HYS or what beer has to do with sailing...

Wow, been here since saturday and today is the first evening I'm actually sober. Well, not really but enough to post a blog entry!
The Navi-Bar (--> the place to be in Glücksburg^^) has a new barkeeper and since then the prices for beer have been massively lowered and they offer tarte flambée now. Definitely a good reason for staying up late and drinking more than is healthy...anyway I don't know a single sailor who doesn't drink beer.

And there is another very good reason to drink tons of beer: I can't stand my colleaque! He is listed as our head instructor in the sailing course I'm running together with him and another sailmate this week. He totally annoyed me on day one by meeting some friends and having fun while we had to work and he promised to make up for it on that evening shift but that never happened and since then it's only getting worse. Not only that he seems to be very lazy and not willing to work, he is the most incompetent team leader I've ever had. Told him we had to talk about it to solve the problems, but he finds that this is not necessary and that we should just go on like that. I'm so glad the week's almost over! I'm the head instructor for the course next week and I hope I'd be a better one than he is....

I made a lot of new friends among the other instructors and met many old friends and thinking about my friends I'm already missing them although I'm still in Germany and will come back here every now and then to meet them when I live in Croatia. And I'm still missing the guy I wrote the song for. Does anyone know a good method to forget someone? Except for drinking more beer of course...

xoxo- Anni

Health insurance, work permit and a lovesong

Some may think that going abroad is totally easy. I can tell you it's not! Today I went to my insurance agent to ask if I could get a travel health insurance. No problem if you live and work in Germany but if you plan on working somewhere else you can't keep your german health insurance, what leads to the fact that I won't have an insurance till I manage to get one in the country I'm emigrating to. That's weird because here in Germany you are legally bound to have a valid health insurance and no insurance is more expensive that the health insurance. 

The second big point on today's to-do list was calling the Croatian Consulate for my work visa. That was easier than I thought it would be, because EU residents don't need a visa to enter the country and can apply for a work visa at the local police station of the city they're staying in in Croatia. That however could become a problem later on as I need to start working right after my arrival but can't do so without a work permit. But we'll see...

Till then I'm living in a big mess of moving boxes! They're everywhere and every time I'm searching for something it takes hours to find it. I have to pack some things for my trip to Glücksburg on saturday and because all my stuff is packed in moving boxes already I decided to take only really important things with me like the coffee machine (more than important!), sweets (generally important) and some clothes of course. 

But besides all that there's a thought that bothers me constantly: what I leave when I leave. Last time I told you I'm a little heartbroken. Not the general 'life sucks thing'. The problem is - of course - a man. Right, it's always a man.... what else could cause so many problems in a woman's world, hm? He went on a business trip to the other side of the world (-> South America) for some project I know nothing about and when he'll come back, I'll be gone but what's worse is, that he hasn't talked to me since he went off to South America so I had no chance to tell him that I'm emigrating and now I'm afraid of never seeing him again. I tried to write a song about it and how much he means to me. Maybe I post a video with this song on YouTube...

10 minutes and it'll be friday! I can't help but think of Rebecca Black when I think about friday and her squawking voice get's stuck in my head...anyway I wish yall a great friday!

So this is me....

...28 years old, still not wise, trying to emigrate to Croatia, lonely and a bit heartbroken (maybe that's one of the reasons I start a blog....) and I really don't know how to write a first blog entry!
My idea was to start a blog to keep the contact to all my friends 'cause I have to leave them when I leave Germany in a few weeks. Then I thought 'Why not sharing my adventures abroad with the world?' Hopefully there will be adventures! Hm....I guess emigrating is an adventure itself so this will definitely be an interesting blog! But it should not only be all about the emigration stuff even if that might currently play the biggest role in my life, it should also be about me and all the things that occupy me all day long ;) e.g. the reason why I decided to leave my home country and that is .... sailing of course! There are so many more opportunities to sail at the Croatian coast than in North Rhine Westphalia. I'm working as a sailing instructor for Germany's biggest sailing academy in my free time since 2005 but only a few weeks of sailing during the season every year isn't enough. Especially not when you have to drive 474 km to the coast. Anyway I'm going there this saturday and for the next two weeks I'll be teaching kids about what a fantastic sport sailing is. I hope they're as excited as I am.^^ I'll try to keep you informed 'bout what goes on there!

So this is it....
...the first blog entry. I hope you got a clue of what this blog should be about and if not...just ask!

 xoxo- Anni