About time I blogged!
Wow, I don't think I've ever gone without blogging for this long... Thought it was about time I gave a sign of life.
This semester has been pretty good and not nearly as stressful as last school year. To tell you the truth I think it's hard to beat last years stressfulness and busyness, I'm SO glad that year is over :) The 5th year is more fun and I've been able to enjoy being a med student. I just finished my exams last Tuesday and Thursday (neurology and psychiatry). Now I have about 10 days off before I the next course starts. I was supposed to be in the US right now, but had to cancel my trip because of the echonomical situation :( Such a huge bummer! I'll just have to go some other time!
So these days I'm just relaxing and preparing Christmas, which is nice. Today I spent the morning with my mother and her sisters making "laufabrauð". My sister and I are going to bake some Christmas cookies and make a ginger bread house one of the coming days :) It's been quite a few years since we did that! Brings back great memories! I remember one Christmas in Ethiopia when we made a gingerbread house it had completely collapsed one morning and noone understood why. We had "glued" it together with melted shugar so it shouldn't be able to collapse like that. We took a closer look... You know what? The sugar was GONE! How? Well... let's just say the ants had had quite the party! Haha! They had eaten all the sugar and left the gingerbread alone... so in the end it collapsed. Oh, well... we just melted some more sugar and "glued" it back together ;)
Anyways, I hope everyone is having a great time preparing for Christmas in spite of the crappy echonomical situation! ;)
This semester has been pretty good and not nearly as stressful as last school year. To tell you the truth I think it's hard to beat last years stressfulness and busyness, I'm SO glad that year is over :) The 5th year is more fun and I've been able to enjoy being a med student. I just finished my exams last Tuesday and Thursday (neurology and psychiatry). Now I have about 10 days off before I the next course starts. I was supposed to be in the US right now, but had to cancel my trip because of the echonomical situation :( Such a huge bummer! I'll just have to go some other time!
So these days I'm just relaxing and preparing Christmas, which is nice. Today I spent the morning with my mother and her sisters making "laufabrauð". My sister and I are going to bake some Christmas cookies and make a ginger bread house one of the coming days :) It's been quite a few years since we did that! Brings back great memories! I remember one Christmas in Ethiopia when we made a gingerbread house it had completely collapsed one morning and noone understood why. We had "glued" it together with melted shugar so it shouldn't be able to collapse like that. We took a closer look... You know what? The sugar was GONE! How? Well... let's just say the ants had had quite the party! Haha! They had eaten all the sugar and left the gingerbread alone... so in the end it collapsed. Oh, well... we just melted some more sugar and "glued" it back together ;)
Anyways, I hope everyone is having a great time preparing for Christmas in spite of the crappy echonomical situation! ;)
posted by Katrín at 12/06/2008 05:24:00 PM
1 Comments:
The exact same thing happened to me when a friend and I made a ginger-bread house several years ago! For the same exact reason! At least the ants where happy! :)
And remember, the economy wasn't much better for Mary and Joseph, either. It's all about the love, hope and the family. I pray for you and your family this Christmas Season: may all of you be blessed. The Lord has come! :)
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