My Prince Has Arrived!

Okay, it's only 2:30, but since the great excitement of my day has already come and gone, I figure it's high-time for me to write my blog entry of the day. Got up plenty early today, went to German class at 8:30am, then Marketing. I did okay on my Marketing quiz, nothing special, but from the sounds of it, I did pretty all right compared to the rest of the class. Sounds like Professor Adams was pretty disappointed with the overal turnout. So that was okay. I went to the Writing Center and talked to Ms. Bell about event ideas, then worked on getting together more undergraduate journals. She liked two of my ideas a lot: 1) have a student event where they get to decorate the writing center, and 2) midterm study sessions. I had a few other ideas, but she didn't really mention them, so, oh well. Maybe some other time they'll come in handy. Having Academic Travel in just three weeks sort of limits us for the time being.

After the Writing Center I had lunch--today there was chicken breast with french fries and broccoli, and salad of course. Then I went and checked my mail, and guess what had arrived! Yup, you guessed it, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Season Three on DVD! So that's good news. Now I have entertainment any time, I don't have to watch a whole movie necessarily. I walked back down the hill, took out the trash and washed my dishes. And now I'm here, typing away, yet again. There's yoga today at 4:00pm, but I'm sort of intimidated because Natalie (our usual instructor) won't be there, her friend from Taiwan is going to be doing a Power Yoga session, which sounds a little intense. Or just like I could definitely end up making a fool of myself. Maybe I won't be the only one. It also sounds like the entire girls soccer team is going to be there today for conditioning since it's pouring outside again, and they don't want to practice outside. That means I also need to get there early so I don't end up on the gym floor again. Wish I could figure out where to buy a yoga mat.

I have a more average amount of homework this evening--nothing is really due tomorrow... But there is stuff due later this week that I need to get started. I have a compare/contrast essay on two essays of my choice due Thursday, some reading for Western Civ and some math homework. My plan for the rest of the day will probably be to make presentation notes here, get dressed for yoga and head up the hill with my Western Civ book, do Western Civ reading until dinnertime, have dinner, then back down the hill and write my essay. Just in case you were curious as to what the rest of my day might be like. I'm sure there won't be too much deviation, unless procrastination sets in. I had two missed phonecalls on my phone today, and I didn't recognize the number. Does anyone know what country code +44 is from? I think that's what it was from, I'd have to check again. I wonder if it was the Smart Car Rental place calling since Keely gave them my cellphone number, since she didn't know hers...

It's raining very hard right now, which makes the prospect of walking back up the hill, not very attractive. It's also very difficult to find the right temperature, you know? Because if I'm just walking around or in class I'm rather cold, but when I'm walking up the hill I'm hot, hot, hot. Not good news at all. Oh yeah, and I'm not very good at German. I'm feeling like the language dunce that I was when I started taking Spanish--I hate that. I need to get better at German, gah. I really want to take a conversational Spanish class again sometime, that was good. Deniz and I still need to buy our train tickets to Florence. We should get on that. Her brother is coming to visit her tomorrow, before he starts his three-week military service in Turkey, so that he can keep his citizenship. They're going to go Milan, I think.

This rain definitely makes me think of Seattle. And I still need to buy an umbrella. I keep forgetting because whenever I go shopping it's not raining. It's just days like today... I don't even know what happened to my original umbrella. It's in my room somewhere. My deepest apologies, Soraya, I know you gave me that umbrella to borrow, and I'm afraid it's done for. Remember that Swiss monsoon that happened during my first week here? It was so battered by the wind, well, it doesn't do me much good any more. It just sort of hangs limply around my head, and I get a lot of pitying looks.

Miss you guys! More soon... as always...