Hmmm, how did it get to be the end of October already? Or anyway after the middle. I am in my third week of school, German level 5. We have a had such a flurry of activity in the last month that I have jetlag. Now, finally, we are two days in to a normal schedule. I even have time to change the sheets on the bed and nic is going to vacuum later! This morning we stayed in bed until 11am, after waking up at 8:30. delicious.

Last week was an amazingly full one, we found and were bought for our wedding present by Mama and Papa, A CAR! She is sooooo pretty.  She is a Opel Corsa, three years old, 19.000 kilometers, cd player, working heat and a/c, standard transmission, two doors, sweet little sexy thing. Star silver is her color, so we're calling her stella. Isn't she pretty?

                          
Then I got my working papers and my permission to stay for three years (after which i can apply for permanent residence). Oh and german health care. I also am maybe getting a job cooking at  a cafe on Sundays, once I get up the nerve to actually call the woman and speak to her in German. Which I am terribly shy and nervous about of course, it being my first job in a new country and the first one I have had ti find for myself in, oh, 8 or 9 years.

So, I will be more available to be writing again and posting rather more than as of late. The weather is getting cooler and cooler and is actually cold at night. It is fall, the sky is gray and rainy today. It may snow. And yet there is a life being born here for us to live. I am so curious to see what will happen next and how long it will take me to feel comfortable speaking German and feeling like I am a whole person here...it is getting better- married, car, possible job, starting massage again in january, going to school....but there is still a feeling of being mostly two dimensional in the world. Making things with my hands always helps that and being busy like I have been doesn't give me the time to slow down and make things...i have to call my spinning teacher and practice the treadle on my spinning wheel, "until I can do it in my sleep", she says.