Only six more days

I can’t believe it, time is flying by so fast..!

And what have I been doing?! Well, I finally decided to actually carry all of the medication I need for three months in the bag on the plane. I think it would be possible to send it but I just don’t wanna take that risk. That means, since the meds will take up 9 kilos I can only carry 11 kilos of clothes…what a nightmare…! Hehe…

Then I have packed a box with warm clothes and a one-month supply of medication that my parents will send me because after the volunteering project I’ll fly back into London, aggravate Pete and Trudy a little bit and then head either up to Scotland or down to the south of England to get a job….or do something totally different….;)

I’m also quite busy with the TEFL course (hey, if I don’t skip another day until I leave I’ll manage to get the course done exactly on the 20th..! what a timing..) and I’m starting to realise that even though I think I’m quite fluent in this language, I have no clue about the grammar and might just be useless as a teacher. I mean, I had no idea that the plural of ox is oxen. Or that the plural of cactus is not necessarily cacti.. it can be cactuses..! They’re talking about “auxiliary verbs” and I can hardly pronounce the a- word, there are so many things to keep in mind about how to use the board, what to do and even more important: what not to do, how to correct students without simply telling them the correct answer, how to “elicit the target language”, what’s a ”tense” and what’s a “form” … and I’m only half way through the course yet..! So yeah, maybe I should reconsider the idea of travelling the world as an English teacher…

Good thing though, I have finally won the wrestling match with my mp3 player so now it does what I want it to do (most of the time anyways) and after putting about 800 songs on it without being connected to the internet I think I deserve that all the way.

I have also attended a meeting of the CF association here in Bremen (for the first time of my life I think!). I told them about my Africa project and they were actually quite enthused about it. So know I’ll write an article for their homepage about my travels which I’ll try to update every two weeks. Kinda a short german version of my blog posts.

Then last but not least something about my health. I had a clinic check up yesterday and a lung function with an FEV1 of 54% (forced expiratory volume – the amount of air exhaled in one second) which isn’t great at all but to be honest I had expected it to be worse. I feel a lot worse than 54%, still coughing a lot, can’t sleep properly and just feeling shit altogether. But the doc said that is has to do a lot with me being so nervous and caught up with packing and stuff. “Mentally overworked”.. hehe… He’s probably right. I said I didn’t want to start any Cipro (antibiotic) at the moment and just see if the climate change in Africa will do me any good. I’ll still take some with me just in case.

So yeah, that’s it again….this week is full of having leaving drinks, making a few last phone calls or writing some emails to tell everyone I’m off….

…cos it’s only 145 hours until I leave..!