I'm really quite bad at updating my blog more frequently. I just forget about it until I read someone else's blog, and I think, "I should be a better blogger like them."
This is what happened just now, on the blog of someone who I don't really speak to in real life, but I follow them on the interweb. Such is my life of social encounters cushioned by the silence of the internet.
Perhaps an update is in order.
This summer has been quite eventful! I went to Tennessee, Michigan, New Jersey (the airport was quite big!), and now Germany. For three months, Nathan and I were separated due to my work in Tennessee and his research internship at the University of Michigan. Oh the sacrifices we make for the future. I can summarize the long distance in two words: it sucked. It was quite an interesting summer. I learned what it means to be a boss, what my managing style looks like, became really good friends with my sister Leah, put together two binders worth of paperwork for an ACA Accreditation visit, and drove a tractor for the first time. In the meantime, Nathan was being super academic researching methylase and taking a GRE prep course.
So we met up in Tennessee after those three awful months and flew to Germany. It was a long day of traveling. We got to Germany at 8 AM in the morning, exhausted from our travels, but unable to sleep if we wanted to adjust to the time here. After three days we finally got adjusted. We usually go to bed around 9:30 or 10, so basically I'm on my dream sleep schedule. I'm speaking a ton of German, and I'm getting used to it/getting better. I used to be extremely shy about speaking German and would even refuse to speak in my German classes. I'm getting over that out of pure necessity. The other students in my program are from Russia, Ukraine, Italy, Brazil, Taiwan, Japan, China, Kyrgyzstan, and so many other places. It's actually a really cool experience. Meanwhile, Nathan gets to be a "housewife." He cleans and shops for groceries and sometimes even cooks. It's so nice coming home with the bed made. He's learned some German, and he can now order food and gelato. Two very important things. We've visited so far one castle, the Schwarzwald, Freiburg, and explored alllll of Tübingen. Such a cute, quaint city.
So anyway. Here we are in Germany, and all we can talk about is how we miss our home in Provo. I'm excited for the semester to start.
