It’s been a while
Goodness I haven’t even touched this blog for over 4 months! Feel kinda bad. Just that my other blog is just so convenient and more people visit and leave comments and messages for me there. The problem with this blog is that only Friendster members can comment on it. Kinda sucks that way and that was the biggest reason why I left it for a new one. I had intended to keep writing here from time to time though… and I barely kept that up for a year. Sometimes posting something different and sometimes making double/repeat posts both here and in my other blog. Honestly I’m a little ashamed… There’s a very good reason I didn’t want to get rid of this blog… many sentimental reasons… nostalgia… records of my first days away from my family for the first time… memories of how it was being a newlywed… How it was being in a new place, a new country where I didn’t speak the language, happy moments, unemployment, depression, homesickness… There were good and bad times all contained in a little over a year’s worth of posts here in my Friendster blog.
I’ve moved on to somewhat better times. A bit more settled here in Switzerland. I’ve come a long way and yet in some ways not much has changed. I’m still "technically" unemployed. I’ve got myself a small thing where I dog sit for a lady who pays me piddles a day. I can understand a fair amount and speak some of the language here. It’s been almost 3 years after all! Would be awful if I STILL didn’t know how to communicate here without saying "Sprechen Sie Englisch?" especially since we spent truckloads of money taking German language lessons every day for my first 6 months here. While I’ve more or less stopped learning German actively, Kwang continues to listen to podcasts and buy language phrasebooks etc. I wonder if he’s disappointed in me playing the good little Hausfrau?
BAH! This isn’t really the time to be feeling down and thinking of these past things… Time to move on. I’m earning some pocket money dog sitting. We’re traveling a little more. Seen more of Switzerland and a little bit of Germany. Looking forward to Italy in a little over a week’s time! YES! I’m off to Italy! I should say WE’re off to Italy! Not just Kwang and I "we".
My mum and MIL (mother in law) are visiting for 5 weeks! They arrive Tuesday next week and I hope I survive it! No doubt their presence will put a lot of pressure on us all. Small place, 1 bedroom, no privacy. Setting the mothers up in our bedroom, and we’ll take the living room with an inflatable bed. If things work out the way they’re supposed to, my cousins will be visiting too for a few days, they’re flying from Canada to visit family in Germany, and coming to Bern a few days. I’ll be a tight squeeze for sure! I’ve mixed emotions about this… tensions running pretty high already and nobody’s even here yet!! I’m alternating between excitement and dread… Pray nothing goes wrong.
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