Wednesday, 18th July 2012
I woke up around 5 a.m., when we had already docked, and couldn’t get back to sleep. At 6 a.m., I got up, showered, and packed everything up. Of course, there was no sign of the others at breakfast. I grabbed a piece of baguette as a snack for the journey and was down at the dock at 7:30 a.m. sharp, where unfortunately there was no taxi waiting.
(mehr …)I’m sure you’re curious how my day yesterday ended …well, in short: I didn’t do anything from my list 😉
I went up to the village center in order to go to the new arrivals meeting. I was a bit early and strolled through the big antiques market which was here for the weekend. I heard some French, a lot of Swiss German and saw soooooooooooooooooooo many things (about 80% of the stuff they were selling) which only serve to fill up a house or a flat. And I decided, I’m not going to buy anything at all to just clutter up my flat, more likely the opposite and that it’s very likely that I’m gone before I’m concerned by any of the things they are going to tell at the meeting. So, I just skipped it….BUT… at least I did my grocery shopping while I was already at the mall…yay :-))
Back at home I started to read two books… I started with „If nobody talks about remarkable things“ by John McGregor…wooooooooooow…you really have to get used to his style but the book is super exciting and has a suprising end… after 2-3 hours I had to change to something lighter and found „Wishcraft“ by Barbara Sher which I had downloaded from her website in the morning. Yeeah…I know, it’s one of these „selfhelp“ books…but they usually work fine until I’m back on my normal enthusiastic level ;-))
And it had its motivating effect on me as well (that’s probably why she already sold a few thousand …or million??…copies) and so while most of my neighbours spend their evening beside the BBQ, I did a 7.5km (roughly 4.6 miles) run and finished the evening off with „The mechanic“… So after all not a too bad day…. :-))
When I woke up, I was already in a bad mood (a good sign that I’m nervous)… the plan for today was:
– 8:30 AM: cycle to the animal shelter and take a look around, take a dog for a walk or just see where it is
– 2:00 PM: go to the meeting for new arrivals in our village
– 6:00 PM: go to the Grizzli’s match vs. Biel (American Football)