It's been a while...

It indeed has been a while since I last updated my blog. And, I wouldn't be me if there weren't a million things happening in the meantime. As always, I will start at the beginning by telling you the primary reason for not writing anything while I was still in Canada, although the majority of my friends already know because of my moaning: My computer died!!!

I spent the whole first weekend of december in Toronto, hanging out with the MC and having a great time and when I came back on monday morning, I switched it on and BANG: screen went black and after consulting the helpdesk at the university and a nice gentleman at the store I knew: this was it. I had anticipated something like this would happen at some point, but I was totally not ready for it. I spent two days being miserable and crying, but then I continued working on other people's computers, the university, etc. Anyways, my life kind of turned into "a shallow hole" like Danny called it, since I was in Guelph, everybody was having exams, it was freezing cold outside and I had to save the money I planned spending on trips to buy a new computer at some point. I was longing to go back to Germany, where there were my parents' laptops waiting for me and eventually they were going to buy me a new one...

But I still had some time left in Canada, I had my birthday, I saw Twilight for the first time (I will dedicate another blog entry to this at some point), packed up all my stuff, and spent the last days with the dear friends I had made there. Then the day of my return had come, with my suitcases packed, each weighing exactly 50 pounds, I went to Pearson Airport which was a mess so short before the holidays. Everything went smoothly, I had the Twilight book to help me through the night because unfortunately I wasn't really able to sleep. I had a stopover in Zurich, which was quite funny. I was dressed the way Northamericans dress when they travel, because it is most comfy: trackpants, sweater, scarf and had two huge heavy pieces of hand luggage. There was I, sitting between all the bankers and businesspeople on the Lufthansa morning flight to Dusseldorf. But oh well...it was worth it. I guess that also scared the customs people off to search my luggage for goods I should be declaring. Honestly, I don't think I had anything I should have declared, so I looked rather innocent.

And on the other side of the door my dear family was awaiting me!!! That was soooo nice!!! Of course instead of driving straight home we took a detour of the Ruhrgebiet because my Dad had things to do there and we had to drop off Andreas at his place in Dortmund. So when I was home I was exhausted and had only two hours to rest, because Wiebke and Wouter came at night. We went to the Christmas market, chatted and eventually they went to bed, because they were tired and I was jetlagged. I spent the whole Christmas vacation catching up with friends, partying and reading :) and eventually went to Russia for New Year's. It was really nice to be home and see that, even though I was gone for quite some time, things haven't really changed. Friends are still friends, family is still family and it is great to have them around!!!

I'll hopefully be able to tell you more about my trip to Russia, my Twilight obsession and my new exciting life shortly...