A quick update… but an update none the less!
Hallo,
let’s see. What has happened recently…
- I sat in front of my computer and typed my heart out.
- I finished nearly all of my essays (one to go… ONE TO GO! and i think i have my research question. I want this done by Friday. 20 pages? Piece of cake…maybe).
- I have been spending way too much money. I don’t know how it happens. It’s all on groceries! Well, I guess there are a lot worse things to spend money on than organic, vegan, as-ethical-as-possible fair =)
- Went to a cabin in the Black Forest with my floor-mates (and my laptop. Gosh he’s so clingy! haha!) It was so fun! We had to take a train, then a bus, then “hike” for about 45 minutes through the snow at night to get there, and you could see the stars so clearly- beautiful. Then the first night there we just sat around and they drank and I listened patiently (nah, just kidding. It was very fun for me too!) and I felt very lucky because I got to get to know a few of them better because I wasn’t stuck in my room typing. The next day we went on a super long hike! Like…. 3 and a half hours! In the snow! It was very beautiful but… I think I should stop trying athletic things, hahah. Then I worked a bit on some essays and then we made pizza and they gave me so much of the pizza (as in, it was set aside to be vegan- very much appreciated =) ) and then they drank drank drank and I helped refill their shots for a drinking game and everybody was so into it and having so much fun! And then there was some sort of dancing (hilarious! HILARIOUS! Oh it is great being able to remember everything that went on- why drink at all???) And then the next day (the Sunday) we came back.
- Finally sent in 2 of my essays to my prof for one class- i wasn’t sure they were write so I e-mailed him saying to let me know if I should change anything. Normally, no matter how much thought and effort I clearly put into my e-mails, I get a one “word” response: “OK”. That’s it. OK. Even if I ask questions that cannot be answered by 2 letters shoved together, that is what I get. Anyway, this time he actually wrote me a real response ! And it was completely positive too! No re-writing of essays for me, no thanks! Woo hoo!
- Now I am working on that last essay. Ugh it is such a drag. Must. Get . Finished.
- What else…
- 21st birthday happened the other day… it was so wonderful. Actually one of the best I can remember having. At midnight, right when it turned to the 27th, I heard this knock on my door, opened the door and there where a whole bunch of my floor-mates! They sang me a German birthday song that I really want to learn, hopefully with guitar, too. I was so floored! AND two of my floor-mates (including the emo boy who loves me. Still. Yeesh! and my wonderful friend, Lena) baked me a vegan carrot cake! I just couldn’t believe it! Because they say that my food is “Kahninchen Futter” (bunny food!). They even had a fresh carrot on the top. Then we all sat in the commons room and had carrot cake, which was very delicious. I could not believe it =) It was just so nice.
- Then… the next day…. or, later that day, actually… I went to the Stühlinger market and got some cheap apples and then went to my grammar prof’s office hours for help. Thennnnn… I came back home and studied a bit and then Alicia and my neighbour, Nils, and I made vegan French toast and it was really really good! I am glad to have impressed! AND, this is amazing- Alicia’s birthday gift to me is that she is going to be vegan for a month! I am so happy! That’s gonna save some animals for sure =) I plan on making her a recipe book to help her out. I just couldn’t believe it- so happy!
- The next morning, I failed my grammar test (actually, I don’t know that I did. It was just way too unreasonably difficult). And that niiiight we went to a club/bar called Kagan to celebrate my birthday, but I think that a movie night would’ve been just as good, if not better, because it wouldn’t have been smoky. Gross. Oh well, I think everyone had fun. But I was kind of sad at first because my friend was being really inappropriate that day, exceptionally so, and I just don’t have the patience for that sort of thing- especially on my birthday. So, I ranted to Lena and I think I will have to set some things a little bit more clearly. I mean, really, some things are just not acceptable.
… (…what the heck is she talking about????)
- Oh i forgot. There was a party at my building last last week and it was kinda boring but it was summer themed- something I will have to start thinking more about! As in… what am I actually going to do for 4 months around here?
- And. I am blenderless once again- I think I broke it and keep buying the owner chocolate to say sorry and offering to get a replacement, but she is going to see what the company says about the warranty. We shall see… I just miss my smoothies. And I wanted to make lots of other stuff! Ah well…
- I ordered my eco-friendly sweatshop free bikini! Mum will bring it with her when she visits in… a couple of weeks. Wow that’s fast.! Freue mich schon!
- I received my pretty (not necessarily warm… but spring will come soon enough) gloves in the mail from Dad. They are very very nice!
Okay, i am tired and am going to call it a night!
Gute Nacht,
emma
