Tuesday:

Alyce and I went into the city for coffee and to do things, and we wanted to go buy our History teacher's office to get our grades, but no luck. He wasn't there. So we went to the computer lab for an hour or so, then went by Kaufland and then Restaurant zum Stern, where we ate yummy Italian food and I had tiramisu! Then we went home, and I spent the night reading Harry Potter and such. My asshole neighbor was playing his music really loud, so I didn't get to sleep around 3...Blah...

Wednesday:

I woke up around 11 or something...Then Alyce and I went into the city and got coffee...It's the first step of any day! Then we went to our history teacher's office and got our grades for last semester...A- and a B+ which we sort of kind of don't deserve but I was glad to get anyway...

Then it was time for the Great Shipping Adventure! We went to Argonnen and Tabea picked us and all of our baggage up and drove us to the post office. The lady behind the counter convinced us it would be easier/cheaper to tape and tie our lighter boxes together to get them in the 10-20 kilo range. So Tabea, Alyce, and I spent the next hour and a half on the floor wrestling with twine and packing tape. But it was worth it, I think collectively Alyce and I saved over €100!


After that, Tabea dropped us off at Argonnen again and I walked with Tara and Dietmar to Lidl to buy things. I got erm...things...Then Tara and I walked to the building-supply store across the street to get cigarettes. We came back to the dorm and Dietmar made sandwiches with his sandwich-maker.


Then I walked with Alyce to Burger King so she could get dinner, and I had a milkshake. I came back to my room, read a chapter of Harry Potter, then fell asleep until 3 AM...whoops...I already got my 6 hours of sleep and it is 4 AM...But I showered and am now chatting with Valerie and Scott. Wheeeeeee!

--My mom got a new job. Back in Cullman, so this means she won't be able to eat lunch with me at Klingler's any more. Booo. But, she is making more money and saving 2 hours of commuting time a day, so that is good...But I will miss eating turtle cheesecake with her!


--Britney Spears really, really should know better than to fuck with Johnny Depp. I mean, seriously.


Showing up at his movie premiere looking like hell and wearing a shirt that refers to her "baby hatch" (thanks for that term, E! Online!) as a golden ticket? She will be lucky to escape death. You know Johnny Depp has a trained squad of hit-ninjas that he will send to kill her once she drops her spawn. Her mansion will be in ruins and she and K.Fed will be gutted. The ninjas will take the babies formerly known as BitBit and Peanut Jr. to Paris to be raised by Mr. Depp and Vanessa Paradis, where they will rename the twins Celestine and Jean-Marc, and they will play polo and take dance lessons instead of eating Cheetohs and going frog-gigging.
--Speaking of Mr. Depp and the new version of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," I think the movie looks like a big pile of ass. All I have seen so far have been stills, but my God, what did they do to Johnny Depp? He looks like a blood-drinking transsexual.


--Mrs. Bush Seeks to Empower African Women. Hi, Mrs. Bush. I would like to say a couple of things: If you want to empower African women, start by having your husband give more to his AIDS initiative than the $15 billion over 5 years. We spend $3 billion dollars a year trying to end an epidemic that affects the entire world, but spend $87 billion in a couple of months to bomb and then rebuild a country that did nothing to us? Priorities, eh? And have your husband reduce, if not downright cancel, the crippling debt that is facing African countries today. Seriously. Then, if you are really trying to empower women, I demand that this money not be given to organizations affiliated with the Catholic church. It's a misogynistic organization. Not to mention they seem to focus more on helping AIDS orphans than actually promoting healthy sexual habits among the population (no, abstinence isn't a sexual habit. It's a lack thereof.). Prevent the cause of so much suffering, don't slap a band-aid on there and say walk it off...Oh man, Laura, there is so much good you could do were you not Republican...


--I have been dreaming of reaching home after a variety of obstacles for 2 nights in a row now. Tonight I dreamt I was in a snowy labyrinth and had to walk through it barefoot, and go underground and avoid looming danger to make it home. Odd.

13 days.

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