Like a stone skipping

It was the best of times, it was truckin' times.

I thought it would be a good decision to start one of these during this time to try to crystalize my thoughts and experiences while on this adventure.

My name is James and as said above I am on an adventure. Next week I start a three month intensive course at 'the' juggling school JongliernenKatakomben in Berlin. I have been saving and building myself for this period now for about a year. A sad part of this meant that I had to spend much of my time working in order to be able to afford this but that is an entirely different kettle of fish. So in the coming time I will be updating this blog with how I am doing, my thoughts and my progress (though there will be no x catches i promise...). So where am I now you ask??

So far on this journey I have briefly poped by Berlin between my time in London and Leipzig (to see my sister and her family for a bit). It has been quite fun here in Leipzig though I must say that there is very little english here and when i start to get flustered i end up talking in either french or russian without thinking about it which always ends up with puzzled faces loking back at me. All in all though it has been a great transition between newfoundland and Berlin I think as I am beginning to get more accustomed to German culture.
(London was great thanks to a special person who was so kind)

So already I have started a new note-book (Those of you who know me will be familiar with the fact that I very much like note book - Moleskin in particular) and it is starting to fill page by page. I have already found a few costume ideas and made a couple of juggling purchases (with more to come though I have to watch myself...).

My sister put it to me that I should try to solidify my goals for this period for not only my clarity but also for my Teacher/ Coach/ Guide. On the topic of the T/C/G I am excited and nervous becasue this will be the first time that I will have someone who knows much much more than me than me on the topic of juggling spending significant time on getting me to improve.

But I am beginning to ramble and also need to get today going so I am going to sum up my goal for my time here with one word and will expand on that later:
Growth.