Im coooooooooooming!!!!!!!!!
26th December 2009
Guess what? ....YEP! Two more sleeps until I wake up, get on a plane (hopefully.. if weather permits), and arrive in Brazil 26 hours later. And im there for a whoooole 2 months and 1 week. It's crazy. And im crazy excited. Can't wait to see my Brazilians..... :)
The Weekend! Sunday 2nd August 2009
It really is quite strange to be home sometimes. Just on Friday we were at Tesco and so much had changed! Even the checkout lady was laughing with us that I didnt know what was going on. I knew that I had missed shopping in Scotland, but I didnt realise how much! I was going to ask a shop assistant for something and my first reaction was to think of what I wanted to and try to think of German words! Weird, hu! But I guess for one year (and lots of shopping trips), thats what I did. I've been having a really nice time though with all the little things I missed; hanging out with my family, relaxing all day in PJ's, carboot sales and playing wii with Andy. I decided to have the laziest weekend and let real life start tomorrow. Flat hunting, money making.. blah blah blah. Enjoying my final night of proper freedom tonight.. what should I do? Nothing? Ok... :)
30th June 2009 - Aachen to Edinburgh
Well, today I left Aachen. So strange, so sad, so exciting. All in one.
Mariana did warn me.. "debbie, are you sure you wanna fly from Weeze?" - I said, "heeey, its cheap, it'll be fine". Hmm, wise Mariana got it right again.
I got my train alright from Aachen to Krefeld. But there I had to get off and swap trains to take me from Krefeld to Weeze. The train at 7:07pm didnt show, so I waited another 30mins for the next one. It came, and I dragged my things on, finding a nice spot to chill for the remaining 45 minutes. Hm, everyone seemed to be getting out one stop after Krefeld, even those with big luggage cases who looked like they were going to Weeze too. So eventually an old man told me to get off because there was broken rail lines and we had to take a bus to skip 3 stations. Ok.. not so good when you have 35KG of baggage to lug around, but I managed it. I squeezed on the bus as the last person - all of us without an inch of space between us. So, 10 minutes into the journey, the bus just stops. We all look around and theres no train station, no cars.. actually, theres only grass. AWESOME... the bus that was taking us pass the broken rail lines, broke down!!!!! Is that possible? Well, looks like it, hu! I had to call Bassam to get some info, but used the last of my calling credit. Not a smart move. I was completely stuck and completely late. My watery eyes must have made an old man feel bad for me when he asked me where I was going etc. Eventually he found 2 others from Edinburgh who were returning home on the same flight. We ended up sharing a taxi together and getting to the airport juuust in time. Funny thing is, the flight was delayed 30 minutes. But check in had closed.. I had to get some nice help and have my bags specially checked in last minute. But it worked! And because it was so rushed, Ryanair didnt notice that it was 5KG overweight! Ta Da :)
I made it home 1.5hrs late with my mum, step-dad and bro all looking pretty exhausted and not too happy. No wonder.. 1.5hrs in the airport waiting.. sucks. But i'd rather have been them than me tonight. The bloooody stress of thinking I might miss the flight almost had me having a mini heartattack. and lots of potential tears!!!!! I had some people who really, really helped me tonight.. and I didnt have to pay excess baggage costs. But was it worth it? Doooooont think so.
Now I'm home.. had some toast and tea. And soon to bed. Quite a long day so far.. and tomorrow starts the next chapter. What now????? :)
30th June 2009
Baaaaaaaccccccccckkkk
I was gone for 11months - in Aachen having the best time ever. But I think its time once again to get blogging. And I have a nice lil story to warm things up....
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