Ah~ why is the text for an excerpt we have to make for Japanese history about Tokugawa ECONOMY?! If I were any good in numbers I would have studied that. Oh well, somehow I always manage in the end.
After all, this is the time to shine and be creative and innovative and inspiring and...
I really wish my application would allow me to write 4000 words not characters about myself XD~ I'm at this phase at the moment where I keep editing my personal statement every time I open it. When I'm in a good mood I add a little humour, but then next time I feel it has to be more serious and cut out the fun bits. And then I feel it gets boring. And then I add long words and weird sentence structures because I've just come back from a train ride with Oscar Wilde. And then I remember that it has to sound simple enough...
Argh.

OMKami, before I dive into the raging sea of national income produced in the 1860's numbers, I'll do something I have been planning on doing for a long time~ Which is post some pictures.
But I don't have the bathroom included yet... And I still haven't revealed what the TARDIS actually is. I just know it's going to be SO anti-climatic
( My rabbits have transformed into lions! )
Back to homework now.
Speaking of seas, anybody who is interested in Janne Da Arc's song 'Blue Tear ~人魚の涙~' should read Oscar Wilde's "The Fisherman and his soul". The first half of the story is similar to the lyrics. I like stories about mermaids =3
(The other half of the story wouldn't have made a very good song. If yasu did read it, I'm glad he left the weird stuff out, hahaha)

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I am so disappointed with myself right now. I know there are many things that I can't do, and I'm not upset when I don't manage them, but when it comes to things I know I can do and then failing... Urgh.
I'm talking about my annual sports badge for which you have to get certain marks in different disciplines. I wasn't as good as in previous years this year because I hadn't done any training in China for a whole year, so I could accept that. I got all the necessary points needed except for sprinting and shotput.

I started to panic, because my arms just wouldn't get the damn shot over 6,50m, and after almost pulling a muscle in training once after I had come back, I was afraid to run fast.
Sometimes you can do other things instead, so I thought instead of shot put I could do gymnastics, where all I had to was do a handstand and an upstart on the horizontal bar. I felt so sure I could make it after last Saturday, where I met with my trainer, I ran like a bat out of Hell just and ran over the finish line one half a second under the required time.

But today it turns out I might have to swim for my life badge, because I was a failure at the bar. My arms just wouldn't listen and I now feel stupid for bursting into tears in front of the children I was supposed to be supervising. They tried to cheer me up, but the fact that they got up there without any problems at all didn't exactly make me feel better.

Oh, complaining about it here doesn't make things better either, but I don't have many people to talk to who understand~ when I'm not happy with my sports results. I know I'm not the best and it's not the most important thing in the world, but it's important to me that I get that badge. Hmpf.

OK, happy things start here

I really enjoyed the Abingdon Boys School concert in Bochum last Tuesday, and "Taka" he's so small! seemed genuinely delighted to be there, too. It was so nice, because everybody had room to move and dance and jump. Even me, in the third row!! 8D
I met some nice people and I gave away some of my earplugs, as I had six pairs with me. Two girls (or young ladies) told me about the signing A.B.S. had earlier I didn't know about and they were so happy Takanori had come to Bochum. They even got to talk to him and showed me some pictures. They managed to make me rather jealous! XD I also met a girl in my university course while waiting in line, Valentina.
I bought a T-shirt, clever as I am, after I had put my bag in the storage room, but it luckily fit into my trouser pocket and nobody paid attention to the awkard bulge while Taka was on stage anyway. Though I have to admit... I was paying more attention to Sunao, who I think is rather handsome in person. *cough* XD~

Making up for his size Taka has a huge voice! And he spoke some German for us, too! I had to laugh when all of the band members listed up some things they associated with Germany. Sauerkraut, Steffi Graf, Beethoven, ... and of course,
ソーセージ!
They also congratulated us for the fall of the Berlin Wall (in German) and they had been in Berlin on the day before. I loved it when Taka was introducing his band members, pointed at Sunao and said: "this is my horse", and then they struck a pose like one of the statues on the Brandenburg Gate.
Other things we got to hear were:
"Ihr seid so geil!" You guys are so awesome!
"Wir lieben euch!" We love you!
"Dass ihr gekommen seid!" That you came! (There was a "Thank you" missing at the beginning of the sentence, but he had said that in Japanese already, so we knew what he meant)
"Ich war in Köln und habe Kölsch getrunken!" I was in Cologne and drank some Kölsch! A beer speciality brewed in Cologne. LOL.
I didn't manage to shake hands at the end, but apart from the wild pogo mob bumping into us occasionally, I had a wonderful time! I was so happy to make them feel happy~ Oh, and they had a new song for us, too~.

Later I caught the bus with Valentina. I had the feeling they would come out again after the lights had gone out (which they did I later found out), but I had a train to catch.
V: "I thought you didn't know a lot of songs by them, yet you sang along to every one."
Colle: "Well, sometimes I can guess the next word in Japanese songs, and it's easy to just sing along with the last vowel sung..."
V: "...I did the exact same thing, I was just moving my mouth."
LOL. The things you do to be part of the crowd. But I really had a great time. =3
Oh yasu, come to Germany, but bring a silencer (e.g. sock) for my mouth, because I'll be howling along liek woah

I have a few other things to get off my chest, but this will do for now. I shall now download my homework and enjoy the peace a quiet of an empty house, with no children.

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EDIT: Mince Pie does wonders for my soul.

Where to start?!

The bathroom is finished, at least we can use it again and I think it looks fantastic. The bath is huge and I've already spent a wonderful evening in it with Dorian Gray (I'm now finished with him now, though, he just wouldn't write back and kept babbling something about a painting).
I've already tried out the TARDIS, but only in one function. I have yet to find the button that allows me to travel through space-time. Would anybody here like to guess what I mean with "TARDIS"? =3

There is however one thing that arrived that had me a little stupified, and that was the arrival of the warp core new boiler. I knew it was going to be too big to fit upstairs. My parents told me it was going to be big.
But that didn't prepare me for the sheer BIGness it evokes now that it is installed in the living room, which was my mother's decision. It sort of looms at you, even though my mother has made efforts to conceal it behind some bookshelves. I was thinking about hanging a curtain around it. It's just so ridiculously huge. And as I anticipated, my father isn't happy with its location.

Other than that, Kirmes (the annual fair) is on. I haven't been in any rides yet, but I made sure to eat some of the obligatory snacks yesterday and ran into some friends on the little medival market. Note to self: eat after dancing around to band's music.

I spoke with my father and he's also put me off going on more rides than necessary, but for financial reasons. I was never the kind to spend a lot of money on the Kirmes, but this time I have a vision of the future that has me in England and I don't want to rely on my parents support longer than I need to...
My professor said that the university can write a reference for me, even though they've only known me for about a month, and I'm already drafting my personal statement that only needs to be 4000 characters long, not words. ^^x* My mistake.

I think pictures will be in order for the next post.
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Well, I did it. An An Café fan who knows A LOT about politics (which I admire her for) mentioned that Abingdon Boys School were playing in Bochum.
Now, I haven't been to a concert in ages. So I thought about it, checked the date and time, listened to a couple of songs, my credit card still had some dosh on it, and so I came to the conclusion that I didn't really have a reason not to go.
I just ordered the ticket. Yay, I get to see Takanori Nishikawa live~

...Does anyone want to come along? This was rather spontaneous of me, haha.

On the other hand it's Halloween and I'm at home, just finished typing a reasonable draft of my homework and have no plans whatsoever to leave the house yet.
I think it's because of the cake I had in the café with my grandparents. It was their 57th wedding anniversary and my mother and I went to meet them there. It was nice to see them, even though they nag each other so much at home, I know they really care for each other. My mother and I are aware that it is possible this might be their last wedding anniversary together, so we do look in on them every now and then.
A few days ago my mother took the four little bunnies round for them to look at, I couldn't come along, but my grandmother was delighted and gave us Subway coupons.
Now if only Subway was closer to our home or at least on a route I take into town~ *so lazy*
One day, I should open a sandwich restaurant and call it "Chickatett's" and see if anybody gets the joke.

I'm telling you, that cake really put it there. I think I actually will go running tomorrow morning, not just because of the cake, but I also want to be in a bit more shape for the traditional New Years Eve Run.
I've made it a habit of running that run in costume, this time I hope to have my maid outfit finished by then ^,^x. It's going to have little wings on the back~
♪ シルビア　僕と君の白い翼まだ小さいから...♫♪

The annual fair is also going to start on Monday, so I predict it'll be IMPOSSIBLE to get back home from university next week. At least comfortably. I'll try and make it to the little medival market they set up nowadays in the evenings, so I'll dig out the appropriate garments for that, too.

I'm glad I did my homework now, I almost forgot about it because I was preoccupied with sorting things out for my application to England. 4, 000 words about myself... I can do that. It's the reference thing I'm worried about. I have nice things said about me from China, but as I've started to study at university now, they'll be expecting an academic reference again. But my professors hardly know me yet.
Oh well, better tell them about my plans soon. ...But I did give my history professor a plaster because he'd accidently cut himself. It had elephants on it. But it was the only one I had.
*shrugs*

I sound like a miserable git. I'm going to sit down and sew now.
After all, Germany didn't always celebrate Halloween like this. Ten years ago no one cared.
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"In English we have the terms BC and AD, but there are efforts to get the religious elements out of history, so the English also use...?"
-silence-
*Colle doesn't have a clue* Before...?
Yes, "before" is a good start, what comes next?
-silence, people are pretending to write stuff down- (eventually, we got to "common")
So, we have BC...? Think of a latinized word for time.
-no, not tempus, temporal, time period...-
Ah! A different word for period!

OK, so this was an awkward moment. No, I did not say "menstruation", since I am grown-up and know exactly what he meant and he didn't mean it in any other way. It's just a Latin word that has many meanings.
Till whispered "bleeding".

It was already hard enough not to think of the conversation of DUELS ON MOTORBIKES which was so ridiculous I had to surpress giggles already. This really tested me.
I had a good laugh when we got outside, though. meroham can vouch for that.

I've finished reading "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". If the song from the movie hadn't been so cynically cheery, I think I would have cried at the end. Then again, I always feel wierd when I've finished reading a long book.
In many ways Arthur reminds me of Rincewind. All they want to do is lead a normal life and they get dragged into the most absurd adventures ev4r. I think I have a weak spot for antiheroes like that. Now I want to watch the film again~ Now I regret not buying it in China ^^x*
Right now I'm reading Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray". I heard there's a film of that, too. I'd like to see it when I'm finished, which should be in two weeks if I continue to read one chapter on every train ride from Soest to Dortmund and back.
A film I did watch recently is the Pop...ess(?!) Does the English language have a word for a female pope? Anyway, the English title is "Pope Joan" (I just checked). I really liked it. Since my mother is doing gender studies at university, I recommended it to her.
I just had a Discworld moment when the scene with the doors closing was on. I was all "SMALL GODS!!" inside my head, though Terry Pratchett probably got the idea from this story, not the other way round.
Just like the time they mentioned turtles falling from the sky in QI. OMSmall Gods!!

The bathroom is coming along nicely, we didn't give the tiler a lot of instructions, just a pile of tiles and maybe a few instructions and he did a wonderful job! I can't wait to try out all the new facilities, especially the TARDIS we ordered.
(There will be more information on that last item later)

I shall now indulge in a recorded episode of a panal show of my choice before catching the train with Dorian Gray.
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Btw, it was "Before Common Era", BCE. I don't think it's something I'll forget quickly, AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Oi, I can't do my homework for Japanese history, as Wikipedia has no entry on "Karako site" (some archaeological site of the Yayoi period). No, I'm not being lazy, I'm supposed to check out Wiki and compare the German and English entries to a proper encyclopedic entry from a really proper book.
Oh man, and here I thought I'd make myself feel good using my internet time wisely and do my homework. I shall contact my professor and ask him what to do now, because I don't think "I couldn't do my homework because it didn't exist" would go down well. Though coming up with a 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' type of excuse has style, in a way. Since that's what I'm currently reading on my way to university. ★

Meanwhile: ( Ode to tears of joy )

I shall turn to meroham, who writes her "っ"s much smaller than necessary.
옷 옷 옷 옷 옷 옷 옷 옷 옷 옷 옷 옷 옷 옷 옷 옷 옷 옷 옷 (This is my army. It defends me from Internet Horrors.)
The 우유송 (Uyu Song!)
I'm afraid "kiyoちゃんの　ぎゅうにゅう" is no longer up on YouTube~ But this is the song I had stuck in my head the other day. ♫♪I need love~ 8D

Oh, and one more thing: ぢ, づ, ぃ, ぁ, ぅ, ぇ, ぉ yay, it works!
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I'm sorry everybody! This is going to be an annoying post about things I find amusing.
And probably only me.
Normal life (?) will resume after the cut.
( ANTM, Star Trek, University & Parrots )
So I've come to terms with the fact that I'll only be doing Japanese history this semester, I've spoken with my parents, so if all works out, I'll finish my B.A. in England, probably Huddersfield, with event management. It's a line of work I've considered since my 11th grade.
I SWEAR CAPTAIN PICARD HAS NO INFLUENCE ON MY CHOICE. Just imagining being stuck in a lift with him is just so weird

I'm sorry that this post was so utterly stupid.
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*looks at curriculum* OK, I have 13 lessons. During the whole week.
Because I only have Japanese.

On the plus side, this means I'm not overworked and can take things easy.
On the down side... I don't feel like being here is worth the 700€ for only Japanese history. I have applied for an optional course that would get me 5 CP this semester. But it's on Saturdays, but as I said, I seem to have more free time than I'd like to have.
Oh the irony. Last post I was complaining about having less time. By now you should know that I always end up eating my words.

I guess it's always the question of what you do with that time. Of course I want to have time to watch the occasional show in the evenings, but I also need to feel like I'm doing something useful.
Currently, I come home to an empty house, as my parents are working (or studying) and my siblings are absent. I hardly see anyone. It's a bit depressing.
Now moving to Bochum, which I've thought about, for those 13 lessons wouldn't necessarily make me happier.
It seems like the life of a student is driven by the urge to party. I wonder how many rainforests you could save with all the flyers that are handed out daily. I'm not a party person.

I wish I had this impulse sooner (but then I wouldn't have met Sophia and Alexandra), I think I really will go to England and do an apprenticeship. I can always learn Japanese. I can always go back and study something else later in life.
I shall make enquiries.

( Oh, you just come here for the bunnies XD )
No worries, I will do this semester! Maybe I'll feel different when it's over.
My mind is so chaotic. How I envy people who know what they want to do with their life.

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There's something calming about watching Nikodemus hop around his mother and trying to nibble at things. They're all so active now, I'm afraid I'll come home from university one day and find that they've already grown up~

There still remains hope for sneaking into media studies, but I'm still not at ease about things. Nasty thoughts are sneaking into my head like what'll happen if I don't like media studies after all? What am I even going to do when I'm finished? Can't I just join Starfleet? Where am I going to work later?

OK, I'm not the first person to ask these questions, and I do have some good news:
I've met some cool people, such as meroham! I don't meet a lot of people who know about LJ, so yay~! Highlight of the day was when I raised my hand for all those stuck in theology because they couldn't get the second subject they wanted and asked whether we really have to do this now, or if we could just stay away and do something else, such as collect CPs (credit points) in optional courses?
It turns out we can just stay away.

Why does Mortima always knock her bowl over? Why are Cardassians so hot? How does my mother study and work as a nurse at night?
Hm, come to think of it, I think I'm rather pampered from China... I'm trying to ignore the little voice in my head telling my that the days of watching panel shows in the mornings are numbered. I wonder what English lessons in school would have been like if I had known about series such as 'Jeeves & Wooster' back then. But I was too busy worrying about my Abi to watch British comedy.
And so it all begins again... Farewell Sky Digi Box. I shall be using your recording function more frequently. XD

Heck, if all things go wrong, I'll actually do English. Because that I can do. I'd get to speak English in my final exam. And I'm warming up to the thought of working in England (next to Japan) one day.
Ask me again in a few weeks or months, my mind seems to be fluttering all over the place, anyway.

It's か き く け こ Time tomorrow for the first time.
Finally I'll have something to do besides paperwork and worrying.
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I have no idea how to describe the last week.
I wanted to write about how I went to the cinema with Yuuki last Saturday to see "Wickie", but stuff got in the way. Mainly life and people.

I must say I really liked Wickie, the casting was really great, I recognized all of the characters instantly, even though I hadn't watched Wickie in well over a decade. Should it ever be subbed or dubbed into English/ Chinese, whatever, it's a great children's film that was enjoyable for the parents and other grown-up children watching, too.
Yuuki and I stayed until the end singing along to the (remixed) song.
Ah, they just don't make them like they used to...

Now, without further ado, before I get pulled out of the comforting wraps of the internet again:
( on to THE CUTENESS!!!! )
As for life at the moment... Oh God.
I'm so glad my sister now took Lolli with her, because it always broke my heart to have him outside all by himself with the pigs. That's one thing off my mind.
I went to the No0b-meeting for all the people starting in the Asia faculty, and as I suspected, everybody is in denial about their like of either anime or some band. And I get the feeling it's some kind of competition of who already knows the most 漢字. Other than that, we're all scared shitless and I've lost a lot of sleep because I'm still worrying about getting into media studies.

Have a few more thing to mention, but your mind is probably still trying to cope with the previous cuteness.
Until then, I'll try not to have any of the spontanious emo-outburts I've been having.
I have to find comfort with the fact that life goes on, and I'm not the only new girl.
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My father's advice: Don't let the f*ckers let you down!!
Plus, I have an army of rabbits to back me up.

On Sunday shortly after noon, Colle writes a message to her sister:
"Bally, I have a surprise for you"
Moments later the phone rings. It's her:

"What? What? What? Tell me what it is!!!"
- If I told you it wouldn't be a surprise now, would it. Come home and have a look.
# Oh my God, is it good news, or bad news?
- I think you'll find it's good news.
# Is *********** in hospital?!
- *pauses to wonder about her sister's definition of good news...* No.
# Did one of the pigs die?!
- *wonders again* No.
# Are you pregnant?!!
- NO!~!!!1!1! I said GOOD news!
# Give me a hint~! Please please please~~~!
- No, come home and have a look.
# Oh please~~~~ D=
- Fine. Pick a nice name beginning with 'N'. *hangs up*.
(Moments later the phone rings again)
# BABY RABBITS?!
- *hangs up*

I am so evil. XD~ Yes, they are here~~ I haven't taken any pictures yet, since Mortima is relativley new to me and I have the feeling she doesn't trust me as much as my previous rabbits did, so I haven't poked around in her nest. My sister did though, and she counted four tiny little naked rabbits.
She's not angry with me that I took Mortima away for four days and she hadn't noticed, she just felt embarrassed. Whatever, after watching Futurama, she called hers Nibbler, my brother came in later to visit with his daughter and he dubbed one Nephelin and I... Well my mother and I were joking around at the time, but I feel more and more inclined to call one "Nutrition". The forth one will go to Anna, who had the idea in the first place. Her's will be called
Speedy.

Not quite down my lane of rabbit names, but we'll give the forth one a different name until then. It might even be that one of the other three becomes Speedy...
Names I had written down:
Nevan/ Navarr, Noonien/ Noïn, Nikita, Nigelina/ Nicole, Nagare/ Nao/ Niji, Nikodemus or 奶油nǎiyóu (cream)
I kind of like Nikodemus, though I don't remember where it's from.

Fact is that I'll wait a few more days before I peek in the nest and take a look myself. I haven't had the time yet, since I was still working and I can't seem to be by myself because an old friend of mine is hiding out here.

There will be pictures soon, I promise =3
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My mother and I brought Mortima inside now. We told my sister it's because we think she has a cold. I can't believe she still doesn't know what's going on.
Mortima prefers to lie on her side now and when she does you can see she has a round tummy~ The babies are going to be SO CUTE~! XD

I think I'll have a quiet day today. After sports I plan to watch that Fawlty Towers DVD my father brought back for me.

...I shouldn't have eaten all those Chinese noodles from last night. ~@_@x~
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If you live in Germany: ~GO VOTE TOMORROW~

Urgh, tired for some reason, even though I have the feeling I got more sleep than usual last night.
Fridays are long days for me since I go to the children's P.E. lessons afterward. And now my arms hurt because I tried out a routine I saw a young group of girls do at a sports festival.

This morning I got new pictures taken for my ID card and applyied for a new one. The man was kind enough to fix my skin XD~ I tried to wait for a time where I looked better, but my old card won't be valid for much longer.
I hope I'll look OK for tomorrow, because I'll transform into EDEN~yasu~!Colle and go to the Connichi with yumi_chin!! YAY~~ 8D I'll have to see if I can wear the red latex trousers or if I'll cheat and wear the red skirt. I don't expect anyone to recognize me, but the skirt does get more pictures taken... tihihihi~

I've also changed my first nappy this week. It was... an enlightening experience. >>x*
Other wise Valerie is cute as ever and is a good girl and sleeps when she's here. I can't wait till she'd old enough for me to teach her things XD

My sister STILL doesn't know anything of "Operation Rabbit N", but I have to prepare the cage for Mortima this week and I haven't come up with a good excuse yet.
Then again, there's also the chance that she won't even notice. ^^x*

A friend of mine has Devil May Cry 4 to play and has invited me over... but I just feel so tired right now =_=x
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( Drunk Dracula )
Oh yasu, I hope you're OK and you'll be on stage again soon~.

Colle

You know when I told you all Hell would be unleashed as soon as I have to deal out the laundry by myself?
Well, it has happened.

Friday was my first day by myself and to my shock and horror: No bed sheets. At all.
Friday is the day we have to fill the cupboards to the brim because the laundry has to last until Monday, since I don't work on weekends. So I'd have no bed sheets for the hospital for the whole weekend, unless I make a phone call and ask the company what excuses they had for me.
I had to wait until my aunt showed up to show me how the phone worked. I may sound like an idiot, but I couldn't make the calls go beyond the hospital, because I wasn't trained to deal with emergencies. I must have perplexed a few patients whilst dialling the numbers scribbled onto the wall. One of them had to be the right one, right?

It turns out they had a computer meltdown and all the data was lost.
In the end, they did send someone with spare sheets, but I still got screamed at from all sides...
Nurse: You didn't order enough
wretched little Colle: No, I ordered enough, it just didn't arrive...
After all, I usually order more than really necessary...

I thought things can only get better. But when I came in for work today the new laundry hadn't arrived yet, bed sheets were still a rare item and the yound Indian lady who does the beds and gets paid according to how many she makes was getting really impatient.
The guy did come... but no bed sheets.
We still had some of the spare ones, but I don't get any in the delivery tomorrow, things could get pretty ugly.
At least my aunt is on my side.

Other than that, I had an acceptable weekend.
Zombie-boy likes me to call him "13th Coffin" NOT "13th Grave", my mother is better than me at shotput, my sister is being a drama queen because her wisdom teeth are getting in the way of a party, and some posh clubs won the cash prizes of the 'Club of the Year' award so I stood in the rain for nothing. Later I was dragged into Ice Age 3.
I admit it was funny (I like Otto Waalkes! XD) and it was my first 3D film, but I would have preferred "Wickie und die starken Männer". I already loved the trailer!
When I was little, I thought Wickie was a girl...

Highlight was of course finding my way into Warstein (you might know the beer) to visit Stefanie and Lara. Unfortunately Warstein was practically CLOSED due to the Mongolfiade, the huge international hot air balloon festival. Oh God, driving. Oh God the friggin' HILLs in Warstein! But watching the fireworks and the balloons was worth it. *gasp* Are my almonds still in the car?! >>x*
It was so nice to see the two again. They paid for my ride on the bull. I was wearing Stefanie's sweater and she said I could keep it if I could stay on long enough.
It really is harder than I thought. I fell off after about 1:28 minutes. But I got to keep the sweater. It goes really well with the bilious green trousers I was wearing. XD
(Yes, I might have had more friends in school if we'd had school uniforms...)
Lara is going to Bochum university too, so hopefully we'll see each other there.

I'm going to leave it there now. Hope that tomorrow will involve bed sheets.
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I always manage to break my internet when my father is home. My wireless is refusing to work, so I currently have his little device that let's me have internets in my USB port. Don't let me down now.

Such a boring weekend, raining and I haven't really done much. Than again, I can only blame myself for not calling on people and asking what they're doing and if they've got time. Christina stopped by last night and we watched "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" together. I only recorded it because I thought the guy in the advert was rather handsome and it turned out to star Antonio Banderas and Johnny Depp. Hurrah.
Don't ask me about the story though, I wasn't in the mood for complicated plots. Christina tried to make it more transparent for me, but as everything seemed to work out in the end (except for Johnny losing his eyes) it wasn't that tragic.
I still have to watch Star Trek.

Now that my father's home, he's shown me a few series he thought were funny, such as "The Inbetweeners", which features a group of teenage boys getting into all sorts of trouble. Not quite my cup of tea, but funny nonetheless. He also brought back the first season of "Fawlty Towers" starring John Cleese for me which I will watch when I feel like I deserve it. Because I've been watching too many other things like "Have I Got News For You" and all the other things you can find on 'Dave'. Yes. I'm that kind of person. What kind of a name for a channel is that, anyway? Dave?

It seems that Lara (my colleague in China) is going to go to the same university as me, so hopefully we'll see each other there. I'm also glad I'm not the only one having problems looking through the documents we got after selling our souls signing in. ^^x*
All will work out. I still have a little time. *mantra*

Our successors have arrived in China! I wonder which one got my flat... I left the Gegege no Kitaro song on my door XD. It's good that Daniel is still there to show them around. Steffi wrote to me saying that they've already asked for W-LAN. No. I'm afraid you'll have to do what I did and put your laptop on your drawers at the foot of your bed if you want internet in bed.

As for my job: I can't believe how some people act like kindergarteners when it comes to wearing the uniforms. My aunt is responsible for handing them out and she gets so many complaints along the lines of "I don't like the new colour!", "How dare you give me the larger size!", "Why do we have to wear the same colour as the students?!", "There's already a name in it!"...
Urgh. There's nothing she can do about it, folks. Wear the uniform for work, go home and wear what you like. You're not supposed to look pretty at work, it's so that the patients know who's a nurse and who's just helping out like I do.
And I'd be so much faster if people stopped talking to me. Granted, if I were there for longer, I'd like some friends, but I'm only helping out for a month so don't ask me for an opinion on your hair and keep me there for half an hour. Please. Breakfast is over at 10!

While I still have time before university, I'm also helping out with children's P.E. lessons on Friday. Some children who still knew me were disappointed because I hadn't remembered their names, but there were a few new faces there as well. Like Zombie-Boy.
(to boy in front) "I'll absorb your soul!"
You'll do what?
"Absorb his soul. ...But I don't know what it means..."
Cutest zombie, ever. I bet his parents or brother play WoW or something. I had to explain to him that zombies are undead, not dead. Oh, and he couldn't infect me with pestilence because I had declared the bouncy mat a sanatized area. And that crocodiles would eat him if he didn't leave Alexander's soul alone and climb up the ladder already.


Tea. It's great for just about anything, really. I don't like peppermint, though. I prefer herbs like camomile, fruit or winter spices (these without sugar). Of course I like to drink that typical English Tea (with milk and sugar), too, but that's more like a snack for me than a remedy for the sniffles.

Colle

Oh man. Leave it to me to have my laptop survive China and then almost destroy it by dripping tea over it.
But Lappy still lives, so all is well. ^^x*

I've started to think of people as creatures that keep me away from the internet, be it the aunt that drops in for a surprise visit and lecture on politics, the little sister that wants me to take her somewhere (the downside to a driver's lisence) or parents urging you outside because the sun is shining. And of course there are times when I'm just too tired to be bothered.
Well, the sun isn't shining today and I have training in a moment.

Just now when I want to mention so many things, so just bear with me~
I've now started my job-for-a-month in the hospital delivering clean laundry to all of the wards. So it's a pretty important job considering the ER needs clean stuff everyday and we bring it. At the moment I'm just helping out the lady that usually does it by herself to be sufficiently trained for when she goes on holiday somewhere. Then I'll be all by myself.
So if you hear horrible news about the hospital in Soest, it'll probably be my fault.

We had some elections on Sunday and I still feel like I'm lost. We kept our mayor, so at least a certain candidate who's daughter I know and hate didn't win. Later this month we'll have some more elections on a larger scale. I'll try to do some homework for those.
These days it's like voting for the lesser evil, anyway.

yumichin took me to Münster on Saturday, where she was invited to a photoshoot involving corsetts. The guy put one on me too. X_Ox Taking one off is a definition of Freedom in Colle's DIKSHONERY.
Freedom (noun):
1. a song by Janne Da Arc
2. go Watch 'V for Vendetta' if you haven't seen it
3. taking off a corsett

And, to make things more interesting, I'll just show you guys a bunch of random pictures so I don't have to babble so much.
( lookies )
I still don't feel like I've mentioned everything, but I've wasted enough of your time already. It's raining, so now I'll have to decide if I want to go to training by car or bike.
I'll worry about that later. I'm rather distracted now...
If my sister doesn't come home soon, I can eat her tuna steak!
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THERE'S A TECHNO-REMIX VERSION OF Boy Meets Girl'S 'Waiting for a star to fall'?! *defiantly listens to original version on mp3 player*
...And I've just noticed what a horrible sister I am XD~

I didn't have time to surf all weekend! not to mention now, but I thought I'd pop round and write some things down.

Medival festival was a great success.
I was a volunatary victim for the executioner because his original one couldn't make it.
I got 6€ for whining around. =3
Don gave me a cute manga with a disturbing title: Mama Colle.
The things in said manga remind me of Tribbles.
The newspaper put a picture of me in the pillory.
According to them, my name is Sarah (the irony: I was complaining to the executioner guy that I always have to spell my name and people still get it wrong).
Next to Baby Valerie we have plans for baby rabbits.
My sister doesn't know about them yet.
In fact, she still hasn't noticed that I've brought her rabbit Mortima to my friend's house, where handsome Bobinski is hopping around in the cage next to her.

I promise I'll be online more when the weather starts to suck XD~
That's it for now, I have to go check how Mortima is doing.
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It's not usual to get calls at 7 o'clock in the morning, so it was bound to be something urgent/ special/ crazy/ horrifying/ to do with aliens or naked dancing frolicking fairies.
I'm not in the hospital right now, my mother went earlier and brought my brother some food since he's been up since 5 o'clock and hasn't eaten yet.
Tomorrow I might see a tiny little baby with tiny little fingers =3

Apart from that I feel bad because I haven't been online that often~
But I made Mona happy by giving her her Qipao, went to training again, appeared in the newspaper, met with the people going to China this year and warned them gave them advice and...
I have a job for September~ Yay.

And today, I'm meeting with a friend to... trade Pokemon.
Life at the moment... Is pretty relaxed (if you don't pay attention to all the news *sigh*).
I just hope it picks up before I'm left alone with my thoughts too much ^^x*
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I have a headache~

Today I had an interview with our local newspaper about my stay in China. The guy interviewing me was also there for a year, so it was nice to have a person who knew what you were talking about. To my surprise, they also made a radio interview!
Well, it's an online radio podcast thing, but I was nervous like hell. I had this headset on and this voice spoke to me and I talked normally in front of a microphone. Though it was one of those friendly radio voices, so it wasn't that bad.
I even got to say their radio jingle. In Chinese. I just hope it's right >>x*
The interview will be on tomorrow, he said; The site can be found here: http://yourzzfm.de/t3website/

Ha! And my sister just called in to say that she'll be in the newspaper tomorrow as well, promoting some activities at the lake. LOL
I still need a picture of us both together wearing our Qipao.
I'll eat something and lie down now. My head is giving me the dizzies. I blame the weather.
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