Monday= Funday

It is another abysmal 30 degree day outside, but I decided to conquer it nonetheless! I got $$ out of the bank (thank god for monthly money haha!) and headed to the gym for an hour and a half. And, I'm sorry to say, I don't think I'll ever stop being emotionally scarred by women's' locker rooms. I was visually assaulted by like, 4 naked women within 15 seconds of walking out of my shower. ooof :\

I then went SHOPPING like any decent 21 year old with money to burn. AND, to make Aunt Mary and Mama proud, I got four tops for less than 30 euro! They're mens button-up collared shirts, but they're XS so they're still form fitting. The benefit of men's tops? They're made sturdier. Fact.

On the way home I got a mini-döner (gotta eat 'em while I can!) and now I think I'll edit my paper and perhaps finish season 1 of How I Met Your Mother. =]

Pics/Dinner

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Cold but lovely walk, and now I'm curled up by my heater for two reasons: 1) it is 30 degrees and 2) it is thawing my ground beef, and I want to keep an eye on it. Bahahaha I love being a college student; we get to do silly things =)


Meatloaf and "The Reader" shortly and then I'm meeting my girls at the train station around 9:00.

12 degrees

That is how far off the weather people here were on today's high. It is 27 degrees at 2pm, and I'm FINALLY leaving my house after lounging and scrubbing the kitchen. I think I'll go up to Schlossberg
(Click on the link to find out what I'm talking about, pictures upon my return!)

DONEDONEDONE

As of 7pm precisely, I am done with a 15 page research paper! To celebrate, I talked to Mama on Skype and made some home made chicken strips which were unbelievably good. And you know what made them taste that much sweeter? Two weeks of freedom, baby.

It is 4:30pm

AND I AM SICK OF WRITING THIS PAPER!

Please don't misunderstand- I love my topic, and I find it to be very interesting and worth writing. But after 4 days of 6-8 hours of writing each day, a girl's gonna get cabin fever.

I'm on my last section now, and then I'll pray to the Conclusion Gods that they'll bless me with a coherent conclusion. I think I'll actually finish this before I go to bed tonight, and then tomorrow I'm going to Titisee, or up to Schlossberg (hiking hotspot just above Freiburg) or something.

Bizarre moment of the day

I was in the middle of doing a day's worth of dishes, I can't stress this enough- in. the. middle. I had headphones in, I had my pile of dishes, I was standing in the middle of the sink, doing my thing, and the weirdo german who's like, 7 feet tall and never talks to me walks in, hovers over me for a sec, says nothing, and then takes my sink. Generally I don't move, but he's ginormous, and I"m not fluent enough to be an a-hole in another language.

Back to dishes, I guess?

Well then

That test was much different than I had expected. Things he didn't mention since October were all over that test. I blame nothing but my lack of experience with these types of classes. I did the best I could, and after speaking with other Americans, I feel I did just as well as any of them so hmph! It's a shame that unlike every single one of our other classmates, we did not grow up with EU stuff taught in our schools or shown on our news, but c'est la vie!

I also returned all of those bottles I've been hanging on to and had just enough money to buy a few chicken breasts, some bread, eggs, lunchmeat, speghetti sauce mix, and broccoli. I shall make it to February yet! haha

Now I gotta get back to my research paper. My friends have all left for Berlin, so I have no distractions for this lovely weekend, and I couldn't be happier! =]

Home in 16, leaving Freiburg in 15.
Here's my gorgeous city as of 4 minutes ago: