day 25

day 24
not much happened today either. I researched the trip i plan to make to munich next week i plan to spend two nights there and three days. i plan to ride my bike to the next station because i can save 2 euros that way then take the train to munich (i might be able to pay with my credit card) then i will walk around the marion platzz (the town center) and loo at the buildings and possibly go up into some of them. then i will check into my hostel which should be very close to the town center (i will pay for this online with the credit card) and sleep fore the night. they should have lugage lockers so my laptop should be safe at night and if they don't i will use my laptop lock cable in conjuction with the smaller luggage locks i have to keep the bag mostly secure. i have an option of

private twin room expensive!!
3 bed private expensive
5 bed mixed dorm less expensive
6 bed mixed dorm less expensive
and 14 bed mixed dorm which is the cheapest

i'm going with the mixed 14 bed dorm. they should have internet connections and wifi (infact i'll just post a link http://www.hostelworld.com/availability.php/MeiningerCityHostelMunich-Munich-5947 )

the next day i will go to tour castle neuschwanstien and Hohenschwangau. that should take all day
then the next day i will go to dachoe concentration camp after seeing the german mueseum.
then i will get on a train and come back to schwabish hall i decided to only go with the trip to munich because there isn't much in nurnburg and it would effectivly double my expences.

i plan to bring with 500g of spagehitti and a can of tomatoe sauce and a pack of rice cakes, pretzels, and fresh rolls. this should all fit comfortably in my laptop bag along with other essentials.

now for the explanation of my fear of not graduating and the solution.
i looked at my transcript and realized that i needed to complete 37 credits between now and graduation. i figured that max i could take here was 17 and the max i could take next semester was 17 totaling 34 (3 credits short). then mom looked it up on the abroad web site and the goethe credits don't count for fall semester they are summer credits however i will either earn 12 or 8 credits at goethe i'm not sure which right now if i complete 12 there will be no problem with graduating i will only need 13 credits to graduate and i will complete 14.5 next semester any way so no problem. however it i only get 8 credits i will need to do 17 credits nexts semester which seems like alot but if i take the classes i was planning on taking and orchestra and a music lessons and play production (three classes that are virtualy imposible to not get an A in my grad point average shold improve and i will graduate however i will have to pay slightly more to take music lessons. also none of these classes will get in the way of my work study. if possible i would like to find a course to replace music lessons but i'll cross that bridge when i come to it. all ineed to do is get infor mation and i should have all the info i need for a long time by sept 4th when i have my advising apointment with ruth.

hopfully i should have responces to my facilities maintenece question my the end of the week. over all i'm pleased with my current situation.

well thats all for today.

day 23

day 23

today i went to class and then ate lunch and then talked to mom an dad for about 3 hours then made dinner and now i'm here doing nothing. not much doing on today tomarrow nothing is going to happen i'll probably start looking up hostels and stuff.

ohhh. mom looked up my graduation dilema and found out that i might graduate on time after all. i have to ask questions and maybe yell at a few people but its still some what hazy....... again.

i'm cautiously optimistic

well thats it for today.

day 22

day 22

well the idiots ate all but two packets of my butter stock pile so i guess i will have to start taking more in the morning to have during the week break. this time i'll hide it some how. how do 5 people go though 10 packets of butter in one night?

any way i am planing my trip to munich and nurnburg now. i plan to spend 2 - 3 nights in hostels if possible i will book in advancce on line with my credit card. since i am bringing my bike with me i think i will buy train tickets on the spot incase i decide to ride to the next city or what not. i did some checking and there is no way to get a discount on the german train system because im a student. right now im planing to ride out to munich and explore alittle then sleep then go to neuschwanstien castle and the one next to it. and ride around the city. then sleep. then explore the sights in the city more thouroughly and then either ride to nurnburg or take the train back to schwabisch hall or take the train to nurnburg. either way i will go to nurnberg the next day and spend one day i nurnberg and sleep in schwabisch hall that night. so about 3 days in munich and 1 day in nurnberg with 2 - 3 hostel stays.

i'll probably end up what ever is cheaper the train to schabisch hall and back to nurnberg
or the ride to nurnbeerg and a hostel stay i think it will be pretty close.

i plan to bring my laptop bag because i don't want to leave my laptop here and i may find an unsecured network i can use to post blogs and check the weather and stuff.

i still need ideas for food to bring with. it has to be compact cheap and be full of calories. i'm gonna try to get a hostel that has a usable kitchen so cooking should not be a problem.



terrable news every one. I was bored so I decide to look over my web-advisor thing (graduation plan thing) and apparently i over looked that i need 120 credits to graduate right now i have 83 completed and need 37 to graduate this semester i am theoretically taking 18 but only 17 will count toward my overall credits because of the 17 credit max thing then i will have 20 credits to do my current plans call for 14.5 credits so i will have 5.5 credits to complete after my anticipated graduation. so unless there is some sort of miracle i'm not going to graduate. if I take 17 credits I can bring that down to three credits or one class.

this effects my post graduation goals only slightly i will aply for a job with physical plant then take a single class and gradate the next semester. and if that doesn't work i will get a factory job at pella and work the night shift and work on classes during the day.

what i can do right now is email the registrar and see if there is a way that i can take more credits this semester and next. if i can take 18 this semester and 19 next semester i might be able to graduate on time however i will have no free time what so ever. i may be able to take a summer course. i have to research this. i cannot take on an intership for credit because it is to late for that.

day 21

day 21

today i woke up and made allot of pancakes about 5-6 and atte them with strawberry jelly. when went back to sleep for an hour then woke up and got my stuff and walked to the bus station. i saw abunch of the students there already so i waited with them eventually a guy walked up and hello to some of us and then a yellow bus pulled up and we all got on then we waited 15 minutes after we were supose to leave to the spanish and turkish people.(they are always late i find it insulting). then we drove through the mountains to rothenburg. i understand why people go profesional in cycling it is so they will close these roads down and they can ride ride down these hills. from what i could tell i could take the hair pins faster tan the buss did on my bike. when we got to rothenburg we split into two groups one with frau ritter (my teacher) and one with heir kurze (a friend of the institut) we walked around the city. it turns out we watched a video by rick steves about this city its the one were they have the glocken spiele with the mayor of the town drinking lots of wine to save the town from a war. also i saw a picture of rick steves in a window of a gift shop. then frau ritter had to go so we were able to go eat and explore the city for 3 - 5 hours. i went to the kings garten park place on the east side of the inner city and ate my rolls and drank some water while loking over the city wall at the mountains in the backgound was a man playing violin with a recording. and there were flowers growing almost every were. it was a very romantic scene. then i went to the torture museum.i used my studet id to save .40 cents. i was rather unimpressed with it since i had been told that it is such a great place. a quote out side said "man kind has never been so creative as when he thinks of ways to torture other humans" i don't think people realized that these torture devices are basically old farm equipment that has been modified. all the stuff there looked alot like the stuff in grampa alkemas garage. with some exceptions.

before i left the group i was talking to jose , whom had been there before. and he said that there was a bakerie down the street so after wards i walked down the street to get some cheap food and found a bakerie cafe. i waasn't comfortable with going in so i found a fast food place and got a schnitzel sandwhich. then i had half an hour before the group was supose to get back together at the town center which didn't give me much time to do any thing so i found a good spot and keeped an eye on the meeting place. when we did get back together there was a total of 5 of us. then i worked its way down to 3 we looked at a church and sruff then we walked on the outer wall then back to the bus. i considered going into the pupet and toy museum but from the sign it looked mostly like puppet and dolls so i decide not to do it.

then we drove back on the autobahn which was also anticlimatic. and wegot back and i went to the store and got some chocolate then made dinner and ate it. now the idiots are drunk and running around the table. micheal (who is ussually quit and reserved like me) is a crazy drunk (he is loud and moves around a lot) which only encourages the others.

i need ideas for food to take to munich and nurnburg
so it has to be cheap, easy to cook (if need be cooked at all), be able to last 5 days un refridgerated, be sterdy enough to be in a back pack for 5 days, and have lots of calories. so far i have come up with animal crackers, ramen, and cereal.thanks.

any way thats all for now.

day 20

i didn't do much yesterday so i'm not gonna bother posting anything about it and today so far has been pretty boring as well so i'm gonna focus on tommarrow. tomarrow i am going to rothen burg with the goethe program. i will eat breakfast pancakes with jelly this time because i realized thay have jelly at breakfast too. and then be at the bus station at 9:00 then i assume we will take a bus to rothenburg. i'm not sure if they will feed me so i will take two hard rolls with me. and i will eat a bigg breakfast and a big dinner if nessessary. i'm not sure whats in rothenburg i think there is a museum or somthing and old buildings. thats every thing that i know about.

windows vista puts spell check in most windows now however the spll check is worse than the one they had before in xp it can''t figure out how to spell "tom marrow" it thinks it is a name. and also it doesn't see any thing wrong with not capitalizing "i" .

day 18

day 18

ok, today i started off my doing my hamoe wrok in the morning. then i went to breakfast and made a cresant sandwich stowed it then took a bannanna and 2 rolls. i brought them to the dorm refridgerated the sandwitch and stored the rest in my closet. then went to class. during first break i walked back to the dorm and walked my bike to the bike shop and used there air compressor to fill up my tire. then i rode it back to the school. today we had class photos (during class) then we were let out early because some of us needed to eat early so we could go the mercedes museum. i ate lunch with encar and jose (and girl and guy from my class) we had rice and some kind of meat based stirfry. then i rode my bike back to the dorm to get my lunch and money. then i walked back to the school. i expected to take a bus to the miseim but we ended walking to the train station and using the trains. the first train was short but easy. the second train i was sitting across from the leader so when the lady asked for my ticket i said he has it and pointed at him. when we got the the museum each of us was given a ticket with a barcode on it and were told to go in so we wondered around what was apparently the lobby till we got the the exit then the lady there explained that he had to go up an elivator. i saw lots of cars some pictures should be posted. then on the way home the train was full because it was rush hour so we all got devided up i ended up sitting with a fat man who was pretending to sleep. and the ticket lady came out and i had to explain to her why i didn't have a ticket but some guy farther up in the train had it. then we got to schwabisch hall-hessital (which is actually hessentall) and we took the buss back to shwabish hall the bus was packed but then at the next stop more people got on so every one could barley move on the bus. then i walked back to the dorm to make my dinner when i was invited to eat with the group again. we had rice and schish-Kabobs (its not spelled right but phonetically it is right). and now i'm here typing my blog. any way its 9:30 and i'm going to kill a particularlly annoying fly then go to bed.


under a bridge on the way to the museum i saw graffitti "smash capitalism! stop G8" and another saying "kill capitalism" this was obviously posted recently but when i commented on it james said they have no reason to hate capitalism they were west germany i think this has to do with capitalism not working properly in europe. in america capitalism has mostly free reign but in europe it doesn't seem to work that way (europeans have allways liked putting allot of power in there goverments were as americans want to keep goverment out of there lives and give it only limited power. i have to do more research into this.

day 17

day 17

today i woke up and went to class i forgaot to do the home work so she gave me an extention till tomarrow. today we didn't do any thing intressting. i went to the ice cream shop today to get an icecream cone but the flavors were all weird so i went to the supermarkt to get an ice cream bar or somthing but all they had was an 8 pack of tiny icecream cones so i got that and ate them all (because im so happy that i will graduate on time) i also got a air pump and an inner tube at the markt they are much cheaper there. totaling 6.17 euro. the innertube has a wierd valve on it its like a combination presta shrader valve but it was the only valve that would work with the pump. the pump tops out at about 20 psi but that more than i need for now.

tomarrow i am going to the mercedes museum so i have to remember to bring my knife to breakfast so i can cut a cresant nicely (buter knifes can't cut) then i'm going to make a cresant sandwhich using the coldcuts and cheese i will also take a bannanna and a prezel roll i will store it in the fridge here and come back after lunch to get it and go to meet the group infront of goethe. during the half hour breaak i might come back here get my bike (i put new innertube in today) and go to the bike shop and use there pump to pump it up to the apropriete presure then i will ride it around until i have to go back to class then i will sit through class then eat lunch. the library doesn't open until 14:00 and i have to be in front of the school at 13:15 so i won't have tme to talk to mom and dad or post my blog. then i will ride my bike back here and get my lunch and go back to goethe to go to the museum. i expect to take lots of pictures and will post some here. then i will go to the movie.its gonna be a busy day.

and thats all that happened and will happen.