New Life

Although the last couple of weeks at work have been hell, I am pretty happy they have happened (and are still). I have always known how important it is for me to have a routine to follow, and how much I love learning, and the problems at work have led me back into working a routine for myself out, bringing me again close to things I value and had at some point let out of my life.

Sundays now involve church. It requires me to wake up latest at 930, so I can have breakfast before heading to church in Spanish. It had been years (around 10) since I went at least once a week regularly, and I am enjoying listening to the priest, to those words familiar to me from my childhood, and to the intepretations.Sundays now also involve- if available- Fromula 1 races. I lve watching them and cannot come up with why I stopped over the last 3 years. It is over now though, and I will be up at 6am tomorrow to watch the race.

I am back to the gym as well. 3 times a week, and always on the same days unless I have German class. Tuedays, Thursdays and Saturdays are gym days. I am still only on cardio, but plan to move to Step and give Zumba a try in the next weeks. I am sure it will be fun.

I felt horrible when I received my results from my German test saying I failed the Essay. However, now I feel lucky I failed. I decided to take some classes, and go now every second week to a private 2 hour lesson. I am re-taking the essay in May and will pass this time. In the meantime, I have homework to do during the week: Grammar, Essays, etc. I spread them over the days, and have started going to my favourite place to study, Starbucks, to do homework.

The uni semester will start soon, and since I know I will struggle with the language, as all the psychological terms I know are in English and not German, I have started reading a book over General Psychology in German, which I read on the train on the way to work. The days I go to the gym I drive, the rest I take the train, and taking the train gives more structure to my life.

I still love reading, jigsaws, writting and travelling, and use my free time in them. I have started to enjoy my life again. True, I am back to working from home (for real work), working on strategies to apply at work, analyzing emails and preparing answers, and also reading books recommended by my boss, and books about coaching and other topics that I think will help me overcome the difficulties at work, but this working from home does not feel like work, feels more like school and I enjoy it.