in the progress of moving

I'm leaving for New Haven next Monday.

Last week I moved out of my apartment. Matze's parents came by on Sunday and helped with the last things, helped paint the main room and his mom helped to clean the apartment because neither of us is the best cleaner out there and it looked really nice in the end although very empty. I went back really quickly the next day but didn't go up and look at it again. We had to pick up an endtable that hadn't fit in the car the day before. I stayed with Matze's parents for a day because it was Matze's mom's birthday on Monday. I got her a really nice and expensive shower gel and body lotion that I knew she loved because she'd been such a great help with the apartment and then I left for Weil der Stadt where my parents live on Tuesday morning.

I've been here ever since but not really preparing yet. Yes, I did some small stuff like buy a year's worth of contact lenses since they sell without prescription here and are a lot cheaper than in the US and I applied for a prepaid credit card because my uncle got one for my cousin when he went abroad and my mom and I agreed that that would be a good idea but other than that, I haven't been doing much. I have three more university assignments I need to finish but I haven't been in the mood to really get started. One is the proposal for my MA thesis. I need to read up on satire before I can write that and I haven't been feeling like it. Then there's a small area studies paper that should take me a day to write. I was going to write it today but the instructions weren't very clear, so I'll have to wait till the instructor gets back to me. And the last thing I need to write is the paper for the Brazilian literature class I've been postponing for about seven months now. (German instructors can be very lenient when it comes to deadlines). But I really want to get that written before classes start in Yale on August 27.

My mom decided to wash ALL my clothes. Everything I own. Not just the stuff I'm taking, so I've been very limited in clothing I have available. I think I have 4-5 more t-shirts but after that I'm running out, so it feels a lot like being on vacation or something. I'm used to washing my own clothes, so this is so weird. Not that I'm complaining at all, I just think maybe she should have left me some clothes to wear?

I've more or less picked my classes but I get to shop around for the first two weeks, so I don't have to decide for a bit longer which is great. Konstanz works like that as well and I love it that way.

I haven't been writing. I've been thinking about writing but I need to take the next step, open a Word document and actually write something I can post. Or otherwise open April's Camp NaNo file and edit parts of that so I can post them.