leaving germany!

HELLOOOO!

leaving Nelson today to go to Able TAsman with StrayBus. VERY Excited! I think this park will be one, of many, highlights of my trip. crossing my fingers we have good weather---it is supposed to be all sunshine. YAHOO!

a very sweet, nice, japanese girl moved into my room yesterday. i felt so bad for her. she said she was really lonely and missed her family---she came here to learn english and travel...she is just 21. I could just tell how difficult it has been for her here, with the language barrier. she is trying though. her english isn't that good---she has to think a lot before she says anything. so of course i was trying to help her---laugh now mother, i know you think my english is AWFUL. i know it is, but i can help someone who sucks even more than I do....so anyways, i helped her understand what the following words are " offended," "suspect," "recommend," and "god bless" that was difficult because she kept asking me and i didn't understand what the hell she was saying. till FINALLY she said her brother sent her an e-mail in japanese (by this time in our deep, glowing friendship I was on her bed with her looking at all of her japanesey computer stuff and her japanese computer dictionary she brought) but yea, so her brother wrote her in Japanese but at the end, said "god breath" and she didn't understand---CLEARLY. he is trying to learn some english too. I ended up giving her this dirty grey wife beater I had---i have worn it to bed like 4 weeks in a row. i felt bad giving her a dirty tank top, but she LOVED IT. and I gave her my bridget jones diary book because i jsut finished it. that will take her YEARS, if not decades to read.

toying with the thought of staying here for the full year, or atleast through the ski season. just a thought. i really don't want to deal with getting a job and having a "normal" life back home. i just looooove traveling. i haven't gotten sick of it yet at all, or my backpack, which I was worried about. but it turns out I packed less than anyone in new zealand. i met this chick and she is here for 6 weeks and brought 6 sweatshirts. I am here for 4 1/2 months and I brought 1. maybe I underpacked? no. i packed perfectly. yep.

yea, so anyways, i really dont like thinking of getting ajob back home. it makes me sick to think about. when/if I get a job, it better be SO FUN AND I MUST LOVE IT! argh. who knows...

NEXT.

my feet are really banged up right now. falling apart. possibly have athletes foot. the aussie chick left me these neon green jangals (flip flops) that she got for free. brand spankin new! ANd green is my favorite color---SCORRRRRE!

anywho---i have to go to the grocery and buy enough food to last me 4 days. there are no grocerys in able tasmans or stores. i think i'll just buy tuna fish and cucumber....ohmigod that sounds awful. i will think of something. atleast i have my giant chocolate bar and kettle corn.....wow, that was depressing too.

ok, must go!!!!!!!!! xoxoxoxo