The longer I live, the more it seems to fall onto me that there is truly only one thing that runs my entire life: Love. I’m consumed by it and every tiny detail that goes with it. It is an idea, a thought, possible even a hallucination if you will, often seen in such different lights in our everyday lives. I mean, turn on the radio, open a book ( Read more... )

With all the hoo-hollering about the D in the past couple weeks, mostly due to the Final Four, but also because of the auto-industry crisis, I can't help but keep thinking about how far away I am from home, and how often I do actually miss where I am from ( Read more... )

1. Ich kann deutsch, malo hrvatski, un peu francias, ja vähän suomi speak, and I crave meeting others form other parts of the world, hearing their stories, and sucking the marrow out of life ( Read more... )

Wow, that um, went by pretty fast ( Read more... )

So I will update others, who are actually following, on the last few weeks with my "Week in Jyväskylä" soon enough, but right now I think I need to just type away and maybe get some things off my chest ( Read more... )

I never really liked the idea that I would actually have to get older one day. I never really liked the thought of having a full time job. I definitely never entertained the idea of having a wife and kids before my late twenties. I simply really liked the idea of “Growing Up.” It is funny to me because the idea of growing up really has nothing ( Read more... )

I didn’t know at first what exactly to title this entry, I figured I would just write and see what came to my mind. Ironically, the moment before I was about to begin typing my friend from New Mexico wrote me on Skype, asked me how I was doing and how Finland and the program was treating my old party habits. I kind of laughed and then suddenly ( Read more... )

Don't call me American ( Read more... )

Where to start? This first week of real classes has been like a title wave that just kind of caught me off guard. When I surf, I actually do not mind getting hit a little unaware, it keeps your senses strong and keeps you from getting swept away by one of the bigger, nastier waves that really can do damage. So, when I say the first week was like ( Read more... )

Studieren im Ausland. So einfach ist der Titel übersetzt. Aber, so einfach ist die übersetzung nicht. Leider, wie in jeden Fächer meines Lebens, ist sie nie so einfach. Study Abroad ist etwas, das meistens nur mit Gefühlen übersetzt werden kann. Genau wenn man sagt, Koelle ist keine Stadt, die ist kein Volk, Koelle ist nur ein Gefühl, das ( Read more... )