Whatever It Takes

My barf reflex was realy strong this morning... but anyway...

Oh my goodness! There is so much to tell! ...But I don't know if I want to tell. Maybe there really isn't that much to tell. I'm just excited, but it's getting to the point where the excitedness turns into nervousness. First I'll tell you about my day yesterday.

I went to German at 10am and there was this German guy there named Kalli who was talking about studying abroad and the "info session" which was happening later that day, and then the rest of the class was typical. Then I went to the Union where I learned about going overseas for four weeks to volunteer this summer through a program called International Student Volunteers (ISV). That definitely peaked my interest. Then I ate lunch with Gideon, Jonathan, and Dan. After lunch I went to Psych where we watched a movie and then got out an hour early. I then went to the math lab and got something about my homework clarified. Then I had an hour to kill before 4pm and so I went to the Fishbowl and looked up stuff about ISV and checked my email incessantly for an hour. When 3:50 rolled around, I headed up to the 3rd floor (or second... it's weird) of Mason Hall where I randomly ran into Steve Dittenber and we talked for a while. And then I went to the meeting about study abroad in Germany, which really definitely peaked my interest. Afterwards, and after speaking to Kalli for a moment, I went out to the Diag and called Ross to tell him about all the news (which most of you do not know yet). So what's the news, you ask?

Well, I am currently considering doing a study abroad in Germany within the next two years. The funny thing is, I really don't know why I even ended up deciding to go to that meeting... I never before had seriously thought about studying abroad, especially for a whole year or even a semester. I think it all began when Steph tricked me into going to the OIP fair when she said there would be free post-its (I guess I wasn't really tricked because there were free post-its) and it escalated from there. But it's all good. Also, I have decided on a major... and of course it is German. Don't even think about asking me what I'm going to do with a German major because frankly I don't care and I'm not thinking that far ahead. Plus, I might do a double major anyway or a major and a minor or something.

Today was a good day. I had a good time with Alecia at the football game and I was harassed for not selling my Penn State tickets to relatives. I got to hang out with Ross this afternoon and that was also fun. Then Alecia and I watched Notting Hill after the game. That's pretty much all except for the fact that my calc professor assigned homework over fall break. I was (and still am) upset about that. I actually have a lot to do over fall break: linguistics homework, German paper, read a German book (Olli Aus Ossiland), calc homework, and a reading for psych. Arg! It's supposed to be a break! Gar! I guess it's not a ton, but it's still quite a bit.