...just so you can keep everyone straight, I've made a CHARACTER CHART! :)

Alright, well because I know how much trouble my mom has keeping all the people that I talk about straight, I decided to make a character map of everyone!
This is Me! I live in Uniheim with Natalie and am friends with all of these people.
Natalie- My friend from UNI, roomie over here, and the girl that I spend every waking minute with! She is also friends with all of these people.
Lance- Another friend from UNI. He lives directly below me, but not for long. He is way homesick and has decided not to stay here for the semester. He'll be leaving in a couple weeks. He is friends with all of the exchange students.
Petra- This is my entree, or contact person. She is an Austrian student studying in Klagenfurt, and the girl that I am suppose to go to with questions.
Sibylle (Billy)- This is Natalie's entree. Her and Petra know one another and are friends.
Sebastian- The 19 year old kid I met on my first train ride from Vienna to Klagenfurt. He is currently doing his 8 month military service in his hometown of Hermagor (which is about 1.5 hours away from Klagenfurt). We've gone on skiing together in Hermagor and soon he'll be visiting us in Klagenfurt.
Alberto- 25 years old. From Italy. Lives in Uniheim (my dorm) and on my floor. He is friends with Conny and Markus.
Conny- 21 years old. From Austria. Lives on my floor in Uniheim. Is SUPER sweet...my favorite girl friend. Is friends with Alberto, Markus, and Clemmons.
Markus- 26 years old. From Austria, near Hermagor. Lives in Uniheim, 2 floors below me. Is friends with Conny and Alberto.
Clemmons- 22 years old. Lives directly across the hall from me. Super nice. Is friends with Conny. ...I also hang out with many of his other friends, but they aren't on this character chart!
Christian (aka Blabi)- Lives in Mozartheim (another dorm). LOVES CANDY AND FUTBOL! Is friends with Christoph, Christian, and Marcos.
Christian- Is 24 years old. Lives in Mozartheim. IS A TRIPLETT! Is extremely smart. Is friends with Blabi, Christoph, and Marcos.
Christoph- Lives in Mozartheim. Very very nice! Is friends with Blabi, Christian, and Marcos.
Marcos- 28 years old. An Exchange student from Nicaragua. Lives in Mozartheim. One of me and Natalie's best guy friends. Is friends with Blabi, Christian, Christoph, and all the other exchange students.
Misty- An exchange student from Kansas. Lives in Concordia (another dorm). Is friends with all of the other exchange students. She knew Gavin before coming here.
Gavin- An exchange student from Kansas. Lives in Concordia. Is friends with all the other exchange students, Blabi, and Christoph. He knew Misty before coming here.
Hope- An exchange student from Australia. Lives in Mozartheim. Is friends with all the other exchange students. Is just now learning how to ride a bike--Gavin is teaching her.
Audrey- An exchange student (kinda) from Ireland. Always a sweetheart. Is friends with all the other exchange students.
Al- 28 years old. Works at the rec-center. Is the man in charge of all of the exchange student trips. ...basically our tourguide. He is super funny and nice.

Alright, that's all for now. As soon as I make more friends I'll try to remember to add them to this!

MacDon's, The Missing Mars Bar, and My Class Schedule!

WELL—Wednesday night Natalie, Christoph, Christian (aka Blabi), Marcos, and I all went to a pub and watched some futbol. The Klagenfurt soccer coach ended up coming in and watched too. Which was pretty exciting because apparently he’s like a small town celebrity here. BY THE WAY...there was a yellow lab in the pub with someone...just wondering around. And that's a very normal occurence.

After the game we went to McDonalds and got a shake and some curly fries. A couple weird things about the MacDon’s here: They charge 20 cents for every pack of ketchup you get. And…they serve the curly fries with sour cream. I thought it sounded weird, but I tried it and decided I like it better than ketchup! And, there is shrimp on the menu! And, there is no such thing as “super sized” (not that I wanted to!). AND weirdest of all, when you walk in the first set of doors there is a place for your dog to eat—for free. I couldn’t even believe that.

Even though yesterday was Thursday…I’m having a hard time remembering everything I did but here is what I can think of… Natalie and I woke up around 10 and went to the University so Blabi could help us figure out what classes we are going to take. We ended up having to go talk to some advisor to ask a few questions and then when we were ready to sign up, we released we didn’t have a username and password—and we had no clue how to get one. So, anyway, we went home and made lunch and I asked around and eventually managed to get a name and password. Whew.

At 2:30, we went to the city center—which is called Heilegengeis Platz—to get a few things from Woolworths (the closest thing to a target…but really not even close) and from Spar (the closest thing to a Fareway). We met a friend from Kansas there—Gavin—and helped him search for a man-bag (because all guys seem to have one over here), but we had no luck. After all our shopping was done, we went over to Mozartheim to meet Blabi so that he could help us register for classes.

SO, starting this Monday, this is what my schedule will be:

Monday— 2:00-4:00 Topics in American Studies
5:30-7:00 English for Computing 1

Tuesday— 2:00-4:00 Topics in Australian Studies
5:30-7:00 Kickboxing

Wednesday— 8:30-10:00 Survey of English Linguistics
2:30-4:30 English for Business Administration 1

Thursday— 4:00-6:00 English for Business Administration 2
8:30-10:00 Ab-Power

Friday— Absolutely NOTHING!

Natalie also has a good schedule, but she doesn’t have class on Thursday or Friday! Talk about amazing! I’m pretty excited for all of these ones—especially my first class…it’s based on the Vietnam war, and we’ll be reading a book that I read my senior year of high school…so that shouldn’t be too bad. Oh yeah…all of these classes are taught in English—I wouldn’t pass a single one if they were in German.

ANYWAY, we left Blabi’s and went back home. We cooked supper and then watched some TV off our computer. Earlier that day I put a Mars bar (a milky way) in the freezer so I could have a snack after dinner. BUT, when I went to get it, it was gone! Evidently someone stole it—and believe me, I was MAD! I know, it was only a candy bar…but I had been looking forward to it all day long! So, I settled for some popcorn, ate that and went to bed.

This morning I woke up and went for my run. Remember how after my first run this month I could only go about ten minutes before being out of breath and walking?? WELL, today I ran for 45 minutes STRAIGHT, and then walked for 45 minutes afterwards. I’m not back in shape yet…but I’m definitely making some progress! Oh yeah, and I saw someone else running in shorts and t-shirt today!

After running, I came home and could 2 sausages for lunch (aka hotdogs) and now here I am! I hope you all have a great Leap Year Day!

Saturday Night til Today

Recap:

Saturday night a ton of us went out to Saluds (the Mexican restaurant) for happy hour. Everything was incredibly expensive, so Natalie and I both just got one drink and we sat around and talked to everyone. Then we moved on and went to our first disco. We had to pay 4 euro to go in, and you had to be 21. Apparently I look 21 because they didn’t even question me, but it definitely took a while for them to let Natalie in.

This is Marcos and I at Salud's.
This is inside the disco!
Anyway, we danced until 4:30 in the morning—and when we left the party was still going strong. I’m pretty sure it stayed open till 6am or so. When we were standing outside, an Austrian boy came up and asked where we were from. We told him and then he started SCREAMING at us. He was cussing about Bush (because EVERYONE hates him over here) and saying a lot of other stuff about America. So, instead of listening to him, we just walked away. The walk home was about thirty minutes long and on the way back we found an open gas station so we went in and picked up a frozen pizza. We came home, cooked it, talked to Toni and Christy on skype, and then finally around 6:30 am, we went to bed. It was a very long night.

On Sunday, Natalie and I were incredibly sore from our runs the day before, so we thought walking might make us feel a little bit better. So we ventured out in our shorts and t-shirts (once again, the only two people dressed like that) and walked for about 3 hours. We followed the lake and walked to the next town—Kupendorf. It was incredibly nice out and there were people all over the place! The skate park was packed, and the bike trails were covered with bikers and walkers.

Monday was a fairly bad day. We woke up at nine and had to go to the BIB (international office) to hand in a copy of our passport. Natalie asked Christina (one of the in charge ladies) if she could make a copy so she went to try and apparently couldn’t get it to work. She came back and started saying something in German. She knows we can’t speak German, so Natalie said “what?” And then Christina said “you guys need to speak German,” in an incredibly mean way. So after that, we left and walked over to the rec-center to sign up for classes. The line was INCREDIBLY LONG. We waited in line for over an hour and when we finally got to the window, found out that we needed proof that we are an exchange student—which we didn’t have. We had our Klagenfurt ID’s but apparently that wasn’t good enough.

So, we walked all the way back to our room got our print off and came back. Luckily the line was short enough by that time that we only had to wait another 15 minutes. We ended up signing up for Kickboxing and Ab Power…we’ll see how they go. Both of them are only once a week so it shouldn’t be too strenuous.

Monday night we went over to Mozartheim and hung out with a few friends. We didn't really do much...just played Wii and hung out. The boys insisted on walking us home...which is incredibly cute and they always do it.
The girl Natalie created for Wii--Janellizl.

And this is my girl--Os'madfer.

Tuesday was a GREAT DAY! I woke up around ten and went for a 45 minute run. Normally, people here don’t say hi or smile when they pass by one another, but today I decided to try it. I did it to every single person that I ran by (and there were quite a few) just to see what their reaction would be. All I’d say was “morgen!” (morning!) and everyone was very pleased to hear it. They all were a little startled at first, but then they’d smile and say the same thing back. It was a fun little experiment.
At 3:00 we went to the rec-center to pay Al—the tour guide—75 euro for our weekend trip to Slovenia. And then walked with Misty and Hope over to Mozartheim (another dorm). We met about 10 other people there and then took a bus to the city. We all got Kebobs. It is a Turkish food, but it’s pretty much exactly like a Gyro. It was very very good. After words we went to an Italian ice cream shop and got some ice cream. It was a great bonding experience.
Lance and his Kebob.

Natalie and I had to leave early because we were meeting a few other friends back at Mozartheim at 6. We got there and pretty much left right away. We went to the futball stadium to get tickets for the game that night. Girls always get in free, so that was a plus! Then we walked back to Mozartheim and just hung out and ate some popcorn before heading over. At 8 we left for the game. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN!!!! It was Klagenfurt vs. Graz. Both are Austrian teams, but Graz is much better than Klagenfurt so pretty much everyone was going for them. They ended up winning 2-0.
Delilah, Me and Nat at the game.Klagenfurt is white, Graz is yellow.This is Christian--the new boy I like :)

All of us after the game

Afterwards back at Mozartheim
Afterwards we went back to Mozartheim and ended up staying there until a little after 2. Then I went back to the dorms and hung out in Clemmons’ room. There were five of us hanging out in there (watching youtube videos) until 4 am. At that time Nat and I were exhausted so we both left and went to bed.

Today I woke up around 12. I made lunch and then got ready to go play soccer. We met at 2 at Mozartheim with a bunch of other international students. We ended up playing on an old hockey slab. It was incredibly fun. We played until 4 and then went to the grocery store, came home, ate pizza, and here I am! In about an hour we are going with a few friends to a pub to watch some more futbol.

Alright…time for me to go get ready. Love you all!

This is Graz's fan club. They chanted the entire time. I loved it!

...a few things from today

I just got back from a 3 hour run/walk around Klagenfurt. It was so beautiful outside--60 degrees! I feel so sorry for everyone in Iowa. I know you are all suffering this winter--I heard it's the 2nd worst one in all of Iowa's history...I'm not sorry I'm missing it.

I noticed that not a single person was wearing shorts and a tshirt. I was the ONLY person. Most people were even wearing their winter coats. I couldn't believe it. I was wearing less than half of what they had on and I was sweating like crazy. I was wondering if maybe it's illegal, or weird, to wear shorts before a certain day of the year. Like not before May or something. I dont know...but I sure got quite a few weird looks--I guess it could have just been that everyone was shocked at how white a humans legs could actually be.

Also, everyone's dogs are so well trained. They are rarely on leashes and they follow their owners so well. If I ever took Chuck on a walk without his leash I'd never see him again.

Another thing-- there are swans here! I'd never seen one until I got here but I see them all the time just floating up the stream here. Gosh I love it.

all about my GREAT week!

An update on my last week:

Monday: Well Monday, I pretty much did nothing. I was completely focused on planning out the trip for when everyone comes to Europe. “Everyone” is my beautiful sister, my charming little brother, Chandler Eley, Grant Robinson, Adam Bell, Chad Phares, and Jamie Olson. They are all coming on May 28th, and basically…IM THRILLED! I can’t wait for them to see this place.

Also, on Monday Natalie and I bought a plane ticket from Venice to Rome for March 13th. My Uncle Kris and Aunt Krista are going to Italy to visit their daughter (my cousin) that is also studying abroad this semester, so Natalie and I are going to visit them and help celebrate Megan’s 21st birthday! I can’t wait, it’s going to be an absolute blast!!!

Tuesday: After class on Tuesday, Natalie and I went to the lake and studied for our final exam in our Deutsch class. The weather was gorgeous. We sat on the dock and I rolled up my jeans (to try and minimize the pasty white shade my legs have become) and just enjoyed the lake. Afterwards we went home, made some dinner, and then showered and went over to Marcos’s dorm. We met up with two of his friends and then walked to a pub. There were about four soccer games on, so we watched those and then headed home around 12. I studied for about ten more minutes for my final, and then went to bed.

Wednesday: Wednesday was my final. It definitely wasn’t easy, but I felt I did okay on it. After class I got home and saw that I had a package! I went to the post office right away to see what it was. My jaw dropped when I opened it. It was a pillow made from Brad’s old jeans and flannel. Brad’s mom and sister made it for me. It is so perfect. Being here—thousands of miles away from home—makes me miss Brad all the more. Having this, something of his that I can hold onto every night, just makes me feel closer to him, or like I can feel him with me. There is an angel pin on it too—so now I really am sleeping with angels every night. I love it. It’s absolutely perfect.

After lunch, Natalie and I went into town. We went to H&M and then to the mall. I finally bought a pair of cowboy boots. For like 2 years now I’ve been looking for the most perfect pair, and I finally found them! I CANNOT WAIT to wear them. After shopping, Natalie and I went out to eat at a Mexican restaurant called Salud. We’d been craving Mexican—or anything that tasted somewhat normal—since we’d been here. We devoured a plate of nachos, and then took home about half of our meal for some leftovers. It was amazing. I tried to savor every single bite.

When we got home, Nat and I played dress up and took turns doing runway walks with all of our new clothes on. Clemmons happened to come in while we were all dressed up. It was quite embarrassing. We’re such girls.

After dress up I watched even more soccer. Clemmons, Hammes (a guy that lives diagonal from me), and I watched the Arsenal vs. Milan soccer game, and then half of another one. I love how everyone here is so obsessed with soccer. At home it’s all about football...but here soccer is what they live for—gosh it’s amazing.

Thursday: I got my final back in class. 97 out of 107. …so 91 percent. I’m okay with that. After class I went and got my student ID. My picture looks absolutely ridiculous. I got home and Lance (the other kid from UNI that’s here) and he said that he had mail for me. It got put in his box by mistake (for the second time now). I knew exactly what it was and ran downstairs to get it. I ran to the post office and got another package. This one was from my Mom and Dad. They sent me salad dressing (because it doesn’t exist here), grape jelly (because it doesn’t exist here), TWIX, a giant peanut butter cup, and a few other things that I feel like I can’t live without. It was amazing. I’ve already eaten half of the twix bars—and there were like 50.

Thursday night Marcos came over and we took a bus to the other side of town. We went to some Indian peoples' house and they cooked for us there. They made about four or five different things, and it was all SOOOO SPICY! My mouth was on fire. They said that they made some of the least spicy things they could just for us—but it was still the spiciest thing I have ever tasted in my entire life. I was sweating the entire time I ate it. I don’t know how they think that is enjoyable. We even ate with our fingers. They tried to teach us how to do it correctly, but I was absolutely horrible at it. I ended up with basically all my rice on my lap by the time I was done.

After eating all of us went to an Irish pub for an hour or so, came home and went to bed.

Friday: Today I went to class and got my certificate for finishing! That’s basically all we did in class. One of the other students, June (who is actually like 45 years old and from England) brought us a treat—flapjack. It’s pretty much like a no-bake cookie, but without the chocolate and peanut butter. Natalie was obsessed with it. An Indian kid also brought us a treat. But, after last nights experience, I couldn’t fully appreciate it. I didn’t feel like sweating again. It was alright, but I couldn’t finish it.

After class, Nat and I went grocery shopping and stocked our cupboards again. It seems like I got so much, but it was only 13 euro. I’ve definitely learned how to pinch my pennies.

We went to the bank and paid a couple bills, and then went to the rec center just to see what was there. Al (the guy that took us to Venice) works there, and he showed us around. He also talked to me for about 20 minutes about everything I have to do when everyone comes to visit me—where to go, how to do it, etc. He’s incredibly helpful.

Afterwards, we came home and bought another plane ticket for March 18th (for less than 20 euro!). We’ve decided that after we are done in Rome and Florence with my Aunt and Uncle, we are going to fly from Rome to London and stay for a few days traveling around London, Liverpool, and Manchester. From there we will fly/take a ferry over to Ireland and stay for a few days. I have two friends from UNI that are studying there, so we can stay with them. Also, Natalie has a friend over there, so we’ll pry end up staying there too. I’m pretty much thrilled beyond belief.

Around 4, Natalie and I took a nap, and didn’t wake up until 9:45. Since then we’ve just been sitting around and eating. Haha. Anyway, that was my week! We have all of next week off, so we are planning a trip to Budapest and Prague—we’ll see how that goes.
I hope all is well with everyone!

Love, Love, Love.


So Marcos does this all the time--just breaks out in song. I wanted to make sure I got at least one of his many songs on video.

My Ski Trip in Hermagor

Pretty much since we met Sebastian on the train, we’d been trying to find a day when we could all go skiing together, and well, yesterday was the day we went!

SO here is how it went:

I woke up at 4am—crazy, I know—and had to leave by 4:45 to catch our 5:00 bus. We made it to the bus stop a few minutes before five, only to realize that the first bus wasn’t actually coming until 5:52. So, my first thought—we’re screwed. We had to make it to the train station by 6:15 at the very latest to catch our 6:22 train. So, what did we do?? We walked. We walked for about forty minutes to the center of the city where we were able to catch a different bus that took us to the station.

Once we got to the station, we had to buy our ticket from a machine. Nat went to ask someone who could speak English if they would help us, and then we found our way to a bench to sit and wait for the next 30 or 40 minutes. Natalie left me for a little bit to go to the bathroom. As soon as she left, a 60 year old man came over to sit next to me. He said something to me, and as soon as he opened his mouth I could smell the alcohol on his breath. THEN, he began singing something to me in German. I was getting creeped out.

Soon Natalie was back—thank God. The guy then began to speak some English. He pulled out his wallet and showed us that he had no money. Then he proceeded to say that he has a place in Vienna, and we could stay there—for free—if we wanted. OH MY GOSH! Talk about scary! Natalie and I escaped and went upstairs and sat near a police guy to get away from him.

When it was time to board our train we tried to be as sneaky as possible to avoid having him sit next to us…and thank goodness it worked.

Anyway, after that fiasco, we finally arrived in Villach. Sebastian was at the top of the escalator to meet us and we all jumped in his tiny car. He drove us to Hermagor—his home town—and we stopped at Christof’s (Sebastian’s best friend) house. After sitting there for about 15 minutes, everyone was ready to go, and the four of us jumped into Sebastian’s car and drove about 15 minutes to Nassfeld—the ski resort in their village.

Once Nat and I had our gear rented, we were on our way up the mountain! Apparently the boys were expecting to have to teach us how to ski…so they were pleasantly surprised when they saw that we were alright skiers. But, obviously we didn’t even compare to how good they were. Sebastian said that they were pretty much born on skis, and I believe it. Both of them have won several contests, and we saw the trophies to prove it!

I was AMAZED at how good they were. Sebastian can literally ski down the entire mountain BACKWARDS! He tried to teach me, but to say the least, it didn’t go too well. At the end of the day I had fell a total of five times—with one of them being a face plant, and two others requiring me to spend a couple minutes putting my skis back on.

BUT, all in all it was a great day! We left Nassfeld around 3:45. Sebastian drove us to the train station in Hermagor because he had to work at 5 and wouldn’t have time to drive us all the way back to Villach. We got our tickets and then spent the next hour staying warm in a pub across the street.
We got on our bus, and I fell asleep almost instantly, I was sooo tired! After an hour we had to switch trains somewhere along the way, and then still had about a 15 minute ride to Klagenfurt. We got off and then took the first bus we thought would take us back to our dorm—but, surprise, surprise, it didn’t. We ended up on the completely opposite side of town. SO we got back on the bus and headed to the city where we got on the right bus and made it safe and sound back to our dorm around 8 pm.

By this time, I was STARVING. I took a shower and made supper and then was off to bed. I woke up this morning completely bruised up. But, all is good, and I am sooo happy that I got to spend yesterday skiing with Natalie and Sebastian—it was sooo much fun!

Here are a few pics from yesterday:


Right before we headed down...Natalie, Sebastian, Me, and Christof.

After a while--at like 10:30--the boys were ready for a beer. So this us in a pub at the top of the mountain.


The boys and their beer. Christof, Marcus (another friend who is a ski coach there), and Sebastian.

Me and Nat on the mountain.


A gorgeous view that I couldnt pass up.

Sebastian, Me, and Nat. This was taken by an automatic camera on the mountain.

This is Sebastian spinning in circles on his skis down the mountain. Pretty impressive if you ask me. Ignore my voice in this video. I sound so dumb.

After a short lesson, I tried to do the same thing.. ...gosh this is sooo embarrassing!

And here is another video of me trying to do the same thing. I'm only adding this so you can hear Sebastian's voice...it's soo cute!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

Alright, well, I’ve had an amazing past two days. Valentine’s Day isn’t that big of a deal here, but this year they had a huge party at the University. BUT—I’m pretty sure the best part of my day was getting a Valentine’s Day card from my best friend in the whole wide world. (thanks Toni). Then, a little later Lance gave me a Valentine that was mistakenly put in his mailbox. That one was from my Grandma—thanks!

Then, after a long 4 and a half hours of class, I got home and got dressed and ready to go out to eat with Natalie and our two friends Connie and Billy. We went to an Austrian restaurant and I ended up getting Weiner schnitzel—which is basically just like a breaded pork tenderloin, but for some reason it’s super popular over here. Connie got a salad, and there were potatoes on it! And apparently that’s pretty normal here. I tasted it and LOVED it.

Then we went back home and I showered again (because I already smelled like cigarette smoke from the restaurant). Then about 5 or 6 people came over and hung out before heading over the V-day party.

We didn’t go to the party until about 11:30. It was at the main university building…just across the street from my dorm. It was soooo much fun! First of all, there were probably 1000 people there (I might be exaggerating a bit…but it was PACKED) and every single guy there was GORGEOUS. There were also 5 bars set up there. FIVE! I couldn’t even believe it. The people here are like alcoholics.

Anyway, we stayed there until 3 or so…and I don’t think it got over until about 5 am. Then, the next morning I had to be awake and at my class by 9am. Talk about miserable. I don’t think I learned a single new word in class today…I couldn’t focus at all. There were only 7 of us in class so we decided to cut class a bit short and go out for dinner. That was pretty fun! We went to the UNI Pizzeria. Two of the ladies that I went with ordered pumpkin soup. It was like warm spicy pumpkin soup with whipped cream on top. WEIRD.

Anyway, I got home around 1:30 and then slept until 5:30—which was definitely well needed. Natalie and I made plans to go skiing with Sebastian tomorrow and we have to take a bus that will take us to the train station at 5am! So, basically I need to go to bed right now!

….oh and I forgot to mention, I got a flower from a boy!

Me, Natalie, Billy, and Connie at the Austrian restaurant.

Marcos and I in my room

Natlie, Hope(the australian girl), Audrey (the Irish girl), and me. ...and markus is to the far right but you cant see him very well.

Connie Me and Nat

At the UNI Pizzeria.

Boring Blog.

I realize I haven’t blogged in forever, so updating you might take some time…but I’ll try to keep it as short as possible! On the Friday before Venice, I hung out with Clarence—but learned that his name is actually Clemmons! Haha, so I called him by the wrong name several times before he—or anyone else—corrected me. That’s embarrassing. I have discovered that Clemmons makes tons of weird facial expressions at the most unnecessary times…it’s quite entertaining, but it took a while to get used to. Anyway, we just hung out in his room with four or five of his friends.

After a while, I got bored and went to see what Markus (I used to spell it Marcus, but now learned the correct spelling) was up to. I ended up hanging out with Markus until 3:00 am (and I had to be up by 8 the next day!). I discovered that he is almost identical to one of my really good friends in high school, Nathaniel Hansen. Their personalities are SOOO similar. And, they like all the same bands, and even have the same body type and hair. I love him to death!

Alright, anyways…I didn’t really do anything Sunday night after Venice.

On Monday night though, I ended up hanging out with Clemmons, Markus, and a bunch of other people. It was soo fun. And once again, we stayed up till 3 am. Pretty Ridiculous.

Today, class went by super slow. For lunch I ate eggs once again. Afterwards, Natalie and I went to our friend Marcos’s (the Nicaraguan) and he made us hot chocolate—with notella—and french-fries. And now I’m back in the room, getting ready to make dinner—peanut butter toast. Woohoo.

Alright, sorry for such a quick and dirty update. Tomorrow’s will be better :)

Last of the Venice pics

THE TINY STREETS!

Al (the tour guide) nat me and lance.

Just hanging out at night. That is Marcos on the pole--I LOVE him!

The church that a 20 year old architect built.

GROSS