I feel much better, and later I am going to make a Gugelhupf (a round cake with a hole in the center -- remember, Mom??) and hopefully get over my fear of the kitchen for good!! Plans for ribollita are also in the works.

I realized that my journal entries have become mostly in German. Well, maybe not quite, but maybe half-and-half. There are only certain subjects that I can discuss adaquately in German. Sometimes I feel bad about this, but sometimes it's kind of cool -- sometimes I just think, Wow, I used to not be able to talk about my travel aspirations in German, but now I can.