Best case scenario: my visa gets here on time, I find another family who wants to hire me in January. I spend Christmas and New Years with Ader, and then work normal hours for a nice family as an au pair, not a maid.
Worst case scenario: My visa never gets here and I have to go back to New Jersey on December 12. As much as I don’t like being in the States, I would probably by that point know if I got into law school and I could concentrate on rewriting my novel and then finding an agent. Plus I wouldn’t miss family Hanukkah, and then it would still be possible for me to come back to Germany on January 11 and work six months more. Actually, I’m realizing just now as I’m writing this that my life will very likely get better shortly. Hmmm.
Speaking of things getting better, Ader is coming to Munich in less than a month! He’s only staying for a weekend, but then I probably don’t have to wait too long to see him again, so I think I can deal. Out hotel is booked, so for two nights I get to sleep in a room with heat and a lock on the door, and for two mornings I get to wake up to my own alarm or whenever I feel like it, not to screaming kids.
We’re doing a free walking tour on Saturday and then eating in a restaurant. I need to do some more research about which restaurant, which is my favorite kind of research. We might also do one meal in a beer garden, although I’m not sure how much fun that will be if it’s freezing out and we don’t partake in the beer or meat. Then on Sunday the museums only cost a euro, so we’ll probably do that until we have to go to the airport because the malls will be closed. And because I like museums. Actually, I like just about any activity with my boyfriend.
Next week is normal and then the week after that I don’t have my German class and I don’t have to pick the kids up from school because they have the week off too. I think that means I’ll have some extra free time, but we’ll see.
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