I have come to the conclusion that the German name for Switzerland is much more concise and user-friendly; plus it sounds so cool--die Schweiz! I live in die Schweiz! I wish I knew how to say that whole sentence in German. Alas, that's why I probably didn't pass that German test today... Actually it had nothing to do with that kind of vocabulary... But still. In any case, that's why I'm not a fluent German speaker, if you hadn't already made that assumption. Okay, this paragraph needs to end.
So not too much has been happening over here. I went and saw Ivan Cooper speak last night, he's an old friend of Professor Matthews. He helped to organize a number of nonviolent marches in Northern Ireland demanding equal rights for Catholics and Protestants, including the march on Bloody Sunday--he was there. Mr. Cooper was a phenomenal speaker--by far the best we've had so far. So that was quite nice and refreshing.
There were many quizzes this week, one in every class minus English. I really didn't do very well on any of them, so I've decided that I need to use this weekend to redeem myself. Hence, I've been studying for the last few hours even though it's Friday night--but let's be honest, what else would I be doing on a Friday night? Sleeping? That's what I thought. Read a number of sources on Flannery O'Connor for my paper that's due next Thursday; I need a draft of that by Sunday night...
Oma just called a bit ago. That made my day! I love hearing from people. I leave for Barcelona with Alyssa, Alyssa, Alauna, and Marcel on Thursday morning, early, early. So that's exciting, but I'm not quite excited yet. Although I know I will be. I'm going to the airport tomorrow to have my ticket changed for my flight from Zurich to New York. I need, need, need to get that out of the way. Deniz is going to go with me, and then we might get Turkish food afterwards; remains to be seen. And then there's Dracula tomorrow night up at the school (well it's tonight too), and I'm going to go see that with Katie, Keely, and Deniz. Then Sunday is back to the books, and then Alauna's hosting a fondue party up at North Campus with an exclusive viewing of Finding Nemo, so I think I'll be attending that as long as I can manage to complete this paper, which I think I will be able to. I have all the information, I have my outline, I just need to sit down and write it all down. It's all in my head, I swear. And then I'll be home four weeks from tomorrow.
Oh, and it's back to rain outside. It's quite nice, actually--I love the sound of it. Although I went into downtown this afternoon, and I probably shouldn't have, as it started sprinkling by the time I got into about the center of town, then I couldn't remember where the ATM I needed to use is located. I decided to turn back and use the ATM tomorrow morning, since I knew that it was going to be pouring by the time I got back up to Girasole. And indeed it was--my clothes were quite soaked. And I know, I should have taken my umbrella--but I was out jogging and was not convinced that it was going to rain, since it had been threatening all day, but nothing had happened. I also went grocery shopping earlier today. I went fruit-crazy; I bought six tomatoes, a 2kg bag of clementines, a cucumber... in addition to the nine apples I already had on my counter. I think that's a lot of fruit for me to consume before it goes bad. I've eaten four clementines since I got back. And I made dinner for myself tonight rather than going up to North Campus and partaking in yet another dissatisfying meal of potatoes and pasta. I bought itty bitty vegetarian spring rolls, which were pretty all right; I don't think I baked them long enough. Better luck next time.
Hope everyone's having a happy Friday. Smile, Ari
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