The Final Days

It is August 25th, and I only have four days of America left.  I had a going away party on Friday, and it finally hit me that I am leaving all this behind.  Am I nervous?  I think I am.  That happens though, but I know that I will have Bear by my side even though she is staying in California. 

Luckily, thanks to her new job, she will be able to visit me quite often.  Well, at least as much as her job will allow. She works for a company called Pre-vent Feeders.  It is a horse feeder that prevents sand colic, choking and feed waste.  So she is basically being paid to go around the world to be the face for this feeder.  She gets to go to Britian to see the Queen's horses, Australia for a horse event, the World Equestrian Games in Lexington Ky, and Germany to see me :) !!!  Also, she gets to meet famous people: William Shatner, Katie Couric, and Kathryn Bigelow.  As horrible as I am with popular and current culture here in the U.S, I do know that Katie Couric is on some news team, William Shatner played on Star Trek and that Big Deals commerical for price line, and Kathryn Bigelow is an influencial and accomplished director (One of her movies is 'The Hurt Locker'). Not only that but by the grace of God I got a job through her.

I am being unofficially hired to be a german translator and "public relations" to germany.  I was paid to translate a brochure from english to german.  It was alot harder than I originally thought but I got it done.  There might be a few mistakes, but all in all I think it makes sence.  Plus, I had native speaker proof read it for me.  Hopefully they will hire me to translate the website next.  Also, I will be going around Germany to sell and spread the word about these amazing feeders.  I am a horse guy, and I know that these feeders are the real deal.  Either way, I will be able to put this on my resume.  I don't know yet, how well this job is going to work out, but I have a good feeling about it.  Both me and Bear have very high hopes, and are both thanking God for looking after us.  When I find out more, I will be sure to post it. 

Before Traveling Thoughts

Getting ready to leave is not as difficult as I first thought.  I don't own anything besides the clothes on my back, so packing was easy.  What is impossible is just putting my life in the United States on hold.  I have so many people in the states that I care about.  That is when I realized, it takes courage and drive to committ to something like a year abroad.  I know that what I get out of this endeavor will be priceless, so there is no way I am going to back out now. 

The reason I am creating this blog is for both me and the people I care about.  I want to really examine what I do and learn in Germany and document it.  At the same time, I will have my findings posted to this blog so everyone will know how I am doing without going onto facebook for six hours and messaging people and telling them what is up. 

My flight leaves San Diego Airport on the 29th of August.  I will be traveling for 18 hours before landing in Stuttgart, so that means it will be the 30th when I get there.  Then I have to find a place to stay because I am not allowed to move into the student dorms until the 1st of September.  I might just leave my luggage at the airport and go camping or something until the 1st.  Then classes start on the 2nd, for the first five weeks of being in Stuttgart I will be going to an intensive german course.  It will be like FTC of German: FTG! I will be in class from eight in the morning, to four or five in the evening.  It might be hard, but who knows.  My next blog will hopefully be shorly after I arrive in Stuttgart.