Between farewells and fairy lights 😢🎄

Hello everyone! 🙋🏼‍♀️ Here is the new update at last.

What has happened in the last six weeks? How did the bachelor chaos continue? And what are my plans for Christmas? You can find out all this in today's blog entry. 😊

Let's begin. In mid/late November, I received some sad news. My grandfather passed away. Of course, this came as a shock to me at first. But since I believe that death is not the end and that we will live on with God, I see it more as my grandfather “going home.” 🙏🏻

Other than that, my days were pretty uneventful. Just work and university life. I had to work through various modules for media management. Fortunately, I managed to finish them. The 6-7 page term paper on “Why companies disappear and customers don't want their products” is also almost finished. All that's missing is the presentation with the most important information from the term paper. I've also finished my other major course, where I had to create a podcast and design 6 social media posts. This work will also be published in January. Once it's clear when and where it will be available, I'll be happy to announce it here. 😊

To balance things out, I had a game night with friends and a visit from my sister.

Now we come to the bachelor's degree chaos. At the beginning of December, I had my initial meeting with the professor I mentioned in my last blog entry. The meeting went really well, and I feel very comfortable with him. We agreed that I would focus on my “Media Economics” course for now, as I have an exam in that subject in mid-January, and then I will start working on my bachelor's degree. I already have a clear idea of what my podcast will look like and how I want to survey my listeners at the end.

At the beginning of December, I also noticed that my distance vision had deteriorated. So I went to the optician, who confirmed this. I made an appointment with an ophthalmologist so that I could have it checked by a doctor, because the optician had determined that my vision had deteriorated by 40-50 percent in 6 years. So I only had 50% vision in my left eye and 30% in my right eye, compared to 100% and 70% six years ago. Very frightening. 😦

When I arrived at the ophthalmologist's office, a medical assistant did another eye test. The results weren't very good. The doctor also did another eye test. Once without and once with eye drops. With the eye drops, I had 100% vision in both eyes. I could hardly believe it. After an intensive examination of my eyes, including a retinal check, he found nothing unusual. Thank God! The cause is probably the tablets I'm currently taking to improve my skin. They dehydrate my body, including my tear ducts. Now I've been prescribed eye drops and hope that this will go away. 🙃

Are you guys in the Christmas spirit yet? 🎄✨ I am a little, but could be more. I've already wrapped lots of presents for my aunt and her family and my family. 🎁 We had a little Christmas party in our shared apartment. We had a small bonfire, some cookies, mulled wine, and games. 🙂 I also went to the Christmas market for the first time on Friday. I went to Dinkelsbühl with a colleague from work. Tonight we're having venison goulash at her place. 😋

Tomorrow my sister is coming and then we're celebrating Christmas at my aunt's house, who lives on the Czech border. On Boxing Day, I'll drive back to Ansbach and the next morning I'll pick up my parents at the airport in Frankfurt. They're coming to visit over New Year's Eve. Then we'll drive on to my brother's place in North Rhine-Westphalia. We'll have a little Christmas party there too. It's sure to be nice. I'll tell you all about what we'll be doing together in my next blog entry. I'm sure I'll have a few more photos for you then. 📸

I wish you all a peaceful holiday season and a happy new year! 🎄🎆 See you again in the new year 🥂✨ Until 2026, when you'll hear from me again... ☺️