Good news, bad news and good news!
1. Good news: I made my first friend this past weekend. She too is from Minnesota, but she has a much more northern accent to me. She is here for the next four months in charge of 17 post grad teaching students. She has to manage all of them and their progress, so she has her hands full. The craziest part about her job is that they gave her a car and but didn't require her to take a driving test. Even crazier is the fact that 5 of her students are in Berlin so she has to travel 4 hours (one way)on European roads with no GPS system once or twice a week. She is staying in the Langerhoff Inn (where Josh and I stayed for about a week) for the entire 4 months. So she only lives a few blocks away.
2. Okay number two is both good and bad news. Here it is...Josh will be deploying the 4th of February. The good news is that Josh is very excited for this. He told me yesterday that this is all he has been thinking about since he graduated but added that he REALLY hopes he is not dissapointed. The good news for me is that we don't have to do a full year for the time and I really can't complain because every wife on this base has been away from their husband for the past 6 months. His company commander wrote him a very nice email this past weekend introducing himself and explaining a little of what Josh would be doing. Josh will be taking over a Platoon after he gets downrange (once he completes his inproccessing in Kuwait) which is around 40 soldiers. I think I told you all that the current Platoon Leader's (the officer he will be taking over for) wife is a nurse at the clinic I will be working at. She introduced herself and she is also young and very nice. Also, I don't think they have any children.
Speaking of which, Josh and I saw Marley and Me yesterday at the theater on base and although I loved the movie...it opened my eyes to having children and pets. Josh really liked the movie and said that he was definately glad he got married and he said that he knew one day he really wanted all of that. I told him no! :)
This morning at 4 am I drove him to his company birgade because he is doing a week of pre-deployment training about 6 hours away (yet still in Germany). He was looking very excited to the week and really hopes he is able to learn some things. All of his buddies informed me that they have nights off so they are going to take him out.
This past weekend went by very fast. We unpacked all of our household goods on Friday and even though I got tired half way through and tried to get Josh to take a nap with me, we managed to get it all done that day. Josh even took me to the furniture store to look into buying a couch. Turns out we have to purchase it this next weekend because they are in the middle of inventory. He couldn't believe how excited I was. On Saturday, we drove back to Trier and walked around and went shopping. I got mad at one point because we walked into a cafe and we couldn't tell if it was seat yourself or order at the counter. They had a million deserts so I wanted to stay but since we didn't know how to order we just left. Josh got frustrated because I was but eventually I realized I was being silly and stopped once we found another cafe. We sat and chatted for awhile and then met up with all the other officers for dinner in Trier. Later that night we went over to one of their houses for drinks. I could NOT believe how nice of place a single guy was given. (Two story 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom house) It was the cutest Germany house (practically brand new) and some of the walls were even painted pink. I was in heaven and told him that he is going to have to give Shawna (the Minnesota friend) and I his keys when he deploys so we can come there. Shawna told me that I hadn't seen anything yet for the other officer has a house in the middle of the woods and she said when she looked out the window she thought she was in Ireland because of the beautiful scenery and all the horses in the pasture. Perhaps in a couple years we can move off base too. :)
Well I am off to run some errands. Yesterday Josh and I were able to skype with our family for about 3 hours and his parents asked him how he was going to do all of his little things while he was deployed. He said, "Mom, you know how you taught me to make those 'to do lists' when I was little, I now have started making them for Gretchen." He thought he was pretty funny but later I learned that he was serious....he's got in trouble but I guess I agreed to doing everything. Hmmm...thanks Mary and Dave for the 'to do list.'
Well I hope you all had a great weekend and a great start of the week. I will be on skype and internet for good so look forward to hearing from you and talking with you!
Truly,
Gretchen and Josh
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