If it's not Raven, it's crap...

Two more days of 2016 left and four more days of this trip. Being the lucky bitch that I am, I just went ahead and caught this delightful cold. It's actually a tactic to help me not eat everything in sight. If you can't taste it, what's the point of eating it, amirite? Anyway, I put up my list of 10 things I hate and, as promised, here's the list of 10 things that I love...

Before I got together with Duncan , I thought to myself, "Damn, if I'm ever in another relationship, it sure would be nice to travel regularly again with someone." Actually, I had a long list of "nice-to-haves" with regards to my imaginary new boyfriend. As luck would have it -- and I mean really  have it, because I was oddly specific in some points -- he checked off all those boxes perfectly... except the whole Spanish thing. I never said anything about a Spanish Spaniard from Spain ...but here we are. It's my third trip to Málaga, Spain in the past two years and, of course, I find myself now completely qualified to share my subjective opinion about a city (that will probably bleed over into my subjective opinion of the entire country). I'll start with the "negatives", which are admittedly a lot more difficult, because my trips have been overwhelmingly awesome.

So, it took about 2.5 weeks exactly to get the results of my citizenship test. This is definitely a "your mileage may vary" thing. A British colleague of mine who is also pursuing German citizenship had to wait around 4 weeks. I'm pleasantly surprised, because I know there were at least 4 questions that I was really uncertain about . I'm also not surprised, because this was also within the range of the practice tests that I took.  Fazit  (as the Germans say): Go through the BAMF interactive question catalog completely at least once. Get a free app with all of the questions ( here's the Android app that I used). Preferably one that structures the practice tests like the real test (i.e. 30 questions about Germany, 3 questions about your German state) and then just do it 'til your regularly getting like 20 or so correct all the time.  Previous Posts: The One Who Got Away (Part 6) The One Who Got Away (Part 5) The One Who Got Away (Part 4) ...