Americans shake hands

Here they do the whole double kiss thing I'm not even so set on hugs...

Yesterday I began exercising again. Which is really good for me and something I've been saying I'll do since I started college and stopped dance. What finally made me start? Something that this typically not shallow low maintenance gal is rather ashamed to admit. I felt I would soon become fat....which I'm finding is really not acceptable to me. Not even fat just not ridiculously skinny. so apparently I'm rather shallow about certain parts of my appearance. lame.

I'm starting to feel about Turkish what I feel about Spanish. And little old Turkish women what I feel about little old Asian women.

I would kill for some coco puffs or maybe my fake count chocula :] had chocolate cake the other day--let me just say I like chocolate:)

I'll never be able to capture the beauty of a city by the sea at night...and nothing else can quite take my breath away in the same way.

you&me

love song

your song

so close and yet so far

the way you look tonight

kiss the girl

kiss a girl

Today's Playlist

Gracie-Ben Folds

1,2,3,4-Plain white T's

The Luckiest-Ben Folds

I gotta feelin-black eyed peas

kiss a girl-keith urban

irish drinking song

here in your arms-hellogoodbye

walking on sunshine

walking on broken glass-Annie Lennox

once upon a dream-emily osment

grace kelly-MIKA

you and me--lifehouse

music I just listen to because it makes me want to sing//dance

teeny bopper music-yeah I mean it

Jazz

country

musical music

add some take some...smile dance sing

also I feel really cool whenever I see my friends feeds and it says turkey or germany has arrived on their blog

Finally my life is exciting

ok sooooo 1 toddler + 1 baby +3 adults=12 suitcases and 7 carry ons!!!!(note I had one SMALL suitcase and a carry-on) and european cars=not that big!

After a morning of clingy Erk (to mom not me duh) and finishing packing we got to the airport and got checked in with minimal problems and also onto the plane.

Only problem on the plane...erk didn't want to stay in his seat and I had to drag him back like four times...ugh.

Oh note to people with small braty children that don't like to listen and have learned that if they scream they will get their way...DO NOT suggest that they put their bag on the carousel and let it go around and then get it because they will follow it until the carousel stops and then drag it. All the while pushing their nanny away and trying to climb on the carousel. yeah don't do that.

ok so we finally got out of the airport! and then tried to cram everything in a not that big van. Well it did all get in...I was holding like 3 bags the front seat was full and a suitcase and a stroller were cramed in front of me..it was a bit cramped.

Ok so we got here to the house and unloaded everything and I had to kiss everyone on the cheek I still smell like didem's dad's aftershave. But her family is really nice and all really welcoming and my room is smaller here but I have a door...more privacy and harder for erk to just come in. Now Im all unpacked and just chilling had some mineral water..still think its gross but I think I can get used to it but didem's dad loved that I drink coke light :) also grandparents will make my job easier--they will want to do most of my job like play with the kids but Ill find out tomorrow what Im doing for the next month for work.

Oh and since I don't have my visa yet techniquly I'm just a guest and not allowed to work lol if you don't tell I won't.

Ok so side story--I went shopping and yes it was fun but I also got something that was 3 sizes to big--I won't tell you what size cause I dont want to talk about how tiny I am. I thought I could pull it off though...got home realized I looked like I used to be much larger and couldn't afford new clothes and said Id take it back the next day. The next day I didn't feel like going the ten minutes to konigstrasse so I was like I'll keep it and find someway to make it work. But finally I got up and begrudgingly went. I think my internet temporarily had problems so I was like whatever I'll go. Now this jacket had been on sale for half price and not until I was almost home did I notice they refunded me the full price! so good thing I went back :)

--till later

Annie

nanny diary: entry 4

ok so today erk decided he was a cat "ate" his toy mouse and killed off several other stuffed animals for which we made graves. We then transported the graves in a wheel barrel to the other room where it was discovered they were all alive so we had to have a party.

side note:so far I've been "dead" twice the second time I was eaten by a lion aka erk

aren't kids great?

Nanny Diary: entry 3(kids and digs)

Ok so I figured you might care to see...well hear....read what life is like for me here. Ok so I have decided to begin with my room Since there are a lot of windows and my room is really half a room with a cabinet and...drapes separating me from erk. So all the drapes look really cool and are brown giving the room an interesting look. At one end I have a large schrank with a large mirror on the outside of one door and the inside of another. The apartment is large and has no hallways which is typical of european apartments

SO my family has 2 kids I speak German with the parents but english with their nearly 3 year old son--did I mention this is the third language he's learning? his name is Erk and he's pretty nice but also stuborn Im hoping this will get easier as he gets to know me better. Lara is cute and also only a few months old so shes kind of like a slug albeit a cute and loud one

Nanny Diary:entry 2

SO I got to Stuttgart today--after a long day of annoying prissy girls funny British idiots waiting forever to get on the freaking plane being freaked out by people driving on the wrong side of the road. Ok so my shedule will generally look like this probably get up at like 6:30 to maybe exercise a little shower and be ready bu 7:30 when I start work until 8:30 I help erk get ready and then take him to kindergarten I come home help clean or watch the baby till ten then do whatever I please until 4 when I go get erk and play with him till 8 when he goes to bed...then I have the evening to..oh yeah sleep!!!! but from jan 10 to feb 10 Ill be in Istanbul Turkey!!! seriously my first month in Germany...I won't be here. So I'll probably get a phone and stuff like that when I get back...or maybe this week we'll see how it goes. so if I'm not around don't freak out thats just cause I'm off being awesome. Ok have to go first early morning tomorrow while I try and skip jet lag.

Anne

Leaving on a Jet Plane

Ok so tomorrows the day--the day I will get on a plane and leave to begin this new decade in a new country because thats just how I am.

So if you decide to up and leave the country -- people will want to say goodbye yeah even those people you were pretty sure didn't like you or possibly forgot who you are. And if you have a wide selection of friends...or acquaintances....that possibly don't know each other at all and have a limited amount of time this may result in a large gathering...focused on you...where you are supposed to talk to everyone. Yeah not awesome. Also old friends that may now hate each other but all still like you cause living on the other side of the country makes you able to abstain from picking sides--and then shoving them all in the same room--also not fun.

what is fun--moving to Germany. Seriously just 2 more days and I'll be there!! I'm also not sure of my internet situation...so if you don't hear from me for a few weeks don't freak out I'm just getting settled Ok I have to go get ready for the lovely gathering. But seriously I love my friends I just hate being the total center of attention. Hope your new year has been bright.

Resolutions?

--exercise more

--remember to eat regularly

--be better :)