Learning to Fly

It`s done.
This is my first post I write in my new home.
I arrived on sunday evening and yesterday was the first day all 4 of us were here.
Our flat isn`t ready yet. A lot has to be done, like our kitchen isn`t ready at all^^ .
But thankfully I still have a week till Uni starts.

At the Moment I feel like there´s so much to do and organisate but I`m motivated :)
It`s so refreshing to walk through the City and not knowing someone or some Shops!
And here in Göttingen, where I´m going to spend the next 3 years, if my choice of uniprogramme is good ;), everything is so cute and historical! I have a good Feeling :D

Now I can choose WHAT, WHEN, HOW!
It feels like I`m free. Not that I felt like I sat in a Cage at home, but it`s something completely different to life on your own or in a commune.
I flee the nest.
I´m the Little bird, who learns how to fly and maybe I´m on an altidute flight right now and will land on my nose, but right now it doesn`t matter!
Right now all that Counts is, that it feels good, that I feel good!
And that`s a start!


~ I feel the tears coming in. Maybe it`s harder than I thought. I don´t want to cry. Slowly I drive off. Around the Corner and the tears are coming. I`m leaving. Home.~

A new beginning

Ist`s been a while.....

And I`m about to make a big step towards my future.
I`m moving.
Away.
Into a new City! It was my biggest wish in the beginning of the year, just to finally move out of my old home, the City I grew up in, into a new surrounding. Starting a new life there.
My very own life.
Away from my Family and old friends. Now I`m about to do that big step. And I feel anxious.
Its so weird. Suddenly you get Aware of all the things, all the privileges you have whilst living with your Family and maybe you realize how, actually, hard it is to run your own household. (I haven`t moved yet, but I spent a lot of time alone at home the past couple months^^)

~How much Food do I Need on a weekly basis? What cleaning material is the best? Which paperwork has to be done? Do I really Need to take this shelf with me?~

Also it made me realize, that I`m going to miss more things, than I actually thought I would.
I`m so torn by my Feelings. I Had a couple of days where I felt unsure about all my decision I`ve made this year.
But I try to be positive. I had a pretty bad year so far. Now It only CAN GET BETTER! :)

Another fact, I`ll share my flat with 3 other People. All from different places and all new to the City :)
I`ve met them very briefly and I´m excited. They`re all really nice and I think I`ll get alone with them. But also, of course, I`m hunted by the thought, that maybe we`d hate each other and the plan of a shared flat won´t work out!

I`m writing this post sitting between cardboard boxes. I`m not done packing yet. In fact I just started and I`m a Little overwhelmed.
I own A LOT things and I already see, that I have to leave some stuff behind.

Hamburg Familyholiday

woaaah! so much time has passed and I was lazy :D

I think its way over a month since I last posted something, but there wasn`t anything Special going on!
My life contains mostly now of working and chillin at home. More chillin though^^ Oh ja I got a Job now I haven´t talked about yet. Its basically waitresswork, but at different Events and Hotels. Its pretty nice and I can choose when and where I wanna work + I get good Money!

Another Thing which has changed for quite a few time now but I didn´t talk about it is, that we got a new dog! I have mentioned it before( way back at my Christmas post), that our dog had cancer and he actually died in the end of january, which is almost 5 months back now. But we were all really sad and I didn´t feel like writing about it, as I`m a Person who doesn`t talk much about their Feelings. And for a Long time it wasn`t sure if we get a new one. But after 4 month without a dog we all were sure, we NEED a dog :D So we went on a hunt for a new familymemeber, which was quite difficult as we had some requirements. Like getting along with cats, being alone and most important I wanted a dog I`m not allergic to. Also we were searching for the smaller Versions xD
But finally we stumbled across a profile on the Tiere in Not Odenwald side. At first we had to laugh, cause this tiny Girl looked really uncertain into the camera and had ears like Dobby from the Harry Potter movies :) We decided to meet in Person and for me it only took a second to decide, that this is gonna be our new companion!Also I`m not allergic to her. And she`s just adorable :) the only Thing is, she`s really really anxious of men, which makes it hard for my brother but we`re trying hard and its getting better.

So here is Maali. We thought Long about a Name, cause we didn´t like her old name Tonina. My mom asked me then what "march" means in finnish. Maaliskuu.And we think Maali is perfect, cause we got her in march :)

She has the perfect size though, cause we didn´t want to get a big dog

Long talk^^ Now What I actually wanted to talk about is our familytrip to Hamburg the week after eastern. I have an aunt, uncle and 2 cousines, who live in Hamburg and my youngest cousine celebrated her confirmation on this Weekend. Also my grandpa had the honour to celebrate his 90th birthday. He and my grandma stayed in St. Peter- Ording at the North sea. Me,my mom, my aunt and my other cousine rented an appartment via airbnb ( I`m starting to really like this page :D)
All in all we were 5 days in Hamburg including one daytrip to St. Peter-Ording! And I had so much fun. I really looked forward to this trip, cause I just love spending time with my Family! Its always great and we`re all just so crazy :D We had so much LoLs. I talso ment, that we got out of our everyday Routine, which was really refreshing. I haven`t been out since the Paris trip in january.
It was the 2nd time in Hamburg for me so most of the sights I`ve already seen. But we weren`t bored. Next to the confiramtion sunday and a lot familydinners we went to Hagenbecks zoo, bootcruise on the Alster, Miniature wonderland, which is basically countries, which are rebuilded into a miniature railway world and of course Shopping :D

My cousine and me @ the beach



Elephants @ Hagenbecks Tierpark

Alpacas!!! you could feed them and the elephants

Me, my aunt and mom @ dinner

Confisunday. Me, grandpa, aunt, mom, grandma and cousine`s grandma

Blazer: H&M
Blouse: Monki
Shoes: old :D

Soon all my friends have Holiday or coming back from their year abroad and I`m not so alone anymore. The past month I really felt a Little alone even I have work. But usually I work on 2 days a week. Also I`m planing more travel related stuff :D Since I´m going to Uni in late September I have the whole summer. And Its the last summer where I`m Kind of "free". So look Forward to that^^

XoXo.

Änni

For those who have heart

On the 4.02. I went to my first A Day to Remember Concert.
The first time I saw my all time favorite band live and....once again, they suprised me!

It`s a never ending Lovestory!
Sometimes I have the Feeling they exactly know, what I`m thinking. Like they hid eavesdropping bugs in my brain.

I got the tickets as a birthday present from my mom and one ticket I gave to my brother as a gift :) 

As we stood in line , I totally felt 16 again.   All the band- shirt -wearing kids, drinking, having fun and no worries about their future ....just reminded me of how fast time flies by. 

A couple of years ago I was like them too. 

Now I stood there kind of tired from working 8 hours that day, no alcohol cause I was driving and no band- shirt.

But that didn't hold me back from having a great time! 

A day to remember are just such a great band and they proved to me that they're not only sounding good on tape but also live .
just for those who have heart

 

 

Je t'aime, Paris !

I`m back from a short weekendtrip to Paris.
I`ve never really had France on my Screen. They`re our neighbours and of course the City of Love, Paris and thats all what came in my mind when thinking about this Country. Maybe ist because I`ve learned Latin and not French in School so I don´t really have a Connection with it :D
But since one of my friends makes an Au pair year there I thought, why not visit her^^
On Friday I packed my 7 things, Valerie and Thomas and my not excisting French skills in my car and we were off to Paris!

We booked a small appartment ( 1 room, no table :D) via airbnb in the district la Republique.
We arrived around 3 p.m. after we searched a parkinglot for about 15 minutes^^ and we still had to walk 20 minutes to our accomondation. And we had to pay every 2 hours for it-.- Our first Paris experience :D But we were lucky and during the Weekend the parking was free.

Since we only had about 2 days we just saw the oh so touristic attractions like shit, we were the 0815 Tourists, I never wanted to be :)
But I think we saw every sight, you should see, when visiting Paris!
like Notre Dame, Louvre, Montmartre, centre Pompidou, Triumphal arch and the Eiffel Tower!
And we, of course, met up with our friend Svea :)

As this post has a really touristic Flair, I thought, I write some Random Facts about our personal experiences :

Random Facts :

• We all, Valerie, Thomas and me had the privilege to have some birdpoo on us. Seriously I`ve never got pooped on and then in Paris we all got shit on within one day :D  f****** birds!
• I drunk my first Cocktail of the year ...OUTSIDE... In January... in Paris !
• While Walking across the Love Bridge ( I don´t know how it`s called but the Bridge, where Lovers put on locks, to Show that they love each other forever^^) a guy came to us and wanted to braid a bracelet for me. When I said, that I don´t Need it, he tried to explain to me, this Bracelet is good for BUNGA BUNGA :D He then considered Thomas is my boyfriend and that we`ll have great Bunga Bunga in the evening ^^ (Which he`s not but the things People do to sell their stuff...) We had a good laugh :)
• The prejudice, that the French don´t speak English, has turned out to be half true. One guy in a Tourist Information could not speak a single word English! Like seriously, why do they hire not-english-speaking people for a Tourist Information!?!?! But usually we met nice People, who could help us and spoke understandible English. 
• Almost all Museums are free for Europeans under 25 years. But I was kinda disappointed by the Mona Lisa. Waaaay too many Asians in front of it and I imagined the painting a Little bit bigger. 
• Driving in Paris as a foreigner resembles to suicide
• Paris is truely the City of Love! I`ve never felt so romanticc than there.

On sunday we left Paris around 5 p.m., which was maybe a Little too late^^ We drove the whole time in the dark and were really exhausted when we arrived around 1 in the night!
But all in all I really like this City and two days are definetely too less time to really see everything.
There are so many nice places to see and Shops to discover, I`ll definetely come back!

Tourist Picture No.1

Tourist Picture No. 2

Toursit Picture No. 3

and 4 :D

Toursit Picture No. 5

Tourist Picture No. 6

XoXo, Änni

Here and gone again

A New Year. New changes. New beginnings.

Thats my Motto for 2014!
Now I`m almost 3 weeks back in Germany and I already escaped last week ;)
Ok, ist not that bad here, I´m actually doing quite well, better than I thought I`ll do, but ...I don´t have anything to do! And its killing me.....
Waking up in the morning and realizing , that you have no plans for the day is horrible! I never had such a hard time getting up. People told me to enjoy this, cause soon I`ll work my whole life Long, but to not have a reason to get up literally kills my day!
So the opportunity to go on skiing vacations with my aunt and cousine came right in time^^ Also I wanted to go skiing again this year.
I had a really nice time with them. It was a women vacation xD A couple of years ago we were in the same Hotel, so we knew the skiingarea there and that the Hotel has a nice Spa and GOOD Food :D 4 course in the evening :O
Also it was good for my Jetlag^^ After two weeks I still couldn`t sleep before two and the fact that we got up at 8.oo o`clock every morning really helped! ( Well now I`m back in my old Routine -.-)

We went skiing everyday and the weather played along. Except the last day was foggy! Also it was really warm. I believe only in the night under 0° C. #notlikecanada :D
Also I`m now Champion in packing my luggage^^ Ì`ve never travelled with so less things than on this trip. Ok it was only 5 days but for that I had only the main things I really Needed with me. And today I have to pack again :) Cause tomorrow I`ll drive to PARIS with Valerie and our friend Thomas to visit one of our friends, who is an Au pair there atm.
Only for  the Weekend but I`ve never been to Paris and I have something to do then^^

Also I just came back from an organic farm here in Darmtadt. And I`m starting an intership there in the beginning of february! I`m really looking Forward to it. Its big and has every farmingaspect we experienced in Canada on the farms in one :D
So I still have 2 weeks to do whatever I want to do....but I think I`ll mainly hang around in the internet^^

Here are some pics of my vacavacation xD

oh and we were in Austria ^^

my cousine and me

Canada feelings^^

One of the deserts