So I’m back home and going to classes.  Sorry I haven’t been updating but it always seems like there is something to do.  So know I’m here to let you know about my classes.  On Mondays and Wednesdays I have at 11:00 Manual Communication (sign language).  I really like that class and I’m trying to be diligent and practice my vocabulary.  It kind of difficult for me to learn because I’m an auditory learner (I hear it I learn it) but it fun at the same time.  After that I have lunch, followed by African American History which I think is going to be a good class, even though the teacher tends to repeat himself.  After that I run over to Comer and have my Fairy Tales class, which is FANTASTIC!  I am so in love with that class.  We’ve been talking about Snow White and all the symbolism in it.  I’m actually taking notes in that class, so that I can share with others and keep for myself.  Tuesdays I have Beginning Golf in the morning.  Its going to be pretty fun.  I’m not great at it, but the teacher said its basically the kind of class where if you show up you’ll get a A, he doesn’t grade on skill.  Then in the afternoons I have Foundations of Psychology.  I like the teacher, she seems very nice, but the students in that class… STUPID!  I just…. grar…. what should have been an easy realatively fun class is going to be a nightmare because the other students are morons.  I’ve had just about all my classes now.  I have a history class this evening that this will be the first time I’ve been to it so I’m not sure how it will go.

On the personal side I’m fine.  I seem to be busy most of the time and away from my computer.  I’m finally starting to get passed my jetlag.  I can stay up later than 10!  Woot!  I watched Cloverfield last night.  I LOVED IT!!!!  It was one of the best movie experiences I’ve had in YEARS.  Fantastic, fantastic, film.  I’ve also been watching an anime called Gakuen Alice which I am totally in love with.  In a not awesome note, Haley’s in the hospital and has been since Tuesday.  She appearently had gall stones filling her gall bladder.  Extreme pain, and one progressed into her pancreas so before they could operate and remove them they had to clear up her pancreatitis.  Needless to say she was doped up on Morphine for a couple of days.  She had surgery yesterday though and they cleared her out.  she should be going home today sometime.  And she had better get well, because I haven’t gotten to really hang out with her yet!

Now I’m just waiting for my classes to start.  Still have a couple of hours to go.

Hello Home!

Feel special. I woke up extra early just to give ya’ll a post. Today is Friday, when I have to check out of the dorm. I spent all of yesterday cleaning and running errands. Like I got up at nine and started cleaning, ran errands starting at 11:30 till about 3:30 then I started cleaning again. Because not only did I have to clean my room, I also had to make sure the kitchen, hallway, and bathrooms were clean. Sigh. But Daniel came over and hung out to keep me on task so I finished up by like 8:30/9:00 somewhere in there. Unfortantly I don’t actually fly out until tomorrow morning, so Daniel is being kind enough to let me crash in his extra chair for a night with all of my accompanying luggage. It feels like I’ve been rushing around all week, scurrying from one project to the next and I’m not sure when that is gong to let up. When I can just spend an entire day sleeping/eating raw cookie dough. I fly down Saturday, and sunday I have to do laundry and pack enough stuff to survive a week down in Montevallo, and then I have all my classes that I’ve missed the first week of. And ten the next weekend I will actually go home an pack to move down to Montevallo, so that maybe I can stop living out of a suitcase. Sigh.

I guess I just need to take it one day at a time, and hopefully this day will be over before 11:00 this morning. Hopefully everything that I need to get done will accomplish itself in a timely manner. I need to take my stuff over to Daniels. Check out. Close my bank account/withdraw 50 euros for rent. Go to studentenwerk have them sign green paper, sign off all my contracts, pay rent. Go to sprachzentrum see Dr. Marten for schein. Get schein. Go to EF 50 and shove green paper, and scheins into Christine Gerhardts mailbox. FINISHED!

I’m back in Germany now. That little trip home was no where near long enough. I’ve finished my presentations that I had to do today so hurray for me! Other than see peoples I didn’t do a whole lot this break. It was FANTASTIC to see everyone, old friends and family alike. Mom and I also saw teh exhibit in the Birmingham Museum of Art about Pompeii. That was… amazing, disturbing, and informative. If you are in the Birmingham area I recommend you go see it before it leaves January 27. Its $14 dollars with Student ID and $16 without. It was really interesting and I know that I’m probably not ever going to get to see it in Pompeii. Its disturbing to see the bodies of people who really had absolutly no chance. The people who survived the eruption of Mt Vesuvius were the ones that weren’t there. Pretty much if you were in the city you died from a myriad of diffrent things. If one didn’t get you another would. Like I said its disturbing. But worth it to see.

I flew in yesterday. I left Saturday from B-ham and flew to Atlanta (28 minutes in the air, silly huh?), then from Atlanta I flew to Paris Charles De Gaulle airport. I slept better on this flight than I did on the last one, but still not great. We flew into Paris while it was still dark. The lights of the city seemed to fill the horizon, it was beautiful! I love flying at night, when you can see the ground, and see neighborhoods, and major roads, crossing the land like arteries. It makes the world look so alive! *Sigh* Other than that I couldn’t see much of Paris (No Eifel Tower *sad*) I pretty much just saw the airport. And I saw the WHOLE airport. I had to ride a bus from where they parked the plane to like 20 minutes to the OTHER SIDE of the airport. Where we had to go into the airport left me less than impressed. It was dirty, and dark, and just all around not pleasent. The terminal I had to wait at for my plane (another fifteen minute bus ride) was nice though. I was kind of doubtful because the outside looked like a cross between a blimp and a spaceship, but when I was inside it was really nice. The glass ceilings and walls let you see all around, and gave it a very modern look. They also had very comfy chairs in which I slept for like two hours. That was nice. The flight from Paris to Dusseldorf was fine for the part I slept through kind of yucky for the part I didn’t. The plane was older and much smaller, but that didn’t matter because I fell asleep as we were taking off and only woke up a half hour before we landed when they gave us some food. Some weird yucky food that I think made me ill this morning. I don’t know what it was, but it was yucky. And they gave me a tiny 150mL coke. Tiny. Bah, the french. I was glad when we got to Dusseldorf though, because after all that french which I couldn’t understand it was nice to get back to the german that I could understand. Daniel and I watched Serenity and cooked dinner, and then I came home. Now that I’ve finished my presentations, I have to start doing laundry and cleaning my room. And I need to stop sneezing.

I think that covers just about everything. I can’t wait to be home for good, and stop living out of a suitcase. LEIBE!