Oh Glorious Travel

Hello there!

I'm quite pumped at the moment because I just found a flight to Oslo for just 0.01 Euros! I mean, once you add taxes and fees it's up to 50 euros, but still! That's ridiculous! You can't find fares that cheap anywhere in the US. So I'm thinking maybe I'll check out Oslo sometime; then again, maybe I'll check out Stockholm. They both have ridiculously cheap flights. Or I could go to Dublin for 20 Euros roundtrip (that's without taxes/fees, but still cheap you must admit). Isn't that crazy? I could travel all over the place!!

I went to my first Academic Travel meeting for Sicily today, and I'm super-excited about it. I am a tad bit worried that I didn't bring enough summer clothes with me, as it's supposed to be super-hot there. I'm hoping things are going to start cooling off here in Lugano; it was 90 degrees again today, and really, really humid. I was just dripping with sweat all day; it was quite gross. Right now my weather report at the bottom of the screen is informing me that there are supposed to be thunderstorms tomorrow, but still in the mid-70s. So far it has predicted everyday this week that it would be mid-70s and it has yet to go under the mid-80s.

Anyway, I definitely need to jump on the traveling bandwagon and figure things out. Munich seems to be the most expensive/difficult place for me to get to at this point. I did finally figure out when I can go and spend a few days of quality time there. I'm going to be in Sicily from October 15 through October 25, but then I'll be free until classes start again on October 30. So I could spend a good three or four nights there; that's really the most I think I'll have a chance to get away. I just found out that we actually only have one day off for Thanksgiving... so it would still be a squeeze. But I'm super-excited about how easy it sounds like it'll be for me to travel around! I really want to go to Scandinavia; I think that would be a lot fun. Cold is sounding very appealing right now, even though I generally try to avoid it at all costs.

Not too much exciting today; I had German and Marketing. Again, I LOVE my Marketing class. So glad I'm taking it. I think I'm going to try and take a couple more business classes next semester because Professor Adams is amazing. I can always take my core/basic classes back at UPS.

OH MY GOODNESS. I can't believe I almost forgot to mention the Club Fair. Ah well, I'll get there in a second. I went to the post office today and mailed my first package for a whopping 18 francs; I'm pretty sure the thing didn't weigh any more than 2kg. It had to have weighed less. I was rewarded with an excellent sense of accomplishment in any case. After that I went to my Academic Travel meeting with Professor Cappiello, he's Italian, and he's really nice. I'm so, so, so looking forward to Sicily! I think it's going to be amazing!

So after Academic Travel, I had some time to kill, so I went to the library and did my reading for Western Civilization. It's a pretty dry read; I miss Palmer... (::tear::) I feel he was so under-appreciated. I wish I had Palmer with me now. Alas. And after Academic Travel, I went to the Club Fair, and my goodness, what a time it was.

I don't know how it happened, but that overzealous, go-getter, Student-Council indoctrinated part of me went nuts; it has obviously been starving since the end of my ASB Presidential days. I signed up for not one. Not two. Not three. BUT FIVE CLUBS (at least that I can remember, for some reason I feel the official number was six...). Included among them: Cooking Club, Smart Car Rally, Latin Club (a fusion of salsa dance and fundraising...), Swim Club, and oh, wait for it, wait for it, Capoeira. Please, someone save me from myself. I signed up for a BRAZILIAN MARTIAL ARTS CLUB. What? What? What has Ari done? Yes, let's all have a laugh now. Go look it up in wikipedia. And Swim Club? Who am I kidding? I've never swum laps up and down a pool before. Oh sigh. I swear peer pressure was my motivation at least for a few of those... I won't say which, right now. Oh and the basketball team wouldn't have me after I told them how experience I am, what with all the one-armed-girl-guarding that I've done. Just in case you were wondering. Oh my goodness, I think I've lost of my mind. Why didn't I just go out for Student Assembly and just left it at that?

And I was also pleasantly surprised to find out that Baba and Angi are coming to visit! All right, I have to go now and finish my math homework, which turned out to be slightly more complicated than expected... but more soon, I promise. And I'm going to try and load a couple more photos, too.

Smile!