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Well, this is my first entry, and just to give credit where credit is due, I totally stole the idea to do one of these blogs from Jessica. Just, so everyone knows.
Well, today is All Saints Day, which in Germany is a national holiday, so I didn't have school today, which was kinda cool. However, I don't usually have classes on Friday either, so now I have a 4 day weekend. This, to any other person would be like the best thing ever, but not to me. Mainly because next week I have a presentation that is due, and I am already freaking out about it. No, if you're wondering, it does not have to be in German (I asked if I could do it in English) but it does have to be about 20-25 minutes and it's about a topic that I have no prior information on. Therefore, I am already freaking out, and it's still a week away.
I love being here! Germany is amazing, and it, so far, has been one of the most amazing experiences of my life. I have only one complaint, the difficulties I am having as far as understanding goes in my classes. I feel that it should be better by now, and I'm not sure why it's not. Like I guess I do understand most of what's going on, but I can't "actively" participate in class because by the time I formulate an answer to the question, which was asked, someone else has answered with a far better and more descriptive answer than I could ever have given in German right now. And it's not only in my history classes, my class on Schiller is the same. I understand the material in and of itself, but as far as analyzing goes, I suck at that in English so why did I think it would be ok in German? On Tuesday, the professor said that maybe I should look into getting an English version, which, as I know Issac similiarly thought, was mildly offensive since we DO indeed know what's going on. Further, nobody in class was participating, well not like the prof wanted anyways, and so I think that he should have called them out on it too.....idk. Anyways, so that is my constant, lingering issue, I feel left behind. Sometimes I think that we, as Americans, screw our children over by not forcing things to happen early in life, such as learning a foreign language, and then whilst in College they pick one up, but Europe is much better educated when it comes to foreign languages that it's NO CONTEST!!! Hmm....hopefully within the next week it will get better, and I can feel more "fluent".
Mom called me yesterday (as she does every day) and told me that she officially booked her flight to Germany in March! WOW!! I'm really excited. Like I kinda just want it to be March NOW!! I really want to show her around and all of that jazz. I hope that she won't chicken-out and not come; the would really irritate me if she did that. Though, she already said that she doesn't want to remain in Germany the whole time she's here, but I don't think she realizes that, although Europe is small and the countries are the size of states, it's not really cheap to just go from nation to nation. Like, Jessica had to pay like 120 Euros to go to France, and that was quite expensive, think about having to pay for 3 adults to go, it would be worse! So I told mom to let me know where she wants to go that way I can book something on German Wings or something so that maybe we can get it cheap because it's so far in advance.
I don't know where I want to go this weekend, but I more than likely will be going alone. I'm thinking about going to Cologne, but I'm not sure if I want to go there. I mean it's nice and all, but I just don't know if I want to go that far by myself. I'll ask Jessica, but she's got her friend Amanda here, so I assume that they'll want to go someplace together. Isaac might want to go, I'll ask.
Friday will more than likely be reserved for completing my presentation for "Die Amerikanische Revolution", which as stated above, is due on Wed. I have to upload it to this thing called readerplus so that the other people in my class can read my crap....OMG!! I can't even think about it, I'm FREAKIN OUT!
I bought Britney's new album, and for all of you who now are judging me, don't until you listen to it. It's not phenomenal or anything, but it's pretty good. Listen, then judge.
Well, I'm gonna go work some more on the Revolution, and then maybe some more one the Prussia presentation for next Thurs.
Tschüss!!
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