Progress

Yesterday marked my one month here in Germany.  The weeks have been rolling by so quickly that I can't even imagine the pace after I am fluent.  I can definitely recognize that I understand a lot more, but my responses are still not where I want them to be.  I have nine months to work on it, so I'm not that worried.

My goals for now:

• Overcome the language barrier
• Not being afraid to make stupid mistakes and to look foolish
• Make more friends
• Do more 
• Make lots of memories

So one day someone was joking around, saying that we need to live by YOLO for our year abroad, when I brilliantly created the new acronym: GOHO.  It is short for Germany Only Happens Once.  As annoying as those sayings are, we really need to take this to heart this year and make our experience in Germany the most we can make of it.

Countdown to my Holiday in the Sun (Spain):  7 DAYS

Yes, that was a reference to Mary-Kate and Ashley.  

Liebe,

Meredith