The end is near! Only six days until I will be done with finals and I will take two buses and a plane to Dublin! I am bit nervous about the whole deal and I am kind of sad to be leaving Tuebingen without really saying goodbye to many of the people here. But it will also be kind of nice to go to an English speaking country for a few days.
I am procrastinating like crazy on my last essays, I've had since last week to do them but I keep putting them off since it's pretty much all b.s.
I also haven't really been studying for the final either. I feel like I know the grammar pretty well by now though. Well I should try to start packing as well. Wish me luck.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Here I go again...
My computer is indeed alive again. I was able to get to the key command thing that allowed me to reset my hardrive that eventually reinstalled the operating system and though I lost most of my pictures and all of my music, I have internet.
Again I am procrastinating. Instead of writing the two "journal entries" aka essays for my new irritating interkultural kommunikations class I have been checking facebook, watching episodes of Lost, and writing this.
The girls and I were going to go back to Baden Baden to revisit the sauna/mineralwater baths one more time to relax but we decided that we all had too much work to do. The only really productive thing that I've done is wash my laundry and look for places in Italy to stay at though.
Again I am procrastinating. Instead of writing the two "journal entries" aka essays for my new irritating interkultural kommunikations class I have been checking facebook, watching episodes of Lost, and writing this.
The girls and I were going to go back to Baden Baden to revisit the sauna/mineralwater baths one more time to relax but we decided that we all had too much work to do. The only really productive thing that I've done is wash my laundry and look for places in Italy to stay at though.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Hmm
Well I heard back from the computer place, it sounds like either my computer get a 120 euro operation or it stays dead. And I think that right now it will probably have to stay dead since I just dropped a huge chunk of my savings on going to Switzerland.
Switzerland was amazing by the way. Lindsay and I got the smart car which was super cute and fun to drive (except when it was windy, it was kind of dangerous as the car would suddenly veer left 6 feet because of a gust of wind, but I am still alive woot.) We ended up staying at this little youth hostel on lake Luzern by this little town called Gersau. Lindsay and I stayed in the "Swiss Chalet" it was kind of old fashioned but it was very nice and much better than staying in a dormitory with dozens of loud school children who also happened to be there. There was a really hot guy that lived/worked there, I should have found out his name. I think he was the son of the owners.
The second day we were there we decided to take the train up Mt Rigi to a town called Rigi Kaltbad. We could have purchased a two way ticket but since I am a cheapskate and I didn't think the mountain was THAT big, we decided to take our chances and hike down the mountain. The view was spectacular. The air was really clean and cold and it was wonderful. The hike down the mountain was not wonderful. I got really sunburnt and it took us about 3 hours total to walk down the steep slippery hiking trail. Poor Lindsay fell down 3 times because her shoes didn't have any grips and the trail was all gravel. So I am pretty sore but I am glad that I went. Hopefully this awful sunburn will turn into a tan. (Probably not, me? tan?)
Switzerland was amazing by the way. Lindsay and I got the smart car which was super cute and fun to drive (except when it was windy, it was kind of dangerous as the car would suddenly veer left 6 feet because of a gust of wind, but I am still alive woot.) We ended up staying at this little youth hostel on lake Luzern by this little town called Gersau. Lindsay and I stayed in the "Swiss Chalet" it was kind of old fashioned but it was very nice and much better than staying in a dormitory with dozens of loud school children who also happened to be there. There was a really hot guy that lived/worked there, I should have found out his name. I think he was the son of the owners.
The second day we were there we decided to take the train up Mt Rigi to a town called Rigi Kaltbad. We could have purchased a two way ticket but since I am a cheapskate and I didn't think the mountain was THAT big, we decided to take our chances and hike down the mountain. The view was spectacular. The air was really clean and cold and it was wonderful. The hike down the mountain was not wonderful. I got really sunburnt and it took us about 3 hours total to walk down the steep slippery hiking trail. Poor Lindsay fell down 3 times because her shoes didn't have any grips and the trail was all gravel. So I am pretty sore but I am glad that I went. Hopefully this awful sunburn will turn into a tan. (Probably not, me? tan?)
Monday, June 8, 2009
Hopefully...
The teachers have been giving us ten times as much homework lately, and not just worksheets but essays and writing fairy tales, and reading intense short stories and answering questions about them. It's so much work! It's good that I decided not to take that extra 310 class on top of all this other homework they've been slinging at us.
I took my computer into the shop today, the girl was really nice even though she didn't know a lot of English, but she was very helpful and hopefully my computer will be fixed in a week or less and hopefully it won't cost more than the 40 euro they promised.
This Thursday I am going to Zurich! My friend Lindsay and I are renting a smart car and we are going to drive the two hours to Zurich and then another hour to this little town called Engelberg at the foot of the Alps it should be very beautiful, Kuck Mal!
I took my computer into the shop today, the girl was really nice even though she didn't know a lot of English, but she was very helpful and hopefully my computer will be fixed in a week or less and hopefully it won't cost more than the 40 euro they promised.
This Thursday I am going to Zurich! My friend Lindsay and I are renting a smart car and we are going to drive the two hours to Zurich and then another hour to this little town called Engelberg at the foot of the Alps it should be very beautiful, Kuck Mal!
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
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