Oops...

Agh, it's been a little while since I've updated - my apologies!!

Unfortunately, I can't regale you with exciting adventures that have happened in the meantime, either; my life's been pretty quiet and routine, but that's what I'm happy with.

Last Saturday night, I went with Frau Paetzolt to the Gewandhaus for a Youth Symphony Orchestra concert that her daughter was playing (oboe!) in. It was a great concert! Two pieces by Elgar (one being a cello concerto and the cellist was amazing), a piece by Bruch (?), and the ballet suite from Sleeping Beauty by Tchaikovsky (or apparently, in German, Tschaikowsky).

This week has been crawling by, to be completely honest. Monday and Tuesday just seemed to go by soooo slowly...just one of those weeks, I guess. Today was a lot better, and I'm excited to say I have a bit of a project to do! Frau Paetzolt was asking me today what my favorite group was and then she started asking me why I liked that group so much. Basically, I told her that I really enjoy working with the drug ward because the other wards I can relate more to - for example, with depression, I can almost relate if I'm feeling, well, depressed. (I know that's not the same thing but bear with me.) But with the drug ward, I don't know as much about it and I don't understand what makes people want to start taking drugs in the first place.

She then suggested I come up with five questions that I want to answer as much as possible while I'm here - the first of which being "what makes people start taking drugs?" She said the questions could be pretty much anything - her work, her colleagues' work, the patients, methods, etc. I can ask whomever I need to and maybe I won't answer a question fully (like the one I already have - probably won't since it's different for everyone) but it will give me something concrete to be doing, which I'm happy about.

So yeah! That's pretty much all that's new with me. I filmed a "commute home from the hospital" video yesterday on my way home to kind of show you the area around where I am, so if you're interested in seeing that, I will hopefully get that edited and up this weekend! :)

Tschüs!