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[fightheheathens]

i was cleaning up my room today and i found my state champion ring, that thing is redicilously huge. i also have our state champ pic up in my room. it kinda makes me want that 15 min of fame back. on the plus side, its making me want to run today so what ever keeps me running is good

Comments

enter them

[tieneke]

hey... so i'm not sure if my opinion is worth anything or not, but it sounds to me like it would definately be appropriate to enter your concentration camp pictures to the contest. It sounds like for one thing, it was a very moving or influential part of your study abroad and something that's been on your mind and it sounds like maybe is something you'd like to share with other people but aren't necessarily sure how - I can understand not wanting your family to be somewhat shocked by that. But I really think it would be worth it entering in some.

Re: enter them

[fightheheathens]

thanks

yea go for it, connect four

[imgoingtofrance]

i would enter it, too, man, i agree with tieneke. especially since its the german department, you know, that is appropriate i think. they obviously know that it happened and that the kids who studied in germany probably went to the camps and thus probably had pictures of the camps and thus probably they expect to get some entries. hope you win it, that sounds sweet.

and, that reminds me, where is that GD state championship ring? i haven't seen mine in years. literally. oops.

[missyoualready]

definitely enter them.

maybe you could make a seperate slideshow with the pictures of the concentration camp, kind of keep them apart from the rest cause you can't really lump something as moving and emotional as that in right after "here's us getting drunk at such-and-such place". i think your parents would be interested to see them as well-it would give them a better idea of what a concentration camp actually looks like and so on. when i went to auschwitz and brought the pictures back, my parents were pretty shocked that auschwitz I (as opposed to auschwitz II/birkenau, the place where the camp scenes from schindler's list were shot) had tree-lined streets, two floor brick buildings that looked strangely like buildings one would see on a college campus... i just think it would be a good idea to show them. and if you cry, i think they'll understand as best they can.

[zabiba15]

im so excited to go to an american bar. i turned 21 over here, remember? so, i havent even legally bought a drink in the US. i would say id go out the first night and do it, but i dont actually have legal ID. well, no, i have my passport, nevermind. still....yeah, im excited.

[anonymous]

Sup-
Good to hear you've picked up your trumpet again. It really wasn't as bad for me to start playing again either, I just don't have the range or stamina I had. Since I got back a month ago, I played with the jazz band last quarter since they were short on trumpets. I joined like a week before the concert, and I only played 3rd part and had no solos. It was a little boring but overall it was a good concert. We actually had 5 trumpets since they found someone from Western to play too. In the trumpet section this spring, Colin (senior) is back, Lauren (sophomore who played fall last year) is back, and there's a freshman named Ariel. Plus me and you is 5, which I think they might let all of us in. The rest of the jazz band is virtually the same as we left it, which is awesome. Everything was just the way it was and it was just like "here's your part Jeff." We have a guitar player now who's good and has a cool fro. It's gonna be a good funkin' semester
-Jeff