4 August 2003 ---JOURNAL ENTRY TWENTY-TWO---
Excuse the sweat but it's 36 degrees celsius here which is about 96 degrees Fahrenheit. I'm officially on holiday, though still in Freiburg. I've got to tie up some loose ends, aka clean the kitchen, give the plants a thorough watering, finish packing and do some writing before we take the "Nachtzug" aka night train to Dresden.
I don't know much about Dresden yet but it was one of the most heavily bombed cities during WWII, but ironically not until February 1945 when Germany was all but out of the war. There is speculation that it was hit in retaliation for earlier strategic bombings by the Germans but hey, that was 60 years ago, right? We'll hang in Dresden for a couple of days and then take the Mitfahrenzentrale to Berlin. The Mitfah----ale is an organization whereby people who are driving from one place to another make themselves available to take passengers with them when they split the gas, so a train trip to Berlin from Dresden would cost about 25 euros each while with the Mitfah----ale it works out to about 6-7euros each. Pretty cool, eh?.
Things are going well. The semesters are over and there is little work for me, which has given me more time for the gym, though not much progress seems to be made with so many beer gardens around my house, it's tough I tell ya! I don't have too much to talk about today but seeing as that I'm trying to update the site more this summer and I'll be gone for two weeks I thought I'd put a little message up here on the webpage.
Oh yeah, I started working on my new novel last month and it's been exactly ONE month since I started it. It is going well, and I'm about to finish the first part of it. I've realized that I don't need to make it a long, epic novel and maybe it's "just" a story. I love reading old long novels but also enjoy short ones too so with that in mind, this book may be perfect for the small paperback as opposed to beginning as a hardcover and then working its way down to paperback. It's a story about people, and how everyone lives their own way and even though you may not understand why they do what they do, they always think they have good reasons for being that way, or something like that.
I also wanted to start with the German lessons again so, without further ado, here's this journal's phrase:
Sind Sie becheuert?= zind zee beshoyert?= Are you crazy?
