Heyah.. I think it’s time for another post… I saw the doctor on Monday and there is good news and a bit confusing news. The good news is that in my knee there is no new bone built, but there is an imflammation on the surface of my bones… So there is no survey needed urgentely. As long as painkillers work. Buuut.. appearantely, as the x-ray shows, do I have a metal plate in my knee! That’s new!! I’ve never heard about that before, my Doctor who operated me didn’t say anything about metal, and there is also no need in putting a metal plate in my knee… it wasn’t broken!! But at least now I know, why I got soft electric shocks all the time in the physio when I was treated with ultrasonics… I just hated this machine, but the physio told me all the time that it’s because of my own electric energy in my body which must be wrong. AHA! Nope… Right know I’m waiting for the report of the operation in Germany, hoping it will arrive finally, and asking myself if that will change anything until I’ll be back in Germany in Summer. I don’t think that the doctors want and could do something here. And now I can’t concentrate on writing anymore ’cause Francesca and Sefora are talking italian all the time… loudly!

Hey Guys There are some updates in my Bulstrode life, but all of them weren’t big enough to make a whole post of each of them… so I collected them and called them simply “news”. For example, Tina and I, we moved last wednesday! In 475, the other room for Volly-Girls right next to our old room. And slowly, it looks more tidy and we can start to enjoy living in our new room. The reason was the soon arrival of another Italian girl, Sefora. We are staying here until Christmas and then move back, when Francesca and Jihoon are gone (sniff). What happened next is that I visited the Doctor this Monday, but all in all there is no news… For all who don’t know, my knee was that painful the last two weeks that I sometimes couldn’t even sleep or smile. I just know now that it’s definitively no bursitis, but might be a bone reaction (which ought to get operated). The results of the x-ray are coming next week. So there might be a new “news” section then…
“Raking the unraked” was our motto while raking leaves in Bulstrode Gardens today morning. That was for sure better for my knee than cleaning all the showers with “Cillit Bang” like this afternoon, but also tiring and exhausting for my arms… but I am happy. Isn’t that enough ? cu, I will enjoy a shower in the shiny, brushed and desinfected bathroom now.

Last friday I was supposed to make a one day food hygiene course and to take an exam immediately after the course… I was so happy that I could understand everythig during the course, even though there was a lot of information in a short time. So I felt secure to pass the exam and looked even forward to taking it (sometimes I love challenges). But I shouldn’t be proud of my understanding… As I sat in front of my exam sheets, I gotta little bit panicked… All the spoken english words in the course had been replaced through formal english vocabulary, and sometimes I had really no idea what I should choose, because I just couldn’t understand both question or answer … anyway, it’s over! And in the next weeks I will get the results if I passed or failed it. Nonetheless, I did the course and I’m scared of every kind of bacteria or “cross contamination” while handling with food now…^^ So Mummy, be prepared, I’m even more careful in the kitchen now. I could poison other people or myself… Disinfectant forever!

Every change in my work life routine is very welcome, and so today I was happy to move with 3 men furniture through Bulstrode… a very welcomed and different physical work, even though my back started to ache, but luckily the pain disappeared soon. It wa quite funny to prepare guestrooms with the guys after that. They really have no idea (still!) how to cover a bed and all its stuff^^ So I had a lot to laugh at them and their actions and forgetfulness. The rest of the afternoon we tidied up some cupboards with bits and bobs and searched in them for stuff we could keep… I found a lot^^ And in the morning I was allowed to prepare the dough for rolls and to bake them… (the scent of fresh bread is some of the best things you can ever smell)… isn’t that a perfect day??

finally… my beloved ugg-boots arrived today, original of course, grey and short… Oh I love them!! yeiiiihh… Tina surprised me while working today, hiding the parcel behind her back, teasing me with another one of her thousands postcards she got… It took them 3 weeks and I was worried whether they will never arrive… so I leaped up and down in them for joy ^^ it was really great and saved my morning I will never have cold feet again, and they are sooo gorgeous, comfortable, warm, fashionable, funny, cute, … simply ugg^^

Ha! Believe that! Our new half scotish, half english voluntary helper thought I’m English and he said to me I wouldn’t sound German but English… ^^ that’s a nice compliment… I know I’ve still a German accent but I really hate that and I’m trying hard to get rid of it… So it’s great to hear that an English guy thought I’m english, and a nice change to the sentence I’ve heard too often in Britain “Let me guess, you are Polish??”… ^^

I feel so cold here, even more I freeze!! In fact in the nights I shiver from the cold… and it’s just October! Have no idea how to survive the winter here in Bulstrode, we definitely need some more small heaters in our flat! I really don’t like it to be cold… suggest to hold every meeting in the next 5 months in the drying room in the laundry… by the way, couldn’t we install a beamer for movie nights there ??

Today was one of these days I felt like I will never improve my little english which is often full of mistakes… ahh! So, Hello Australia 2010!? Well, I don’t how my future will look like, but I am quite sure I will need more than one year to speak a almost perfect english… I really should stop to read german newspapers and to talk to my family in german Those days are just terrible. You feel stupid, can’t express yourself and to be so unconfident lets you speak even more a broken english… #ß+!$%&§!!! Tomorrow is another day…

Do you know the feeling that there is something missing in your life? I had the feeling for almost my whole life, even though I’ve ever been a christian… but I just knew, that the spiriuality in my home”town” was almost zero, and I always longed for Jesus filling my heart with him, feeling him, meeting him. That was what happened this morning in Goldhill Church! Thank you Harry for your dream to feel at home there and that we went there today morning… at least I felt at home there, and it’s a great opportunity that I can go there for the next 10 months… Thanks Jesus for placing me here, that my spiritual life finally changed and improved!!!

Yeah, had some time to upload some pics… so feel free and have a look at MY castle and the beautiful gardens around it Bulstrode is for me one of the most beautiful places of my little world (outside of course ) …yet my little world is not enough, it’s good to be here, but after that gap-year… and some London pics… time to go there again, next weekend!?
And now I have to leave for pastorate, the st-james-church’s housegroup…
bye bye
xoxo Julia