Home Away From Home

This weekend was Oktober Fest weekend. Unbelievable that I that do not even like beer, get to go to a party where the only point is to drink and enjoy liters of beer... But the girls said it was our first reunion so I took it as a given that I had to go :-) and made an effort to replace 1 liter beers with half liter mugs of wine and all worked out. The funny part is we start in the morning... At 11.15 we were at the door of a tent which name i can hardly spell and even less pronounce no matter how much german i learn. And if you think that once you are in you take it easy you are mistaken, you stsrt immediatelly with tbe mass of beer and many people will already be having their schweinhaxe (pork's knee, perhaps not spellt the right way). You "only" have until 4.35 pm so you better start going fast. And then you just chat drink and have fun. And you let the surroundings deepen in you, as people from all ages dressed in bavarian customes will loudly sing "ai prosti...

Friday night and i am definitely out of the office. I was told i was meant to have a cool weekend and i realize at 7 pm that i have no plans. In a way i dont feel like any plans but on another i know i will regret not making the most of my free time. So i decide to follow instructions and get myself some plans. It is hard between old friends that i am not used to see on friday night and the harvard people that are still adjusting back. And the portuguese never let me down and i guess we like to all be lazy together!! It will definitely a cool night!!

After an initial schock moment of not being able to cope with all i wanted to do i finally seem to have progressed out of it. Working my org skills to the max I managed to get a lot out of my plate and all seems to be running smoothly. Even though B is out of town this week, leaving behind quite of an empty space, in fact i know there is a lot i can do with my time. I think the fact that i have a new c. 1 kg netbook definitely helps, and i am still to discover all its features. 3 months without a computer I guess had not happened since the late 90s for me and has revealed itself a transformational experience. I transformed into moody laptop deprived Sara and tried to use someone else's laptop whenever intense iphone use was not enough! I am sure it was quite entertaining to watch my despair from the outside and, the more i felt deprived of it the more uncertain I was about which new laptop i should take. That is why it took 3 months! Life is back to normal now and i think back to ...