February 2012 Goals
Posted on February 3, 2012 in monthly goals
February 2012 Goals:
- Practice and learn German every day. Moving to another country and not knowing how to speak the language is intimidating. And while I know that a lot of Germans do speak English, I want to learn the language. I think it will be hard for me, since I’m a freelancer and work alone. Nic will have co-workers to talk to and learn from.
- Work a maximum of 50 hours/week. My new schedule is going to take a lot of getting used to. I’ve gotten accustomed to working 70 hours/week, and I haven’t had a weekend free from work in at least 18 months. Even my holidays have been working holidays. I just couldn’t get ahead when I had a full-time job. Now, my evenings and weekends will, for the most part, be spent relaxing and exploring the city with Nic. Of course, I do have to be aware of the time difference between Germany and where my clients are in North America.
- Pitch myself for 3 projects. I’ve never really had to pitch myself before, so I’m going to have to start getting used to it if I want to grow out my business.
- Get my taxes organized for this year, and going into next year. I think this goal is self-explanatory! :)
Ongoing 2012 Goals:
- Post a new photo every day on my Tumblr account, My Life In Pixels.
- Only post my own photos on GMBMFB. I should actually start posting photos.
- Write one guest post for another blog or website.
Oh, and here’s a panoramic photo of Stuttgart that my boyfriend took the other day (with me in the lefthand corner). You can click on it to make it a bit bigger.
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Wow, the photo looks awesome. Best of luck with German! I’ve heard it is a bit of a hard language to learn, but being at the place where people normally speak it should expedite your learning. Go shopping on your own and try to find things by asking. A friend of mine (US born and raised) moved to China without knowing the language at all, save <100 words. He enjoyed going to Subway just to ask the girls in the counter for a different ingredient, sizes, etc.
Good luck learning German! I wish I could speak another language, that’s something I’d like to start soon.
Love the picture too!
Michelle´s latest post —> My Weekend and My February Goals
Can I ask you two questions:
- Why did not you rent out your place at home, while being away?
- How do you survive on $150 a month, food wise? : -)
Financial Independence´s latest post —> January 2012 update ($169,600 +$4,000 or +2,0%)
My home has rental restrictions, so I cannot rent it out unless it’s to a family member.
Also, I’m not “surviving” on $150/month for food. I’m living comfortably and eating healthy. :) I cook simple meals and rarely buy meat. My priorities aren’t in making extravagant meals, so I don’t spend money there.
A friend introduced me to Memrise.com this week, a great free resource for learning languages. Could help with your German!
Below Her Means´s latest post —> Garnishing of Wages
Hi Krystal, It’s so cool that you quit your full-time job to follow your dream of living abroad and of freelancing full time. It’s inspirational!
Hope you’re having a blast.
Krystal,
Every town in Germany has a Volkshochschule (VHS) which is your source for adult Ed courses. There is everything. Fitness classes, general interest, arts and, of course, languages. They also tend to be very cost friendly.
These are great places to learn German and meet new people.
Here is the site for VHS Stuttgart’s German courses (in English).
http://www.vhs-stuttgart.de/vhs_dasprogramm/vhs_dasprogrammfr.html
Good luck
Just realized the link doesn’t work properly.
On the left of the page click on:
das programme
On the list the opens up click on
Sprachen and Integration
In the middle of the page click on:
Deutsch als Fremdsprache/Deutsch and Integration
Click on the British flag to see the page in English.
Sorry, that was long and complicated.
Awesome – thanks so much! I think my boyfriend and I will look into taking an evening class.
I just wanted to say I love love love your blog. Keep up the good work. I am so happy for you. Good luck in Germany.
Learning German won’t be very usefull. You can learn the basic (thanks, sorry, food item etc..) by using any language learning tool but that shouldn’t take that much time. Most (all?) German speak English and you will always end up talking in that language anyway… If you are really serious about learning a language I think you should rather kickstart learning French. Just my two cents…
We’ve actually found that many people speak little to no English at all. But it’s not just about communicating with others, it’s about learning. We’re here for 6 months, and the world doesn’t revolve around us and the English language. So I really think it’s important to make the effort to learn German. Besides, my boyfriend is from Quebec, so I have an automatic French tutor available to me. :)
@Krystal Yee:
I agree. When I was in DE, I found that while most people spoke some English, the level was pretty poor.
That’s great that your budget is lower now even though you have rent to include now, too! Good job.
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Congrats on the good financial report.
Germany is quite the place full of lots of welcoming people. I am sure you will meet a few and get right on your feet.
I saw that you want to guest post on other blogs. Feel free to contact me. I would love to host a post by you.