The Paper Crane

Friends its Sat­ur­day night. Vis­ited with a friend that I haven’t seen in a year. She needed to make an early night of it. So here I am dis­solv­ing Braun­hirse Mehl in milch and keep­ing an eye on the brightly lit trees edg­ing the apart­ment house where a film crew is well, filming.

Thanks­giv­ing is this com­ing week. I wor­ried that I might miss my favorite hol­i­day and now have man­aged two din­ners! one on the actual day and the other on Sat­ur­day. very excit­ing.
The for­mer will even have green bean casse­role, a favorite. Happy that she didn’t find Cheez Whiz which would have meant hav­ing broc­coli casse­role instead. Cheez Whiz. Com­pletely for­got about that one. Microwave nachos.

So I will miss see­ing my fam­ily though. Hope­fully a Skype call with web­cam can take place. Skype is really, really a great thing to help with the long dis­tance. My mom who is not the most tech savvy (putting it mildly here) has some­how man­aged to mas­ter Skype. I can see the moti­va­tion. Her and I fre­quently Skype. and my brother of course. But some fam­ily and friends just aren’t turned on to it. And they sim­ply want to wait until I am vis­it­ing or they are just busy. Both I totally get. There is also Face­book. But i find I need to detach from that from time to time and actu­ally see more peo­ple in real life that Live here. It has taken nearly a year but I have a good group of friends form­ing. As is usu­ally the case, the close ones are a very small num­ber. But what does feel dif­fer­ent is that there is more ‘infor­ma­tion shar­ing’ for lack of a bet­ter way to say it. More look­ing out for each other because we are all in the same sit­u­a­tion of try­ing to find our way. I feel like I was also doing that in Chicago — because art is tricky to fig­ure out as a liv­ing don’t need to tell you all that — but the for­eign coun­try ele­ment is a bit…tricky too.

That is my ram­bling for tonight…

Also, I hope to get some mes­sages from you on ques­tions you have about liv­ing here…email me at nesbitsarah@hotmail.com.  And let me know what you are want­ing to know…and I may have an answer.  I hope to get some ideas for future posts.…evidently love using trail offs.…

vG (Viele Grüße),

Sarah

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