The Final Countdown

Doodle oo doo, doodle oo doo doo...
etc.

This is my way of attempting to make this blog entry fun.  I think the fact that I'm typing the synth part to an 80's Swedish rock band's most enduringly successful song sums up how happy and fun I feel about this whole situation.  This 'situation' is the fact that there is now less than a month separating me from the plane which will take me back to sunny Birmingham and not be waiting to bring me back to Konstanz again after a week or two. 
That isn't to say that I don't want to go home, there's all sorts of fun things there:

• My Family - ok bunch o' lads.
• A lovely lady - she's pretty cool.
• A house in Bath - its cozy
• A short jaunt - spoiler alert: it's not short.

All these things are things that I like, but that doesn't mean I won't be sad to leave Konstanz, the friends I've made and the city, region and country I've come to genuinely feel at home in.  In fact it almost means quite the opposite, whilst home is wonderful, I know that I will miss Konstanz and more than anything the people I've met and got to know here. 

I fly on the 27th, leaving me 3 weeks until the day that plane leaves.  In those 3 weeks I have a lot coming up, some of which I'm very excited about and some of which I really want to get out of the way in order to enjoy the former:

Those need to hurry up:

• Another Hausarbeit
• Exams and revision
• Bureaucracy surrounding the end of my time at the uni, in my flat and as an official resident of the city.
• Rain - yes its July and its been raining

Those I'm going to enjoy:

• Visiting Berlin
• A parental visit
• A girlfriendly visit
• Sunshine - it does get pretty warm, when its not raining.  
• German beer
• The Konstanzer Weinfest
• A lake warm enough to swim in
• lots more, I'm sure

Time is short, but I refuse to let that stop me from enjoying every last bit of that time.  This year has been unique, enlightening and extremely enjoyable and I'll be damned if that doesn't go for the last 3 and a bit weeks too.