Getting it all together

It has begun.

Two weeks from today I will be leaving Stuttgart. Two weeks from right now I will probably be sitting in the Charles de Gaulle airport waiting for my next flight.

So, I've started packing. It's most efficient way of cleaning my room I can think of at the moment. I have accumulated so much... junk... over the last 11 months, it's almost unbelievable. So I'm trying to pack the clothes I want to keep that I won't be wearing in the next two weeks, packing up notebooks from courses that I've finished with for the semester, that sort of thing.

I'm hoping this gradual approach will mean that I can have stuff done in plenty of time to move out on the 27th. I'll probably be staying with Dory that night -- it's close enough to the airport from her house.

I'm not emotionally ready to leave yet. Which I guess is okay, except that I'm not sure I'll be ready to go when the time does come.

It has been a wonderful year. I have made some great friends, and I am still meeting new people, and wanting to get to know them as well. I could honestly come back here for a longer stay next time. I sincerely want there to be a next time.

That's definitely an item for the "pray about it and we'll see" list.

I am never going to Amsterdam

I think someone smoked pot in the laundry room. I went down there to get the clothes that had been hanging there to dry (for a week now, almost) and it REEKED. I got sick to my stomach, and I almost never get sick to my stomach.

I cannot WAIT until I have my own apartment again. Oy.

Vacation time!

My last class was today! Whoo hooo!

I now am the proud holder of 3 Scheine, with two more to earn and one to be picked up next week. My last test (and the only one remaining) will be on Thursday July 21, 9:45 a.m.

In other news, I move out of my room officially (they come to check it) on Wednesday, July 27 at 3 p.m. They'll come by to check the condition of furniture, etc, on the 21st at 1 p.m.

Things are moving... and so am I, in two weeks. Thank goodness for Dory, and being able to stay at her house! I might even take some of my things over there early, if she doesn't mind...