You guys, I'm so happy lately and I don't know why. I can't comprehend it, and frankly, I'm afraid to ask too many questions of it. I just feel like I'm in a good spot in life, celebrating what's good and simply accepting what's bad. I can't understand why people worry and complain so much. I can't understand how people can just sit around all day ( Read more... )

Today I learned of two thousand dollars guaranteed for me going to Germany next year, $500 of which is going to my airplane ticket (which I just bought online for $501.50) and $1500 of which is going to cover nearly all of my pre-program language study that I'm doing at the Goethe-Institut in Schwaebisch-Hall ( Read more... )

I swear, all languages are the same. From this point on, I declare it my mission in life to discover the secret to unlock languages so I can just listen to a totally foreign language and understand it based on certain basic pieces. I have always been able to see that certain seemingly different words were the same, but I never knew how or why. ( Read more... )

Yesterday I had my orchestra concert and wrote my Spanish paper, and today I took my German test. I still need to write two papers for interpretation of lit. by Thursday, do a German oral proficiency interview on Wednesday, and write two "concert attendance" things for orchestra. After that, I have a down week, followed by a breezy interpretation ( Read more... )

Even if you rarely read people's entries and never read long ones, you want to read this. Trust me ( Read more... )

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My mom just sent me an e-mail with sweet news:

Tonight, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.

I'm definitely having a party.

Sometimes magical things happen, and I think last night one happened to me ( Read more... )

ATTENTION: Michigeese and Michiganders ( Read more... )

Being told I can't play music is pretty much the worst feeling ever. Caleb + Quiet House = ZERO ( Read more... )