Would You Like Some Tomato Soup With Those Onions ?

Today I had to get up and help make homemade tomato soup for a party the family is throwing tomorrow. I actually found it to be very fun and really easy. It was so easy I already have it memorized and so when I go home the one thing I am making everyone is homemade tomato soup. I will have gone from only being able to make cereal to making homemade tomato soup .... I mean that is impressive. Since we have to make the soup for about 60 people there was a lot of tomato's obviously and there was a lot of onions. When it comes to onions and cutting them well I am just going to be honest ... I am horrible. I really didn't think I was that horrible until Ivetta gave me a step by step printed out sheet on how to cut onions. In my mind I was like okay so it has just be clarified that I really do suck at cutting onions and it's not just in my head. Ivetta said by the end of my year here I will be a professional onion cutter which means I am really not going to go far in life. I found the soup to be pretty tasty and so let's just hope everyone else enjoys it and most importantly they all enjoy the large quantity of onions.


XO

Three Months!

I can't believe I have been away from home three months. Time is just flying by. In these last three months I have travelled, gone out of my comfort zone more than a dozen times and I am so proud of myself. I have days that are better than others but I try and take the bad days a learn from them. So far I have learned that if I want to do something I just have to do it and not think about it. This is my time to experience everything  and grow as much as I can. The thing I am most proud of is going out of my comfort zone because I am a shy person and for me putting myself in a group of people I don't know trying to make friends really scared me but I knew that I had to suck it up and so I did. I have met some really great people that make my time here in Colonge a lot of fun. If I hadn't gone out of my comfort zone I never would have experienced what I have experienced so far.
From when I first got here to now my German has improved tremendously. I do some German everyday and I can understand a little. I have days where I find German harder than math and I just want to give up but then I realize how much I have improved and how much more I am going to improve.  I have come to realize that if everything in life was easy then I would never grow or be able to challenge myself and thats what this whole experience is about. I can't wait for what the next nine months to come especially July!!


xo


P.s I wish my sweet mother a safe flight tomorrow. Enjoy your time and most important have fun and also remember I love you a lot

Thessaloniki!!

The past five days were spent in a city in Greece called Thessaloniki. I am not sure why I have this image in my head but ever since I saw the movie Sisterhood Of The Travelling Pants I thought where we were going was going to look exactly like that and we would get taken to the house we were staying at by camels. As you can guess I got let down and it was nothing like the movie in fact I didn't even see a camel. I went with three girls one of which was from Greece so we got to meet some of her friends and family. It wasn't my favourite city I have visited but it was neat to experience a city and way of life through another person's eyes. I have never gone on a trip with people I hardly new and I was proud of myself for going and experiencing something outside my comfort zone. I have made new friends out of this experience and got to eat some really really really great food. I find each time I challenge myself to take on new experiences I always learn something new about myself just like Megan did this weekend. 

"Use incredible thoughts to manifest an incredible life. Your life will follow your thoughts. If you think it, and believe it, then you will see it"

xo

A Weekend In Paris!

This past weekend I got to join the family in Paris. They were invited to a friends 40th birthday party on the Saturday so they decided to make a whole weekend out of it. We left Friday at 3:30 and arrive in Paris at 8:30 pm. We didn't have to be at the party until later in the afternoon on Saturday so we got into the city centre for breakfast at 9:20 am and then we had the rest of the day to walk around and enjoy the beautiful city . I found Paris to be amazing. I had never been to a city that was so elegant. There wasn't one particular thing I loved most about Paris because I loved everything.  If you have never been to Paris, I suggest you save up and make a trip.

I can now scratch off #15 on my bucket list - See the Eiffel Tower!

xo

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Schnitzel Gone Wrong

I had to spend the entire night with the boys because Ivetta and Joachim were out and weren't returning until the next morning. My first task of the night was to make Schnitzel which looked easy except when it comes to me and cooking I make the simple things the most difficult. When I looked in the fridge I grabbed the only package in the fridge that looked like meat and started preparing it well first off it smelt like fish and was a lot bigger than what i've seen. It was a lot more difficult to prepare than Ivetta said. Typical me I just keep making it. When the boys come and sit down for dinner they tell me it looks good until they eat it and say " this is fish". They ended up not eating it and just had french fries for dinner . My first Schnitzel experience didn't go well but hey I just have to look on the bright side .... it's a mistake I will not make again!

The boys tend to get up pretty early but they didn't get up tell about 9 this morning and I was woken up by them both cleaning and vacuuming their rooms .... just like I asked them to do the night before. It is amazing how kids do things just so they can watch the television. I think it's safe to say my first entire night with the boys was a success minus the dinner part. 

xo 

Water Fight ....

This week I am having to spend more time alone with the boys which I am really looking forward to because it means I will get more bonding time . Today after my German class I had to watch Yannic, Dominic and one of Yannick's friends Leo. When Leo is over they always want me to play hide n seek
 so that is what we did and since it was nice out the boys wanted to play outside which was fun for five min but got boring really fast because they always pick a hiding spot and keep hiding in that spot for the next five games and when I keep finding them they start getting board and want to do something else. Since I am trying to get in the good books with the boys I am up for anything and today that meant getting absolutely soaked in a spontaneous water fight that I may or may not have started. After the three boys teamed up on me and got me soaked I thought that meant game over but no that was just the beginning we had a water fight for about forty-five minutes and even though it was me against three boys I think I did pretty good. The one rule was that the water had to be warm water not cold and getting warm water poured on you when you're cold is like a nice hot shower.....by the end of it Dominic was asking me to pour water on him because it felt nice. At one point I was even pouring water over my head because it made me feel like I was in hot tub. I think it's safe to say the water fight ended in a tie and for the first time since I've been here I think the boys thought I was the coolest au pair ever !!!


xo 

Because I said so

Last night I was home alone with the boys and had to put them to bed. Before Dominic went upstairs to get ready for bed he asked me if he could have something to drink and I told him he could have a glass of water. He didn't understand that I said water because he went and got apple juice. I told him to put it away and get water . Ivetta told me that she doesn't want the boys to have apple juice before they go to bed because well she said so . Dominic didn't like that I told him to get water so he began having this huge freak out. He burst into tears and started doing these tai chi moves on me, apart of me wanted to give in but I couldn't do that because it would mean a seven year old won in an argument and I couldn't have that. 
I am into my second week of German and it is still very hard. I can understand some reading but when it comes to talking I haven't gotta clue. I have found coming home and having four German speaking people in the house helps a lot and everyday I get a little bit better. 


Guten Tag! 


xo 


German word of the day : Liebe ( love)