Hi!
I will write soon... the lovely Amanda Dieker left yesterday, and today I will get caught up on things as much as possible... but in case you would like to write to me, here's my info:
Nicole Schmidt c/o Nosan
Kolodvorska 9
1310 Ribnica
Slovenia
Emails are lovely too... comments... basically I love communication.
Slovenia is beautiful and welcoming and wonderful, as expected. Love you all.
Friday, June 11, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Back in the Water
"There is no end to the adventures we can have if we only seek them with our eyes open."
-Jawaharial Nehru
-Jawaharial Nehru
So here we go again:
Yesterday morning my flight left for Halifax. If you don't know where it's located, you can ask Jeff Healy or Tyler Harnett- they know for sure and are super smart and wonderful for taking me to the airport :)
Basic agenda:
May 25-June 1: Halifax and Cape Breton
June 1st: Chillin again in Newark, the airport that has absolutely no readily available working electrical outlets.
June 2nd-June 5: Hanging with Amanda and Ronja in Stuttgart, Germany
June 5-August 5: V Slovenijo bom
I thought about renaming the blog, seeing as this situation no longer feels like an "Emergency". However, "This is a regular swimming situation" did not sound nearly as neat, and could potentially be misleading. "This is not a swimming situation" would not be true, and "Want to go swimming?" sounds like an offer that I am going to try to refuse, if strangers ask me (even though my father has a very specific set of skills).
But when it all comes down to it, I just really like the original name... plus it covers all bases (...and I don't really know how to change the name), even though it feels more like a snorkeling trip. I'm returning to places and people that I have already began to know, but want to see more clearly- learn again, explore...
In a lot of ways, this seems less risky, but in many ways is even more so. I'm trying to go without expectations... recognizing that things change in a year... like me, for example.
I guess we'll see, eh?
Yesterday morning my flight left for Halifax. If you don't know where it's located, you can ask Jeff Healy or Tyler Harnett- they know for sure and are super smart and wonderful for taking me to the airport :)
Basic agenda:
May 25-June 1: Halifax and Cape Breton
June 1st: Chillin again in Newark, the airport that has absolutely no readily available working electrical outlets.
June 2nd-June 5: Hanging with Amanda and Ronja in Stuttgart, Germany
June 5-August 5: V Slovenijo bom
I thought about renaming the blog, seeing as this situation no longer feels like an "Emergency". However, "This is a regular swimming situation" did not sound nearly as neat, and could potentially be misleading. "This is not a swimming situation" would not be true, and "Want to go swimming?" sounds like an offer that I am going to try to refuse, if strangers ask me (even though my father has a very specific set of skills).
But when it all comes down to it, I just really like the original name... plus it covers all bases (...and I don't really know how to change the name), even though it feels more like a snorkeling trip. I'm returning to places and people that I have already began to know, but want to see more clearly- learn again, explore...
In a lot of ways, this seems less risky, but in many ways is even more so. I'm trying to go without expectations... recognizing that things change in a year... like me, for example.
I guess we'll see, eh?
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Monday, December 14, 2009
An intimidating hello, a heartfelt goodbye
Last day of class poetry... those anatomy dissection students will miss me more than they know:
Oh to look out on all of your faces that stare
9 pairs of eyes, plus more in tupperware
A future without you is bleak, forever drearier
I must pretend my sad heart is not dropping inferior
This semester has been wonderful, so important to me
We've become so many things in clinical anatomy
Each one of you can now say that you're a great dissector
If anatomy were a flower, you'd be the prized nectar
We've become friends, collegues, a team of stars,
We've even become blood siblings, though the blood was not ours
So lets give each other a very brave and courageous goodbye
And hope to do this again (like maybe, when we die!)
Now don't worry, I'll still promise to say hi downtown
Cuz' I'm never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down
I'm now accepting ideas for dramatic and creative ways to make my students feel comfortable (kind of...) on the first day of class next semester.
Oh to look out on all of your faces that stare
9 pairs of eyes, plus more in tupperware
A future without you is bleak, forever drearier
I must pretend my sad heart is not dropping inferior
This semester has been wonderful, so important to me
We've become so many things in clinical anatomy
Each one of you can now say that you're a great dissector
If anatomy were a flower, you'd be the prized nectar
We've become friends, collegues, a team of stars,
We've even become blood siblings, though the blood was not ours
So lets give each other a very brave and courageous goodbye
And hope to do this again (like maybe, when we die!)
Now don't worry, I'll still promise to say hi downtown
Cuz' I'm never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down
I'm now accepting ideas for dramatic and creative ways to make my students feel comfortable (kind of...) on the first day of class next semester.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Whoa, I am a slacker...
Hi! Ok... to all of my devoted followers... I am so sorry about the delay in writing. This has been a crazy full month, and things are not slowing down even though they must... my train out of Slovenia leaves in 3 days.
However, some things that were too good to not wait:
1. Pomegranite here is called "grenade apple" in a direct translation
2. I have a French friend who I just realized has saved my email address name not as Nicole, but as amerka
3. Speed bumps are called "lying policemen" and electric fences are "electric shephards" (which is an awesome image, if you picture it)
4. People think that I have a good voice here
5. The translation of breathing fire (which I know, because I learned it at pharm camp and will be doing at the next roommate talent show) is actually "puking fire".
...if only that was what puking really was... I would look forward to the stomach flu so much.
See you soon!
However, some things that were too good to not wait:
1. Pomegranite here is called "grenade apple" in a direct translation
2. I have a French friend who I just realized has saved my email address name not as Nicole, but as amerka
3. Speed bumps are called "lying policemen" and electric fences are "electric shephards" (which is an awesome image, if you picture it)
4. People think that I have a good voice here
5. The translation of breathing fire (which I know, because I learned it at pharm camp and will be doing at the next roommate talent show) is actually "puking fire".
...if only that was what puking really was... I would look forward to the stomach flu so much.
See you soon!
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