March

Well, not a whole lot happened in March. I had a bit of homesickness when I got back from Ireland, but it was gone by the time I went to Amsterdam. I just bummed around Marburg for the most part. I had class everyday from 9-1pm and I spent my free time either doing homework, running errands or meeting up with friends. I don't know how I killed so much time, but I did... somehow.
I went to Kassel by myself the day after St. Patrick's Day and checked out two of the castles. One had a museum with Rembrandt paintings and the other artifacts while the other was a smaller medeval castle. I took a tour in German. It was cold.

I broke my laptop sometime in March. I was smart and plugged my adaptor into the wall wrong. It sparked and BAM, my laptop was out. Dead. Unresponsive. I lost everything.

I took my laptop to a repair shop in town, who said it would be 25€ to look at it and more if it requires so. Turns out they couldn't do anything for me and I fried the motherboard, though when I went to pick it up the guy tried to charge me something like 60€. I put him in his place and got my laptop back for the agreed price. ;)

I was feeling distant from my boyfriend during this time. It's hard when you only can talk for once or twice a week, for 10 minutes at a time. It's hard to sum up everything that's happened and to feel connected to that person, especially when you're preoccupied with the excitement of living in another country and the other person is doing the same old thing back home. I sort of knew that I might've felt that way before I left, so Steve and I both handled the bump pretty well. We're always open with each other, which makes it a whole lot easier to fix problems when they arise. He's always loving and supporting of my thoughts, goals and wishes and I can't thank him enough for sticking by my side and loving me! I don't normally like blogging about my relationship, but I felt it was necessary.