So today marks the first day of my last week of classes here in Bonn. All my tests were finished last week, so I'm really just doing everything to prepare to leave. I'm having to deal with things pertaining to the new townhome in Columbia, as well as checking out and other paperwork to do with leaving Germany. I also need to super-clean my room, but who knows when that will happen. There may be traveling this weekend, or I may just stay around here and get everything sorted out.
Other than my two finals last week, the only other exciting thing I really have to talk about is my run to Cologne. Yes, I ran 30-plus kilometers (well, not all of it). Mary had talked about running to Cologne after one day when she ran to my place and then went for a run with me. I played along with the suggestion because I thought she was joking. She wasn't joking, and I didn't figure this out until Saturday afternoon. We went for this run on Sunday morning. I thought I was going to pass out or something. We didn't run all the way into the center of Cologne, but we ran to a suburb-thing of Cologne called Köln-Godorf. The total trip was about 4-ish hours, and I ran 2 and a half of those hours. We took a train home, obviously. And I did this whole run without any prior distance training. Up until last Sunday, the longest I'd run was about 5 kilometers. Needless to say, it was pretty much impossible for me to walk down any stairs the next day.
Oh, and if I haven't already mentioned this, Germany has American Football teams. They're not super great. They play at a talent level of about a high school team in America. I've been to two games since I've been here, and they were kind of terrible to watch. When Mary and I went on Saturday, we made a wrong turn leaving the train station and wandered around Bonn-Mehlem for maybe half an hour before actually finding where we were supposed to go. But it ended up being okay because the opposing team's bus broke down and they didn't even start the game until about half an hour after they were supposed to start. So we didn't actually miss anything.
I think the whole leaving thing is really starting to sink in now, because one of my friends left on Thursday. Now that people are starting to actually fly home, I'm actually realizing that I won't be able to stay here forever with all these amazing friends I've made. After being pretty resistant to the whole leaving-home-for-six-months-and-not-knowing-anyone thing, I really have enjoyed my time here. I don't know what I'm going to do without being able to see all these great people every day. I guess that will give me an excuse to come back to Europe in the near future. And my German has improved so much! I'm not fluent, but it definitely comes more naturally to me than it used to. America is going to seem kind of boring, but I will have so much to do that I won't have time to be bored.
Well, that's all for now, I guess.
Maddie
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