Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

Hi everybody!

Finally, we are back and we have a couple of good stories for you.

First of all, it snowed only once so far and we had a small ice storm, but on all other days the weather is just fine. However, when it started snowing, it was snowing the whole day and we had a power cut. But it turned out pretty romantic, with all the candles we were lighting up :)

Nashville

Atlanta

Furthermore I can proudly tell, we made it to Nashville and Atlanta. Especially, when we headed back, it took us forever. It was raining like crazy and due to a lot of accidents that happened, we barely moved forwards, so we arrived at 1am in the morning. But we had a great time! We went line dancing at the Wilde Horse Saloon; had some great burgers and we had a tour through Nashville learning about all the great Country singers and places they were performing at. Nashville and Atlanta are absolute gorgeous cities and we had a great time there.

A week ago we went to the ballet “The Nutcracker” and it was wonderful! The music was amazing and so was the dancing! It kind of got us in the Christmas mood, even when the weather didn’t. And of course Royal Oak started to look amazing in its Christmas dress. All the lights and Santa Clauses!

Of course I needed to bake some German Christmas cookies! It took me some time to find all the ingredients, but I made it and I found some cookie cutters in our counters. My Canadian roommate tried some and nearly ate the whole box. It is always the same; it takes forever to bake them, but eating them is done in minutes.

On the 25^th my parents and my brother arrived, so I will spend a lot of time with sightseeing and shopping of course. I am really lucky to have them here, especially because they are cooking for me. You need to know, I am quite lazy and most of the time I eat noodles J

I am beginning to be sad, since there are only six weeks left till Sophia will leave. This is nearly nothing in intern time and I will miss her a lot! I think we are a pretty nice team.

Well, the New Year is coming up and with it a lot of new experiences and interns and I am curious about all the things that will happen!

Happy New Year to all of you!

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