To Much Free Time

Now that I have settled into my life here in Germany and I feel comfortable I find that I have more and more time on my hands. I really should not complain! I know people are reading this right now and thinking, and no Im not trying to have a pity party. I am just simply stating I have more time then I know what to do with.

I have been a none top student sense I can remember. The goal was always to graduate from college and then get a job. Well somewhere in that plan I meet Greg and my life changed. Now I am in another country with a college degree and no job. Its been hard for me. I have no job to go to, no class to study for, no papers to write, nothing. It was like being on vacation at first but then you get over that feeling and you say to yourself, "now what."

I have been aimlessly searching the internet for work. I honestly thought it would be no problem. Boy was I wrong! Finding an at home job would not be so hard if I was in the US but throw into the mix that I live in another country...big time problem. Getting a job in the city I live in is impossible because everyone speaks german and all I can do is count to 10 and order coffee and pastries. The other problem being I do not have my visa yet so as of now I am an illegal alien (for all my friends, insert joke here) 

So for those of you who have gone to college you know your time there was not cheap and for the those lucky ones who foot their own bill you know you have six months till those lovely student loan payments kick in. Talk about pressure. Panic attacks have happened when I think about how much it cost to go to school. Greg being the one person I see everyday who gets to hear about it. Poor guy. But I could not ask for anyone better to be there for me. He is always by my side helping me get threw it and stay hopeful. So for now I am staying positive and praying that my one lead on a job works out, fingers crossed!!

I have now decided with my extra free time I will blog my little heart out! Keeping with that is an update on what Greg and I have been up to! A few weeks ago we took a trip to go visit a concintration camp. I have always loved history and museums and this was something I always wanted to see but never thought I would ever get a chance to do. The closest one to us was Dachau. It happens to be the first one ever opened here in Germany and was only 50 minutes away.

This was the entrance gates to the camp

We had planned to take a guided english tour but due to our lack to of energy that morning we had a late start and did not make it in time. Luckily everything there is translated into english and we read everything we could. Typical Greg and I, walked threw the gates and stood there trying to figure out where to start. We ended up looking at the whole thing back wards, shocker. The whole thing took us about two hours to see. It was an experience I will never forget and feel so grateful to have seen.

Greg had his first real away game. Usually they drive all day to get to away games and get home really late that night around 2 or 3am. This time the team they were playing was about 10 hours away so they left they day before. This was my first time being alone in the apartment for full night on my own. When it came time to sleep I decided the coach was a good idea sense I can keep the tv on. The strange part about that is I actually really hate the tv on when I sleep. We dont even have one in our room and when we did at our last place we would always turn it off before we would even try to fall asleep. But when I am alone you bet that tv is staying on. I slept like crap and finally at 6am I was woken up by a Justin Beiber music video and a stiff neck. I figured sense the sun was coming up I was ok to sleep in our big bed alone. The second night alone I stayed up till 4am watching Magic Mike and then forced myself to sleep in the room because my neck could not handle another night on the coach.

We also celebrated our first big holiday away from our families. Thanksgiving fell on a Thursday which was the night before a game so we decided to celebrate that fallowing Monday with some of the imports. Greg and I volunteered to have it at our place so that meant I had to make dinner for everyone. I was slightly nervous but everything turned out pretty good! It was nice to hang out with everyone and have our own little celebration.

We have now entered December which means Greg finally got rid of his mustache, thank god!! It also means it is time to break out our advent calendar we got courtesy of the Starbulls!

Who can honestly say they don't like to wake up every morning to a piece of chocolate! Greg will never know the joy, there is only one small piece a day and I am not sharing. He knows how much I love chocolate and he also knows what would happen if he tried to eat it! Can't wait for the morning so I can eat another piece!!!