Just for people who don't know, moving across an ocean is quite difficult. The whole distance thing you can get over, I mean that is what college is for. The biggest adjustment is to try and find something to do. Back home, no matter really where you live, there was a few things that you could do almost anywhere, go to a movie, go out to a restaurant with some friends, maybe go to a bar, golf, you get the idea. Here you have to not only find new things to do, you have to dig really hard to find stuff that you can do in the U.S. too. Sure the bars are easy enough to find, but movie theater, talk about a 30 minute adventure for me and Whit, a restaurant, easy enough but find one that is affordable, golf, have to have a handicap card, plus take and pay for a test to make sure you are GOOD ENOUGH to even step foot on the course. So I guess the first step is to just start off slow, and do something I always do, take Miki on a walk.
A walk may not seem like much, but it certainly did help. It also helps when you get to walk in a countryside that is straight out of a movie. In the small town Blickinsdorf there is a hill with a few walking paths strewn about. I needed to take Miki out more and that is definitely a good exercise for both. But it should make living here that much easier. Before it was a bit depressing because I would only get out to pick up Whitney and go to the grocery store, not the kind of life I'm used to. So with some help from Whit I was able to get out during the afternoon and do something as simple as walking, and it felt great.
Now I just need to continue this trend of getting out more everyday. So that I have to schedule time to fit Miki's walk in, and not the other way around. It may take some time but this first part will definitely be the hardest.
I also plan on taking the camera up with me the next couple days to grab some pics so everyone can see what this hill is all about. It will definitely turn into a place where I take people when they come to visit.
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