will i ever see the sun?

it's one thing to be somewhere else but to have no sun makes it kind of depressing, no?

i can't get a hold on the jet lag if that's what i have. the first night i slept 12 hours and last night i couldn't get to sleep and finally passed out i guess around one in the morning.

i spent the day just hanging out at the house cause everyone here is sick except me and the dad.

the kids are ok. gernot is the one with 'special needs' if that's what it's called. he is speaking in complete sentences and running which is way more than the last time i saw him. wolfram is talking up a storm and learning how to hit his brother back!

gernot can go potty (read just pee) in the toilet but he poops in his pants. i guess that's ok. i will just have to remember to bring lots of extra clothes. most kids just hold in the poo until they have a diaper on at naps or at bedtime but at least he lets everyone know he has to pee!

this week i have to set up my bank account here as well as register with the canton of basel to get a 'living' permit. there are 3. A, B and C. i think i get a B one but i will know more later. i need this letter too from the bank or whoever issued my work visa so that i can get a phone.

i am going to look at a place to live today and they are the only people that wrote me back so i am hopeful they want to let me live there!

my french press made it so i am having my coffee and we'll have the obligatory bread and jam for breakfast...with nutella of course!

it's weird being six hours ahead of everyone and i miss my phone so much.

i miss henry and catherine like crazy as well as the family i lived with oren and ginny and their wacky kids and perpetual house guests!
(seriously i have never known anyone who has had this many house guests in the six months i lived there!!)

but that tells me that they are loved by many people.

i miss my saturday brunch/beers/coffee with corey

i miss mille bournes with brian

i miss my neighbors tony and moochie

i miss spartacus the wonder beast

i miss simply talking on the phone to whomever...

all in all it seems ok. i don't want to get sick so i am playing keep away from the germs game...i was already sick last week and don't want to get sick again...

i will take some photos today on my excursion to the other side of the rhine to look at my hopefully new flat!

much love