day 43

day 43? sunday

i havn't posted blog in a while so i'm gonna write one up now even though not much has happened.

yesterday the group went to neuschwanstien and i stayed back i had the entire appartment to my self. so swept out my room and swep the kitchen and stuff. not much else intresting happened i was hopeing to go to a concert but i had no idea were it was and couldn't find it all i found was a rock concert like thing on the bridge. so i went to the supermarkt and get todays breakfast (apple strudel coffee cake) and on the way there i saw micheal james andrea and maggie. i thought great the entire central group will be here tonight its gonna be loud.when i got back they were making salad and watching movies on a laptop last night was actually the quitest night second to that night that every body was gone and my room mate never came back (i was the only one on the floor all night.)

i woke up this morning and talked to thomas mustafa and james about neuschwanstien. their experience was allot like mine. the castle was a museum and they just shoved you thoughthe only thing really worth seeing was the landscape around the castles. i think my trip was better because i had such a great view of neuschwanstien from the othere castle. then i ate lunch (rice with beef boulioun and a mostly stale roll) and now i'm typing this and i have a soar throat. i have to write a text on a famous american person (again) but i forgot to look up the info (again) so i'm gonna fake my way through george washington as best i can (or thomas edison) i don't plan to do much today i have less than 3 weeks before i go to vienna and get stressed out again. and on top of that i'm running out of vitamins i've been rationing them so i will have 5 left before i go to vienna at this point i don't want to buy a new bottle because it would only add weight to my luggage.

since i have nothing better to talk about i'm gonna go over the plan for getting to austria. in 2 weeks i'm gonna start trying to get rid of my bike (unless the group gets a car and they are willing to transport my bike for next to nothing) i might sell it at the bike shop or to one of the othere central students who is willing to lug it to austria. then i will start packing i will leave my shorts and stuff that i really don't need for winter here in germany or ship it home depending on the cost of shiping (probabaly not worth it). i will wear most of my winter cloting onto the plane and take it off if nessissary. i doubt they will be to conserned with the weight of the carry on since it is a city to city plane and it will be empty anyway. my carry on will be my laptop bag and my messenger bag will go in my luggage. the packing order for this trip is not that impportant. i jusy have to make sure the weights are about right. which will be hard to do since we don't have a scale. i expect my luggage to go slightly over the 45 lb limit but there is not much i can do about that. i'm not sure how we plan to get to nurnburg airport if they will make us go there our selves or if they will drive us or if we all go on the train together i'm not sure. but i expect that we will all be on the same plane so ruth will likley take care of all the paper work for us. then we will wait for a while (or rush like crazy) get on a plane and take off. the flight should take less than an hour or two so it will not be to boring. when we arrive we will all get luggage at the baggage claim together and some one will lose there luggage and ruth will have to sort that out with the airport and she will tell us all to go to our dorms. i'm not sure if she will give us money for the cabs or if she can pay in advance or what but we will take a taxi to our dorms and there i will be. i should have an internet connection and i should be there by late after noon so i'll try to get online to post how it went. then i will have to find out how to survive in vienna. (locate grocerie stores, classes, get train card, register with district official + other stuff i need to live ect....)

i found out that the AC/DC converter for my laptop get hotter here than in america and makes a great heating pad. i put it on my lower back and it works great.

i've decided to start work on my resume as soon as i can get online to find out the appropriate formate stuff. i remember i had a hard time with it before because its not a set form. i'm not sure how i will do this time.

one of the things i don't like about europe is that there are so many people every were even in this small town. in america i can always find a hill outside to sit on and just be alone but the only place to be alone here is in a room. in pella i had the hill bye green lot and the golf course. in farmington i had the park by the water tower and the mountain bike trail. here i have the small court yard on the side of the castle but there are often people there.

another thing i don't like about europe is the cost of meat it is to high. and there doesn't seem to be a code for electrical wiring these places are wired worse than the house in crestwood. on the other hand i do like the architecture of most of the buildings some of them are painful to look at but most of them look nice.

i only need the 14.5 credits next semester which means i may be able to make a violin . however i will almost certainly have a room mate and i doubt he would like me working with sharp tools and getting saw dust all over his carpet. so i am thinking of asking the art profesors if i could do an independant study in conjuction with the music department and use the shop in the basement of lubbers. the problem is that i will only be able to use it on tuesday and thursday mornings and would not be able to get in in the evenings and weekends so i am thinking of making the ribs and othere small hand carved stuff in my room and the larger messier louder things in the art shop. then whn i have the parts done making the whole thing in the art shop or in my room depending on how late it is in the semester. not sure if i'm gonna laquar it or not. i think the laquar only subtracts from the sound but it also keeps the wood safe. i'll consider that next semester.

i'm thinking of pushing up the date of leaving for america to the 18th or 19th instead of the 24th so i will have less of an over lap but with 17-18 days of overlap i'm not sure how early i can leave vienna and still get credit. the exact middle is 23rd but thats a wendsday and i will need a week end to recouperate so i can either leave two weeks early from vienna or be two weeks late for central. i think it would be best to leave vienna earlier and get to my philosphy classes. since my grades here in vienna don't really matter in the grand skeem of things but i need to keep my philosophy gpa high enough to graduate. so i'll ask ruth and dad about that tomarrow and talk to the group about when they are leaving.