SUN-day

First time I used my balcony. After a grey and rainy week, the sun finally came out today. My legs are still pasty white though :-(

wardrobe staple

Glamour shopping week with 20% discounts in a number of shops. I thought that would be good enough a reason to lift my self-imposed shopping ban. Off I went to the big city - aka Munich - and came home with just one piece... Well, that is usually the case whenever I go out to shop. And let's face it: I don't need anything and it's best for my purse, too.

Quite a miracle how I've gone through life without a classic denim jacket! No more though! (and cheaper than the leather jacket I wanted to buy...)

meteorosensitive

Serves me right, I guess. I used to think that 'Wetterfuehligkeit' (ie meteorosensitive according to my dictionary) was all made up. Since moving to Bavaria though, I am struggling with headaches whenever the weather changes. After summery temperatures last week and over the weekend, temperatures have dropped again and I've been having a headache since last night. Not massive, but subtly always there and annoying. Especially as a continuous headache tends to lead to feeling sick...

But not to worry: I shall live! :-)

Always beautiful

No matter what the weather or time of day: another trip to the Chiemsee.

cookie wisdom

The understanding you offer

will open many doors.

another world

Since moving to the UK for my studies after school, I feel that my life has been made up of different worlds. With every new phase, new people and new experiences entered my world but in general, all these different worlds (often marked by a life in a different city and even country) exist within me, but with little overlap.

On the one hand, one of the lessons I learned for myself over time, is that different people bring different things to my life (and hopefully I to their lives) and it's ok that they exist in parallel. And while far away, my friends are still with me and distance is certainly not an indicator for closeness.

On the other hand, I am now realizing that not being able to share one of my worlds with certain people also makes me sad.

Of course, I have felt language to be a barrier on many occasions. To this day, I feel an inability to express myself properly in German as well as English. Maybe communication is my problem rather than language...

But since moving back to Germany, I am also appreciating my language skills so much more. Switching with relative ease between languages depending who I am speaking with is very much a gift and at the very least is opening two worlds for me. Two worlds that will stay separate to a certain degree though.

I needn't have worried

I was having my first coaching session today. And I'll be honest, when trying to prepare for it, I was a bit at a loss where to start. And then I ran out of time.

So, my way out was to suggest shortening the session to half an hour (due to both our workloads). 75 minutes later, we finished the session.

Just last Sunday, I had asked a friend whether she ever gets to a point in a coaching session where she doesn't know what to say. Well, I think it's probably unlikely that I will run out of things to say... Not sure whether I'd be saying the 'right' things, but I do generally always have something to say. Note to self though: ensure the coachee does most of the talking!