging cosmetic bag came in the mail the other day! It is WUNDERBAR... coolest gadget ever, next to my new cell!
Another thing Kerstin said was that no one goes to church in Germany... it is also very boring. Only old people go. So I probably won't go. I need to figure something else out though... it will take MAJOR discipline but I NEED to guard my heart while I am there!!
That's all for now, its almost 1am and I have to get up in 6 hours!
Caiti
Kerstin said her parents have some items at home I can use while I'm in Koblenz, like bedclothes and towels and such. Things I'll definitely need!! That would be great.
Mom and I need to get a hotel room in Fort Myers for the Münster trip... need to get on that...
My hanging cosmetic bag came in the mail the other day! It is WUNDERBAR... coolest gadget ever, next to my new cell!
Another thing Kerstin said was that no one goes to church in Germany... it is also very boring. Only old people go. So I probably won't go. I need to figure something else out though... it will take MAJOR discipline but I NEED to guard my heart while I am there!!
That's all for now, its almost 1am and I have to get up in 6 hours!
Caiti
Scammed!
Well I tried to sell my Dell Laptop for money for the trip, but it didn't work out so well. Some loser on Ebay tried to scam me by sending me a fake PayPal notice. What a moron. I caught on of course, but only after I'd sent the package. Fortunately, I was able to retrieve the package. I'm not sure if I can get my money back for shipping, though... I'll fight for it, lame if I can't but at least I still have my computer...
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Win Some, Lose Some...
Well...
I didn't get the DAAD Scholarship. Ooohhh well. I'm sure someone else is happy, that may not have gotten to go if I had gotten the scholarship, ya know?
Today I received my packing cubes in the mail! Still waiting on some stuff...
I gotta find out how much luggage I can bring...
I'll be back!
Caiti-cait
I didn't get the DAAD Scholarship. Ooohhh well. I'm sure someone else is happy, that may not have gotten to go if I had gotten the scholarship, ya know?
Today I received my packing cubes in the mail! Still waiting on some stuff...
I gotta find out how much luggage I can bring...
I'll be back!
Caiti-cait
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