This April, I’m still coasting from a trip back to Seattle in March, will be spending Easter in Heidelberg, and will be cobbling together my last minute training for the Hannover Half. Last April? I had just returned from a two-week study tour, spent Easter weekend in Scotland and was wrapping up my training for the Hannover Half-Marathon.The same, only different, huh? Check out the posts here:

Home Sweet Home: I am back in town and before I say anything else, I want to thank Suzanne and Emily for filling in for me while I was away.  I hope you enjoyed their posts, because I know I did! I admit that I did have visions of sharing a wonderfully long trip report with you, but after a two-hour run yesterday that wiped me out, plus  staying in bed all day today with a sore throat, the enormous number of details to convey from a two-week study tour is overwhelming…

Irgendwo in Schottland: We have been back from Scotland since Monday night, but somehow I have not managed to sit down and write a blog post since then. Maybe it is because I have a nasty cold that has been holding on for the last two weeks. Or maybe because there has been a lot to take care of and prepare for at work. Or maybe it is the fault of those 600+ photos we took on our trip…

Learning through Imperfection: At the risk of sounding like a broken record, here I go again writing about language. I can’t help it, really. As a stranger in a strange land, language is one of the dominating forces in my life these days, and I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about vocabulary, grammar, and communication…

Weeks Seven to Ten: Just because you haven’t heard from me in awhile about my half-marathon training, doesn’t mean that nothing has been happening.  Well, mostly…

Week 11: I was all jazzed up from watching the Hamburg Marathon today.  The course ran just down the block from us, and there is nothing that makes me happier than waking up just a little bit earlier on a sunny Sunday morning, coffee in hand, and cheering on thousands of marathon runners…