I can officially check one thing off my list of goals for this here blog (woo!) but I still have two big things to accomplish in eight months' time. Let me talk about those for a moment...
My German is definitely improving. I've spent a lot of time working with Rosetta Stone and have stopped writing one of my friends in English at all. Only German emails for this girl! It's been trying, but it's made me better and I'm really excited about it. In fact, while Skyping with said friend yesterday, he told me that he thought my German was probably better than some Austrians were capable of writing. He also told me that he knows people who've lived in Austria for three or five years whose German isn't as good as mine. I'll happily take those compliments. I know I have a long way to go and there are a lot of things I need to work on (like keeping noun genders straight), but it seems that I understand the grammar and word order and whatnot quite well and a lot of it now is just building vocabulary and working with different tenses.
As far as the weight-loss arena, things are nicht so gut. It's been easy to claim stress and moving and a million other things and just not work out. However, since I'm currently job hunting now that I'm officially in Nebraska I just don't have much going on. As such, I've decided to take advantage of every free day/3 days/week/etc. pass that I can find at any gym in Omaha that will have me. My dad offered to get me a free one-week pass to his gym and I plan on going tonight and starting the couch to 5k running plan. I'm definitely going to do some strength training as well. I've never been a runner, but I think I could like it. I just need to start doing it. I was hoping to go running outside today but it was cold as balls, so thanks but no thanks. Ultimately, after test-driving every gym I can, I plan for Matthew and myself to join one. Since his spiffy new employer pays for half of the cost of his gym fees, it'll be a reduced cost for us and a good investment to be sure.
On that note, I'm going to go get ready to head to the gym. Just have to wait for my dad to get me the pass before I can go. Hopefully it won't be another month before I get a decent post written! :)
Tschüss!
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