Münster!

Halli Hallo!

Two weekends ago I took a trip down memory lane and visited Münster!

Münster!

It was amazing to take a spontaneous trip and visit some familiar faces in a city where my adventures in Germany all began.

Julius, my tennis buddy from when I studied abroad two years ago, was the birthday boy, and invited me along to celebrate in the festivities. It was the perfect excuse to take a last minute weekend trip! For the past couple of months, I have been trying to get back to Muenser to visit my friends and family there, but one thing after another, things kept falling through. But it finally worked out and it was an absolute  blast to be back in the city!

Picture with the birthday boy
We got absolutely no good pictures that night...

Directly after my first day of  work, I took a train to Muenster and arrived right when the party began. It was just like the good ol' times with Julius! We caught up, danced and talked a lot, and I also met his new friends from college. They're all studying law and just finished their finals and planned on celebrating all weekend! We all definitely succeeded at that!

I also met up with Caro, one of my best friends a couple of times there. We bounded right back into  talking like we used to and I got all caught up on the latest from our friend group, Most of them are away either in college or traveling the world. In fact, the majority of them are on a gap year too and one is working as an au pair nearby my college so we'll be able to meet up there in the fall! 

The highlight of the weekend was definitely seeing the Beckmanns again!

They are family to me. Our families go back decades to when my dad studied abroad in college and I have truly grown up with Jonas and Flemming. They're my big brothers! Since Jonas visited Colorado this summer, he and I have been debating what to call each other since we've been each others host siblings, exchange students and long time friends. We've tossed around calling each other cousins, my "brother from another mother" and a few others, but siblings sums him, Flemming and I up best.

It was great catching up with them. Not a lot has changed since I left though I did get a kick out of them still going to yoga and pilates (I used to drag them along to it...) Flemming is studying a lot for his Abitur (graduation) this spring and Jonas is doing his dual study and  the entire family still lives and breathes handball. A visit to them isn't complete without going to the market and going to a handball game! 

There was something special about visiting them this time though...there was a click that I hadn't quite had before. I'm not sure what it was but I  came back to Muenser and finally felt like 

 I finally accomplished the project I left incomplete. I was laughing, joking and talking  to them how I would talk to them in English, but in German. They knew me as a kid and how I normally speak at home and had a similar realization and celebrated in the success. 

Fun fact: I was on my tippy toes in this pic and they're all still a head taller than me