About making plans with people when I get back, about starting work and school again, about how long I will stay at BRCC before transferring to VCU. About matters of the heart, about choices to be made..... It is bittersweet at times as it inhibits me from seeing and enjoying the things around me. Sadly it will continue I like to have a gravel road laid out in front of me, to know where I plan to have life go, but loose enough it can change.
I guess part of the good news is I found ways to relax this week and just enjoy my time here;
Monday was an almost normal work day for me. Felix wasn't there and apparently I am the only other intern who can drive. YAY! so we where off to the races to get stuff done. Herrick and I where tasked with deconstructing the back steps on one of the blinds. Not only where they old and starting to break apart but there is plans to enlarge the hut over where the steps stood.
The work was fairly easy, only a few dozen 13mm, 10mm, and screws held this whole thing together. The problems we ran into came from April. April April machst was du Will. This is a saying about how April weather can be unpredictable, and Monday was one of those days. The morning started out promising and sonny, but when we started working the Wind picked up and within five minutes there where storm clouds over head. About the time we looked up it started to HAIL... hard, and continued on and off for the rest of the evening. When the day was done I went to pull the truck off and had a little difficulty.
The Rack that protects the back window of the truck got caught on the tree and completely bent over (as pictured above.)
Tuesday I spent repairing my shada, a little welding grinding and paint and all was good.
Wednesday was a very slow day for us. Felix and I where left at the station without work so we found some for ourselves and decided we where going to build a bench for the courtyard in the station. That was a good Idea to us, at least. Denis however was not so impressed, but he had left us nothing to do, the shop was cleaned and the garage organized. Anyway we used the old wood from the deconstructed steps to start. A good way to recycle the material instead of just letting it rot away. We actually lost track of time and it wasn't until a good while after lunch we realized what time it was.
The work took some thought, because we where using limited resources and neither of us is really a carpenter so..... We also where trying to build a corner bench which can only make things a little harder. We ended up ending our work here and got back to real work. We plan to continue this next week when we run out of work.
Wednesday ended the work week for me. I had taken Thursday and the following Tuesday off to go to Italy.
When I came home I thought my roommate was reorganizing at first and then realized he had bought an amp for his guitar. When he came out of his room a while later he apologized for the noise and such, not that it was ever a problem for me. Then informed me he was performing at a local bar that has open mic nights on wednesday. I asked him where it was and told him I would try to make my way down there. So off I went to hear live music at a bar called Flic Flak.
I figured I would end up being one of the youngest ones there and I was, by at least 20 years. There was a group around my age there but they up and left before the hype band was even through the first song. Later another group my age came, apparently they where a hevy metal band that was also preforming. Made their set and left.... So I was the youngen who was enjoying the old rock and blues.
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| Tom the Blues guru Tom is a frequent face at the Reselfelder |
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| hype Band |
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| Roomate Nelson |
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| Friend Michael |
I also met a woman Semona there through nelson, but they had to close it down before she could get up and do her set. But theres always this week, I believe its worth the hour of sleep to see live bands every week.
Thursday I headed over to the Police Department for a visit. I had asked around trying to get patches from the local law enforcement back home to present as memento's to the guys I worked with. Thanks To Mrs. Tiller and her help the BRCC Public Safety sent me a group of patches to present. It was good to see the guys again and I spent a good hour or two there catching up and learning the things going on in Münster.
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| the patch from BRCC |
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| A gift from the Police department |
Now last week I gave yall a hint of travel plans, and sadly no one guessed where I had planned to go...
On Friday I headed down to stay with Josh at his new location in Saarbrunken. Luckily the guy was cool that runs the building. Usually there are no overnight guests and if the are found they have to pay 400 euro a night. which is ridiculously expensive. But the guy liked me and Josh and let us off.
So now the reason for the tittle. We had planned to make a day trip to Paris. BTW the hint is the phrase on the Paris seal. Anyway when I got in Friday Night we tried to buy tickets on the automatic machine. Well it wouldn't function. so the nest morning we where back at the station and went to the travel center, only to find out that the 2 morning trains where full and the only other train would give us only 2 hours there. For some reason we didn't think to go ahead and get tickets for Sunday. Instead we went back to the house did some looking around online came up with a plan and headed back to the HBF. Only to find the station offices had closed early. So we repeated this on Sunday.... Once again the morning trains where booked out, except for first class and we couldn't bring ourselves to pay 140 euro each one way.
We ended up using the weekend to bounce pathfinder character ideas off each other as we explored part of the town.
So last night I headed back to Münster, got to my bed about midnight. Wasn't my most restful of nights, my dark angels where tormenting me.
Always making the best of a bad situation,
Cody A. Glick
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