September 2010
10 posts
Schlossberg 09.11.2010 →
This is my album from a trip I took up the Schlossberg, a mountain (though they call it a big hill) in the middle of town!
Let me know if the link doesn’t work right, but it should!
[09.17.2010 2:48PM] In which I try to start a good...
I woke up this morning and I said “today is going to be a good day!” and I meant it! It rained, I nearly missed my bus, some other things happen that I can’t remember and then just now I spent an hour and a half walking around an unfamiliar part of the city because I wasn’t paying attention, got on the wrong bus and just kinda phased out for like 20 minutes (the time it...
[09.14.2010 9:39PM] In which I spend hundreds of...
I’ve made the first big mistake as a student abroad, and I’m going to pay heavily for it. I’ve called home like 6 or 7 times and it was only today I thought to see just how expensive it was. I knew it was going to be outrageously expensive, probably several dollars a minute, but still, it would have been worth it to be able to call home and here my parents’ voice…
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[09.10.2010 1:02PM] In which I over-do it, go to...
So I screwed up my foot, walking too much ya know, and now I have to limp everywhere which is making it WORSE! I went to an Irish concert last night with Mosi and his family, his parents are pretty cool and I had a blast at the concert. Hearing a bunch of old Irishmen speaking German was kinda funny. There were a couple of times when they played a few songs that had no words and almost as one the...
[09.07.2010 4:11PM] In which I am still sick but...
Begh, still a little sick, but I figured out it was from yesterday when I walked around in the rain and chilly weather for an hour after just having taken a shower. Well, I treat myself in a very laissez-faire kind of way, apparently. Today was pretty cool though, met a lot of people and most importantly people who live around me! A serbian named Ada, a guy from St. Louis named shane (Like train,...
[09.07.2010 6:13AM] In which I am miserable... And...
I’m sick, and it sucks muchly. I’m sneezing, coughing, my throat is sore… Eeeegh! I’m going to search for some Benadryl/Ibuprofen or whatever the analog over here is today and hopefully that’ll help. Or maybe some mint tea or something, I don’t know… But I still have a day left until Mosi gets back where I can ask him about where to FIND medicine… So...
[09.05.2010 5:07PM] In which I speak gratuitous...
Heute, ich-… Already I’ve been speaking a lot of german and the first thing I tried to start to write was in german. Today was the first day Mosi spoke only in german to me (well, it was a lot of german, but we tended to go off in english most of the time). I spoke much, much better (in my mind while I was writing that I was thinking “viel, viel besser” in perfect time as...
[09.04.2010 9:53PM] In which I explore, fail at...
Had a looong day! Mosi showed me a little around Graz and I found out there actually ARE places where my debit card won’t work because it requires this little chip thing. Went and hung out at an Irish bar and listen to drunk irishmen singing about who knows what… And now I just finished unpacking, I’m back in my room, the room is spinning from no sleep… But I still need to...
[09.04.2010 3:52AM] Heathrow is large, in charge,...
Here I am in Heathrow, this place is HUGE! It’s at least three times bigger than the whole downtown city-block area of Paducah, and it’s JUST an airport! Oh my god! I’m also convinced that England is summarily populated by extremely tall white men and gaggles of muslim women and child… With the occasional east asian thrown in for variety’s sake.
It’s almost...
[09.03.2010 9:30PM] In which I sit, observe, get...
So I was sitting in the terminal, waiting for my flight and I look out and see people on the ground, three of them, standing in a triangle under the wing of my plane. I saw their hands moving and it took a second to figure out what they were doing: Rock, Paper, Scissors! CAn you believe it? I don’t know what they were trying to decide, but they best 2 of 3’d and I saw two of the men...
August 2010
2 posts
[8/11/2010] Exploring the website for the dorm...
“The yellow door on the left side you granted safe access to the realm of fetuses …”
Yes, an obvious error on the part of whoever submitted a translation for that page… But seriously. This is what I’m getting into!
I’m looking forward to living there, meeting the many people I’ll be living with and just in general exploring the city and my surroundings!
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[8/7/2010] Before I go...
So I went ahead and set up a travel blog just for fun. I leave in about three weeks and in the past few days I’ve gotten stressed about it. Not that I’m having second thoughts, which I’ve had to express to my parents several times while venting, but it’s just such a big thing to me. The furthest I’ve ever been away from home was New Orleans and that was only for a...
