Ich druck immer meine Daumen darauf.

I have been feeling a real pull to travel, lately. I talked to a friend of mine in Germany a few days ago and I feel like I am a world away from everything there. It´s as if I have been ´away from home´ and I have to work to keep up to date. I do not understand how I can be homesick for a place that I didn´t grow up in, and yet wish I could be there all the time.

I started subscribing to podcasts of the news in DE so I can at least hear German on my train rides to and from work. I feel it is an improvement from not hearing German at all. And, the woman I talked to about German classes on the Upper West Side never sent me the brochure and registeration like she said she would. Work has been a bit crazy, though. So, I don´t know if I would have made it anyway.

In relation to my New Years Resolutions I´ve got this podcast thing going, and I am reading Harry Potter auf Deutsch. I don´t know if I can read it fast enough or if I´ll even finish. But, it made it´s way into the competitors circle so I´ll see how it goes.

Back to work, my co-worker who just left had to do an exit interview before she was officially done. And, she told me I needed to watch it because the HR lady told her that 10 out of the 10 people she interviewed that day all said that they did not have a life-work balance there. I can totally see how that can happen. I live it. But, moreover in NY I´ve noticed I hang out with my co-workers here more than I have anywhere with any job I´ve had. Even as an intern, I was able to get all of the interns together once to go out for drinks and that was it. Once. So at least in NY, we get all up in each others´ personal lives and work invades life and life invades work. At the same time, I really like what I do and I never thought I would ever be able to say that. I am really luck to do what I am doing and I think every once in a while how I really got a lucky break. The timing was right, the job turned out to be fantastic and I get to meet and work with some of the most facinating people around the world. At the same time, when will the luck run out? At any rate, I am going to ride this luck as long as I can and see where it takes me.