From Diego to the Bay!

So the luxurious days of Matthias coming to school with me, bringing and picking me up from work, coming home from a long day of school and looking down our long hallway to see him sitting on the couch....are over. We spent a nice and long time together which was extremely nice and very comfortable...until we realized it was time for him to start his new internship up north in the bay area. He originally moved from Germany to North Carolina for an internship...which ended up not working out, and we were able to find him a new internship through my step-mom's friend who runs the Flint Center in Cupertino. So his lovely adventure in San Diego came to an end Halloween weekend when we went up north to get him moved into my mom's house and meet the whole crazy family of mine. Needless to say, I will defenetly miss going on bike rides, hikes to Balboa Park, cooking together, sharing a bathroom, a nice and clean room and getting to see Matthias everyday!




Matthias took the brave journey up north with me to meet my huge crazy family. Just to give you some idea...my mom comes from a family of 7 kids and my dad from a family of 6 kids. My dad's side of the family is more spread out across the US where my moms side of the family all live relativley close. We flew into San Jose thursday night and had a nice dinner with my Dad in Campbell and Matthias was able to laugh at my dad's "great" jokes...most people don't laugh. Friday, Matthias and I went to the Flint Center and met up with his boss for the next couple of months and gave us a low-down of what the job entales, after that, we went to my aunts house,
who has 3 boys, ages 14, 12 and 10. The youngest of the 3 boys, Tommy was trying to impress Matthias the whole time while the other boys were busy doing thier "teenager" thing. For dinner my mom introduced Matthias to all of her friends.





Saturday, Matthias was still a trooper while I dragged him around to meet all of my family and friends. For dinner we went to meet the asain side of the family. Something to be said about my asain side: we are all very loud and hectic...most of the time we are talking louder just to speak over the person we are converstaing with. My Grandpa (Goon Goon) and Grandma (Poi Poi) made fried chicken and chow-mein for us...which was delicious as usual! He survived the hecticness and the drilling of the questions and has recieved the acceptance into the family. He was the first "outsider" of the grandchildren to come and have dinner with the family, so it was a pretty big deal....so good job Matthias! Finally wrapping up the weekend, Sunday we had brunch with my Grandma from my Dad's side and my uncle and cousin...and then went to watch my cousin's flag football game. The boys were excited to see that Matthias came to thier game! We spent a nice afternoon in San Fran for a Ski and Snowboard event my friend Jess was working at , thanks Jess for the free passes!! It was a lovely day and an even better weekend.



Now I'm back in SD and Matthias is in Mountain View, with my mom and my entire family...and I count down the days until I get to go back up north!!!

SDSU HTM Office and Blogging

I don't even want to know how much time I've killed surfing the web. I seriously don't cause just thinking about what I could have done with all that time would probably make me sick. I could have probably learned Chinese, could look like Arnold Schwarzenegger or...like I said, I don't want to know...Anyways, by killing time, I've come across the weirdest, funniest, most interesting, stupidest, most pointless, and most diverse stuff one could possible think of...For some reason though, blogs have been avoiding my comouter screen and I've never become familiar with "blogging"...

Last night, after realizing that I wouldn't see Ash all day again today, because she had school this morning and work right after, I decided to go to class with her, so I could at least see her for half of the day...
11am: German class...It's kind of funny to be in German beginner's class and I really wish i could take that class and get credit for it but yea I admit, that would be stupid. Anyways, ca one hour later, after straightening out, that girls in German Highschools do NOT have a mandatory class called "Handarbeit" (sewing, knitting, etc.) anymore, while guys just have an hour off, we went to the HTM office, where Ash had to do some advising. Sometimes, she only has one appointment, or even none but still has to sit in the office and wait for the 1 1/2 hours to go by. So after her first appointment, we started to kill time online again and by the wy, we are good at that, very good. We can just stay up all night watching old school musci videos on Youtube sometimes. :) No Youtube today though. Instead, we came across someone's blog! I forgot what it was but then Ash showed me Brittany's and Kyle's blog. (Brittany is Ash's friend, she met at work and Kyle is Brittany's husband. Check http://kpxfamily.blogspot.com/ )..."We should get one!!!"..."What?"..."A blog!"..."A blog?"..."Yeah"..."Hmm ok, let's do it!!!"..."Noice!"

So here we are, I'm sitting at home, well it's Ash's home, killing time untill I'll go pick her up, by starting this blog for whoever wants to read it...Fam, friends, etc...Ash is at work so I guess I had to start this but I told her that I would only do this if she would actually blog as well...But since we've had a really good time in the last couple f weeks, plus we are going up north tomorrow to meet her family, I am sure she'll have a lot to blog about soon!

So stay tuned!

Mattes & Ash