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+++ date = 2025-08-01 description = "Welcome to the blog" +++
I will be posting every day from today until my return from Germany! I will take the train down to Washington D.C. on the 6th of August and will say goodbye to my parents on the 7th. My excitement is nearly unbearable!
Preparation
I've been keeping myself busy. I'm using Anki coupled with the Goethe Institute A1 Wordlist at a rate of 60 new cards a day to crunch vocabulary. Because my prior knowledge of German is poor, I really need to keep a good pace if I want to be successful at the language! My theory is that my current circumstances, i.e. neither direct instruction nor immersion, lend themselves best to brute memorization (though I know Stephen Krashen would disagree).
I'm also packing. This is a good time for me to trim down on needless belongings because I'll be moving out by the time I return! I love Marie Kondo's methodology of joy-based purging. I find it quite freeing.
Programming
As always, I have a number of programming projects going on at the moment. I just completed Rust Elaborator, a custom tool created at the request of my step-mother. I faced a number of challenges with that project, the most prominent being that of operating system - she uses Windows, an OS I don't understand and don't have the infrastructure to run. As such, the Windows exe isn't, to my chagrine, built with Nix. I instead set up a Windows 11 virtual machine with Quickemu, downloaded Rustup, and compiled it the old-fashioned way.
Thank you for reading this post! I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day
~ Andromeda <3