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But what is SO ANNOYING is that they don't have third party candidates. Excuse me, but even though we're on this retarded two-party system, there are OTHER CHOICES, guys!!! Don't be lazy and just take the red/blue feed the media gives you. If you don't want shit, don't vote for it, no matter what color it comes in. *steps off soap box ( Read more... )

So I decided to keep an account of my travels for the next six months on a blog.  Why not this blog?  Well, because I want EVERYONE who has helped me get here to read it...that means teachers, donors, family, church members, etc.  I don't necissarily want them to be able to look back into what I was writing about my freshman year of college.

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i.  Tuesday night, Aug. 14
After being sick for about a week an a half, it started letting up on Sunday, so I was just well enough to sing in the final concert of the Singers and Vocal Coaches Program.  I sang "An die Ko:nnigin Elisabeth" from Maria Stuart Lieder and "Er, der Herrlichste von Allen" from Frauenliebe und Leben, both by Schumann.  I ( Read more... )

ETA:
Meine Schlusseln wurde gefunden!  (Ich habe Passiv auch heute gelernt!)
Ich fühle mich so viel besser!

YAY!

So lots of stuff has been happening here in the German-speaking corner of the campus ( Read more... )

Sache sind okay hier.  Jetzt soll ich ein Aufsatz schreiben, aber ich sitze unter einem Baum, schaue ein Volleyballspiel an, und schreibe mein erste deutsche Eintritt in meine Livejournal ( Read more... )

Yup.  T-7 days and counting!  Then I'll be in Middlebury again, ready to start a new adventure ( Read more... )

Because you get taken advantage of.  There.  I said it.  I've got three people taking advantage of me right now - meaning everyone who has been living with me for the last year except for Carrie Beth, and I just figured it out.  No, I'm not happy.  And no, maybe they didn't understand that they were doing it.  But they are, and it sucks.  And for ( Read more... )

Yes, today is my birthday, and I'm now 22.  So far, all's been well.  What is below is what I wrote in my written journal, and I just felt like I needed to share it.

"April 19, 2007
45 min to 22.

I know...there's something about it that's so strange.  Tomorrow, I enter into the realm of 'twenty-somethings'.  that nebulous eight years where you're ( Read more... )