Hands and Knees100

Oh, English class--today, we really did accomplish close to nothing. I think this is as close to a conversational class as I've ever been in; maybe even more so than when I was taking Conversational Spanish. Today Professor Matthews told us all about how he had proposed, at one point, to have a class called "Hands and Knees100." The class would consist of crawling around looking for various insects and... then... well, this is where I got confused. Learning to communicate with their simplicity? Translating their simple elegance into English? I don't know. In other news, I turned in my The Big Lebowski paper today.

Today was almost stressful, but that's only because that I wasn't really prepared for it, but I still wasn't actually stressed out at any point. Maybe a little disappointed with myself, but in a very aloof sense.

I went to yoga this morning with Alauna (we were two of the three attendees at the 8:30am class). It was wonderful! Perfect for the morning, not quite so tough as the last couple of days have been, but I'm starting to get better at it again. Thank goodness. After class, Alauna and I went to change into school clothes, since we have a class immediately following. When we went up the stairs to the exit, we realized that we had been locked into the gym. Natalie didn't realize that we were still down below in the locker room, and she accidentally locked us in. We proceeded to bang and knock on the doors for a solid fifteen minutes before we were finally rescued by a rather bewildered looking man from the Bursar's office. Even though it was passing time (between classes) and there were plenty of people about, no one would recognize us in our time of need. It was a little bit strange to be encased like that. But it was also highly entertaining. Then we went onto to Western Civ and life as usual. Today we discussed barbarians and time of Charlemagne. Then I had a couple hours beween classes, so I finished my English paper and did my math homework, then went onto math and then English.

I went up to dinner at 6pm, and met with the girls that I'm going to Barcelona with. I ended up staying there and chatting until almost 8pm--we definitely strayed from our original topic... I've just about convinced EVERYONE that they need to come and visit me, and it sounds like they're all going to do their best to make trips out to to see me. :-) Hooray! So that made me happy. And it sounds like my weekends from here on out are going to be quite busy (with the exception of maybe this weekend, during which I'll actually need to work). Here's a plan for the next few weekends of my life:

This weekend, Saturday: crepes for dinner with people not attending Greek Night, Sunday: cookie and milk night with Sicily friends
Next weekend, go to Milan to see the Last Supper, do some random, cheesy Christmas shopping, Sunday: hike San Salvatore with Katie and Keely
Thanksgiving weekend, BARCELONA!
First weekend in December, Neuchatel to visit Bardia (if that works out)
Second weekend in December, Zurich for the Christmas Bazaar
Third weekend in December, head home!!

And somewhere in there, of course, I'll have to do write my Flannery O'Connor paper, a paper for math class, a case study for Marketing, etc. etc. You get the idea. Lots of quizzes next week, come to think of it. And sadly much German vocabulary on a quiz tomorrow. I'm not very good at German, at least so far.

All right, more fascinating tales from the Life of Ari coming soon. I know you can't wait for more... Just kidding... I might go to the grocery store tomorrow. I'll make sure to detail every movement of that adventure.

I miss you dear family and friends. Smile, Ari :-)