Today I bought an elephant...

I bet you're reading this because of the title. Ha! Gotcha!

But I really did buy an elephant today. Not the kind that eats up to 300kg a day, but the smaller, fuzzier kind. The saddest part of this is that I bought this elephant at ikea after seeing the elephant my moms bought Deborah's granddaughter and wanting one (now I have one, because they keep basically the same stuff at all ikeas, regardless of country). Why is this sad? Deborah's granddaughter is almost two. I'm not. But I love my elephant very much. And the proceeds go to unicef. Any naming ideas?

A really quite pathetic picture of me with my elephant...

In other Oldenburg news, the sun came out today. I said to my horn teacher "The sun is shining! What's wrong?". This was the first sun sighting in probably a week. It's rained pretty much constantly the last few days (or longer... I'm losing track). It's really quite amazing how "cold" it is here when it's still well above freezing. The humidity kills.

School is going pretty well. I'm starting to understand more and more, although I still have days when my teachers might as well be speaking martian. Who knows, maybe lessons would make more sense in martian.

Anyway, the time is ripe to curl up with my elephant and a mug of hot chocolate and possibly lunch. Until next time!

Oh, and for all of you who read the required comment post and didn't comment, FAIL! Unfortunately, I don't know who you are (it doesn't tell me who reads my stuff....). But feel guilty, feel very guilty.