Small things to break the routine
Yesterday morning on my way to work I met (or rather, drove by) an elderly man with his golden retriever. I’ve seen them several times before, and as always they had just bought the newspaper – obviously, as the retriever was carrying it proudly in its mouth… =)
Or the day before: I was driving home to my apartment as I noticed in passing a child waving a conductor / train driver (sorry, vocabulary…) of a train that was just driving next to the road, and that man grinned and waved back.
Although these moments are so small and unimpressive, I love them anyway for making my everyday routine somehow bearable. 
Apart from that, unfortunately we did not have any Aikido training last week – there was the yearly teacher’s seminar in Herzogenhorn – and I used the time to meet with lots of friends. However, starting today I’m finally ^^ back to training 3 times each week, and I’m really looking forward to it! And then, around the 24th of September, we’ll have our first Ki grading…
