Santa's Little Helper

Potsdam, Germany
11:00 Pm
Foggy cold night

Hi folks,

This is my last entry before I leave for New York City.

Last weeks have been busy. At work we had a lot of children with gastroenteritis. The ward was full every day and I often stayed late. Oh this picture was taken after my last night shift.

Two weeks ago I played Santa Clause (yes, sorry, he’s not real) at Yannick’s kinder garden. It was so cute. The kids were shy at first but quickly got friendlier with me, in the end they tried crawling into my sack. Hilarious!

On the 22nd of December, we held the annual Christmas party at my place. This year’s guests:

Lea, Franzi, Christoph,

Donnée, Lauri, Sandra, Jenny, Micha, Max and Marina.

I spend the day cleaning and preparing the food: cake, cookies,

and a turkey. We spend the evening decorating self made cookies, ate cake, decorated the Christmas tree, did “Stehrumchen”,

played with Max,

and enjoyed the turkey. The whole evening was a success.

During the whole evening my Christmas LP’s were playing, a “fire” was sizzling in my TV and we laughed a lot.

Christmas this year was a day early. Marina and I left for Mom’s place on the 23rd, where we had the traditional goose lunch and exchanged gifts. Marina left to visit her godson and we (Mom, her boyfriend Henry and I) went on a walk through the winter wonderland. Marina and I left for Dad’s a bit later. More gifts being exchanged, the traditional potato salad dinner and a visit to my granddads afterwards.

Marina and I worked on the 24th. But that day I had a full blown Bronchitis. I was offered to stay home on the 26th and used that day to sleep, use my meds and drink lots of fluids. It’s a bit better today, but I will still fly to New York City tomorrow. Wish me luck.

To all of you that I haven’t reached per mail, phone or personally:
I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!! Much Health, love and happiness to all of you.


Andrea