One Month Milestone Broken!

Over the weekend my 31st day in Germany passed, and thus I have been in another country for more than a month.  My previous record was the 29 days that I spent in Costa Rica two summers ago.  Let's see...we can talk a bit about what I've been doing this week, although it's really nothing too crazy.

Welcome Packages


As I told everyone last week, I have been tasked with creating the welcome package for the Summer Academy.  By Friday I had a rough draft of the little booklet.  However, there is still a lot of information left to put in it, and the problem is that a lot of the information I need is in German.  I was supposed to have a lot more time this week to do it, but my boss then asked me to do like 5 other things and by the time I knew it I had run out of time.  What a crazy week this was...more info on these welcome packages as they get prepared and sent out.

The unintentional BHAG...


I am not sure if all of you have heard about this term.  A BHAG is used in goal setting as something that you should strive to achieve, but is many times unachievable.  It stands for big, hairy, audacious goal.  Well...my head was big, hairy and definitely audacious, though it was not really a goal of mine to get it to this level.

I look like a combination of Wolverine an Jack Nicholson...not pretty.

Now...I have actually been looking for somewhere to get a haircut, but paying 20 EUR to get my hair cut was not really something I wanted to do.  Therefore, I stalled...and stalled...and stalled...until my hair was looking like this.  I have reached the tipping point...can't do this anymore.  I was getting annoyed over how long it was, so I asked my buddy yesterday if he could take me to one place he knew where it was like 11 EUR.

My head looks bigger, haha.

Ok, so it ended up being 12 EUR, but I can no longer feel hair in my forehead.  That was more than 2 months, and by far the longest time I had gone without a haircut.  And that is the story of how I ended up getting a haircut after 2 months.

Erryting else


Besides working and hanging out with the people here, I have been watching a ver large amount of movies.  God bless Internet streaming, because I am yet to miss a recent movie that I wanted to watch.  Thor, Fast Five, Hangover 2 and many more...seen them all.  And then there's all new South Park, and Colbert/The Daily Show to give me my weekly dose of America.  These last two I usually watch all together at the end of the week.  It's a funny couple of hours every week.

Simply cannot believe I have been here for one month already, and now I'm simply looking forward to getting this Summer Academy ready to go.  Lots of paperwork to make sure these international students can come to Germany.  These Germans have as much paperwork or more than Americans, and about twice the amount of government bureaucracy.  This week should be pretty awesome as well because I SHOULD get paid, unless someone messed up my paperwork, which would really suck...but hopefully all goes well.  For now I'll keep working hard and actually having a good sleep pattern for once.

Parting words:

-Go Bruins!  Congrats on getting to the Stanley Cup Finals!  Beat the Canucks!
-Please, dear God...the Mavs better beat the Heat because I hate Lebron James.
-Germany beat Uruguay in an international friendly today.  Woo, Deutschland!
-Hangover 2 is good but not as good as the first one, and a little bit too out there for my taste.