lalala I still exist, I love this weekend because ( Read more... )

Class starts tomorrow. I feel like I'm too out of it to be scared ( Read more... )

I spent all day planning what to see on my trip that's from this Friday to next Friday with other people. I'm meeting Maraia in Köln with some RC Freunde and then we are there for three nights and then we go to Aachen for six hours and see Charlemagne's cathedral and where he's buried and sweet stuff like that, and then we go to Bruges! Belgium! ( Read more... )

I'm trying to take every opportunity and make friends and try things, and then there's homework and three hours of class every day. Talking and new people and new experiences are the goal of this year, so I'm trying as hard as I can. At home, my goals were to exert as little effort as possible and spend as little money as possible, and that made me ( Read more... )

It's fucking quarter to three in the morning here and I'm TODMÜDE = DEAD TIRED and have to get up early for uni orientation shit that is important and give a presenation in class and then not be lame and go home and nap. I never go home and nap, don't worry ( Read more... )

Germany and Europe are pretty awesome and stuff, but after a week of nonstop activity, (and 3 weeks of ALMOST nonstop activity) I am completely worn out. Still probably having a "mono-like virus" (what a fucking copout diagnosis) while studying abroad is awful. I've been trying to take advantage of every opportunity but I'm afraid my body's going ( Read more... )

I suck at getting stuff done ( Read more... )

For anyone who's interested, I'm writing what I call my REAL blog, where I try harder to say things that are actually interesting-about being in Germany, etc. The URL is http://mapooka.blogspot.com and it's called der Landstreicher: You'll Need This For When the Prussians Come.

So, yeah. You should read it!

P.S. 'Landstreicher' means tramp, hobo, ( Read more... )

When I sit down at the computer, I just want to write German, because I've been hearing it and trying to communicate in it all day. But when I sit down at the computer, it's to communicate with home. FUCK. And why do I want to write in German, when I do such a terrible job of speaking it??

Possibly it's connected to how I want to write everything ( Read more... )

So I was wrong about posting, mainly due to having NO TIME AT ALL ( Read more... )