Herausforderung

= German for "Challenge"

Two challenges for this weekend:

a) bike ride to Martinborough and back on Sunday - can I do it?  YES I can.!!!
b) talk to my neighbour Marlon and ask to join his Spainish classes!

Marlon is Spainish, and takes lessons and conversation classes.  I've only recently found this out via my hairdresser who live down my street, and again today when I met my neighbour at the Frenchman and his wifes bakery this afternoon.  I love that little bakery - for the exquisite genuine food they have and becasue of Oliverei and Megan the owners.  They have a genuine "local" cafe - which is a perfect French cafe in Carterton.  eg they achieved the almost impossible thing today of having my neighbour J and I talk to each other.  Its not that  J and I don't talk to each other - its just spooky that we are very alike in many ways.  eg live alone, creative in certain areas, we do like people and our work relies on it, but we are also to appearances or some people "recluses"!  What I love about Oliverei and Megan is they are the kind of poeple that get that.  They understand and make no judgement about it.

Anyway, for the same reasons I don't talk to J I haven't talked to Marlon and his wife.  Basically, just a certain shyness.  But the thing is I would love to learn Spainish.  I love languages, even though I can only speak some German, and a little Maori.  And learning off my neighbour not only means I get to know my neighbour but also learn Spainish.

And Marlon and his wife they love the same things I do - good food, house stuff, and the garden.  So that's my challenge.  J has advised me Marlon has Monday's off form his job as a matre d in Martinborough, so I'm going to do and knock on his door on Monday.  I may visit him when I am in Martinborough tomorrow.  Although I think I would prefer to get to know him on home ground, and perhaps not in my bike shorts!

Woop - nervous and excited - becasue this stuff takes me out of my comfort zone.  But I need to remember this is good stuff to focus on. And now I have to do both a and b!