Back to school - NOT

There we go again! Back to school - woohoo!


Actually not really back to school, at least back to our beginning: Milledgeville!

Atkinson Hall - GCSU

We stayed at Magnolia park, an apartment complex near my old home (the village) from Friday to Sunday last week. Due to the hurricane Florida sent us, soccer was more like scuba diving in very rough sea. Fortunately, I got to play in the shirtless team, so that I could really enjoy the wind and rain - awesome experience! After two hours of soccer and rain I didn't feel better than before, however, I got to know some more internationals! A guy from Finland, one from Spain, some from Asia and a German guy - Uwe, from Magdeburg, our proud Eastern Metropolitan dream area! Of course, he knows Bernd/Stromberg/Volkmer or just Philipp. It was weird seeing the new internationals standing all shy next to each other pretending to do small talk. Just like me about a year and 2 weeks ago.

If I think about it now, it wasn't toooooo great to meet them. Asian people don't talk that much, the Spanish guy is from Spain (for non-soccer fans: they beat us (us=Germany)) and when you are abroad as a German you don't want to meet other Germans. Why? Just take a look at the picture below!

HOWEVER, not all the Germans are like that - just take me as a very good example for German honesty and hard work...

Anyway, after soccer, a burrito and some movies, we actually didn't do a whole lot on Saturday. But we were pretty active on Sunday. First, we went to lunch with our friend Jeramy, who is going to Spain to be with his girlfriend Diana, and to work, but we are guessing the first point is more important for him. After that we visited with Sam's athletic teacher from GCSU who just had her little baby boy - 4 week old Ethan! It was great to hold him and we can't wait to have our own little boy to hold!

Unfortunately, we had to go back home and here we are: new carpet, still fleas, no sleep, feeling sick, bad weather...but the athmosphere is great! :)

Stay tuned

Bye Bye Bootsy

Yup, so it's finally been done. I finally gave in to Jonas's wishes (and my mom's) and I got rid of my kitty.


I've had her for almost a year which, in my short life, is a long time. I was her only known mama - I had her since she was about three months old. She was just a little baby. Her birthday is June 29, 2007. She was such a sweet cat (although all of my siblings will try to tell you otherwise). And just look at her - isn't she just the cutest thing??



She was always the sweet nurturer who cared more about her kittens (and me, of course) more than anything.




I didn't think I could ever get rid of her. I've been thinking about it for quite some time now, just because I know that two cats is easier and more pleasurable than three, especially for a limited living space, such as ours. I found an animal shelter online that wouldn't kill animals. We had to come up with some sort of story for them to ensure that we could leave her there. So, Jonas walks in and leaves Boots with her papers and they said they'd take care of it. They have a website - http://www.southernhope.org/ - and I've been checking everyday to see if her picture is there (if you go there, you'll see they have a bio and picture for each adoptable animal). I'm really hoping that they actually do/did take care of her. I just know I'll be very upset if I don't see her picture up there soon, because I'll only think the worst.





There was another cat in the house, Milly. She was my roommate's cat from college. Amanda (my old roommate) has Milly now and is trying to figure out what to do with her because she can't keep her.






The other two cats are the kittens from Boots's first litter. On March 16th, 2008, Boots gave birth to four kittens. I was in Germany, unfortunately, so I wasn't there to see the birth or to take care of them. Two of the kittens died, and the other two, Bo and Sophie, are the cats that we still have today. On July 2nd, 2008, Boots gave birth to another litter, this one with five babies. Unfortunately, none of the kittens made it. Maybe it's a sign that no cat under one year old should attempt to give birth to two litters.


This is Bo. He is our sweet boy. He craves attention all of the time, which is nice because often times we go throughout the whole day without leaving the house.








This is Sophie, our baby girl. Ever since her mama left, she has been a lot sweeter to me and Jonas (Jonas really really didn't like her before, but I think things are a lot different now).

It's a boy!!

HA, and you guys already know that part. Funny - I know...

Oh well, while fighting the fleas and trying to live the life as Nomads throughout the house, because we can't stay in our area, we were thinking about a name for our soon to be born son.

It's really not easy to agree on one name combination if your origin is in different cultures.

But we agreed soon on the part that traditional German names such as Manfred, Heribert or Heinz are not applicable for him to be named.

Soooo we came up with a pretty cool name, or like Chase titled it: A bad ass name!

By this time you are probably all just waiting for me to be done talking about stuff nobody is interested in, so here it comes:

Keegan Pierce Schuster

will be born in the end of September or as Sam would hope in the middle of September.

Talk to you guys (say it in the south: y'all) later.

Welcome Back to Georgia!

Okay, so don't make fun of me - I don't really know what this blogging thing is all about so I'm just going to kind of go with it. Jonas and I just returned back home from our adventures on the West Coast. Whatnot a better place to come home to than a flea infested house with a broken washer. Lovely, huh? We've spent nearly all of our time since we've been home (over a week now) vacuuming, mopping, bombing, bathing, etc. etc. etc. It seems that no matter what we do, we just can't get rid of the darn fleas! We've tried homemade flea traps; while they kill a lot of fleas, it doesn't even make a dent in our problem. We've tried bombing the place - we thought it worked, but the very next day there seemed to be just as many fleas as before. It's driving us crazy, we haven't been able to sleep in our own bed since we've got back because it's so bad. :(

In other news, I will be 32 weeks pregnant on Sunday. Yikes! It's getting so close! With the flea problem going on, I haven't had much time to prepare for the baby. All of my mom's children were born one to two and a half weeks early, so she's convinced I'll have the baby in about 6 weeks. I can't believe how fast it's gone by.

I'll leave you with my registry number :) Haha, just in case you're interested. We're registered at Babies 'R Us and the number is 82298681.

Bye!