The last couple of weeks have been a bit mixed really. I've felt a bit down since Joy left, and have been really stressed about the whole tooth thing but things are coming together! On Monday, I had my teeth prepared for the bridge, which was sore for a while afterwards and I'm feeling quite hideous with the temporary plastic bridge in, but on Monday I will finally have a full ceramic bridge! If you want an idea of how hideous my teeth have become for this bridge, just google 'teeth prepared for crowns' (or something) and you'll get the idea...
Last week, Sophie, Hilary, Gayle and I went for a spa evening which was lovely. I spent most of it outside reading, but we all had prosecco in the bubbly pool thing and felt very posh. Germans have no issue with nakedness, so we saw some sights but didn't join in. I love Germany, but I'm not sure I'm ready to embrace their complete nonchalance about nudity.
My brother is in Berlin at the moment, for the launch of their new store in Berlin and for the Bread and Butter fashion exhibition at Tempelhof. I've seen him a couple of times briefly, and was meant to see him at a party last night but just could not get hold of him. So I ended up staying at home and watching the Germany-Brazil game, which was insane! You could hear shouts everywhere and fireworks went off right outside our window. I am 100% watching the final at a public viewing. Even if they don't win (but they are machines), the atmosphere will be amazing and I can't believe Germany has got to the final while I'm here!
In other news, I've not seen Lionel for a couple of weeks as he was on holiday, then Joy was here and then we couldn't sort out a time last week. Now my language classes are over (I know, it went so quickly), we should be able to meet on Tuesdays again. If not, we'll add him to the missing tandem partners list.
I wish I could sign up for another 4 weeks of classes, but I don't have the time left now. I'm still going to work through the textbook though because a) I'm keen and b) it cost me 14 euros.
Work has been going well and I've been doing a lot of SEO translation and copy-editing, which has been interesting and something different! I'm quite sick of the word 'keyword' for the moment though. I've done some more translations and it's been a consistently positive response from my boss. He read one last week and said the quality was brilliant. I was incredibly smug with myself for the rest of the day.
I'm also sorting out my travels for August, which has been a bit stressful but mostly plain sailing. I think I mentioned it in a previous blog post but didn't explain so here are the details! I'm heading to Alicante to stay with my aunt for a week, before I get a bus to Avignon and spend 2 nights there. Then it's on to Grenoble for 3 nights and I may take a daytrip to Lyon. From there, I'm taking a train to Geneva for the night, and I'll try and squeeze as much in as I can before I fly to Split in Croatia to meet Sia! We're staying in Split for the night, then we're going to Zagreb to spend time in the beautiful national parks. We'll get a bus back to Vienna and two days later, I'll be back in Berlin for one final night before my flight to England the next morning.
It's going to be quite a month! I had to ring Eurolines about my ticket (they didn't send me one) and forced myself to speak French. Now I have all my tickets and reservations booked. I just need to print them...
I ordered a rucksack from Amazon but it doesn't seem big enough which is a shame, but the rest of the holiday buying is going okay so I'm getting quite excited. Obviously, I am sad about leaving Berlin, but I just wanted to see more and I'm sure I won't regret it!
Berlin has been muggy and stormy the last couple of days. So much so, that it was almost pitch dark in my room at the office yesterday, save for my lamp. The rain was incredible and I thought the windows were going to smash at any given moment. The whole place smells like a rainforest.
Apparently I have run out of things to say, because I'm now talking about the weather....
Bis bald! xxx
p.s. I'm sorry for the zero pictures!!
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