We didn't have any classes today, but I still had to get up early (i.e. 7:20) for breakfast, and then a three hour meeting after that. I don't remember most of the meeting right now - the last half hour I was dozing on and off.
I was so tired that I didn't go to Mass, and even slept through lunch. I had to get up eventually though, because there was yet another meeting. This meeting was about two hours long, and I've forgotten most of it too, mostly because there have been a bajillion meetings this week.
After the meeting, I talked with Jamie and her friend for bit - another person who promptly forgot my name after introduction, which is completely fine, but didn't think it worth the effort to ask me again when I left...*sigh* this seems to be a continuing trend.
Then I talked with one of the faculty, Marosh (I'm not sure if that's how his name is spelled, but that's how it sounds) about trying to visit Kristin. I didn't quite understand him, but basically I got the idea that it would be much simpler for us to meet for a weekend in Vienna since we'd have to go through there anyways.
After that, I eventually found a little path into the field behind the Kartause, and climbed up a ways to find a little bench off to the side of a gravel road running through the mountain, and I finished reading my philosophy homework up there. Reading Plato in a beautiful hill in Austria - sound dreamy, right? Honestly, I think my good ol' Pennsylvania is just as beautiful, but at least I was almost completely alone up there. I don't know, living with 200+ other people has made me feel penned up and I'm not looking forward to three more months of this feeling, so please pray for me.
Right now I'm actually trying to figure out where I left my keycard - you guys should place bets on how many times I'll lose the dang thing this semester.
After the walk, I went to the Mensa and ate some yummy toast by myself. I didn't know where Krista was, and honestly, going to the Mensa is becoming a chore and a headache. I really don't like being able to eat when I want, and being confined in super close quarters. Plus I'm already tired of the whole meeting people, eating with them, and then after that meal, the people promptly forgetting or ignoring me. Wahwahwah, I know I'm a baby, but there you have it.
I started reading more homework (Three to Get Married - you were right, Katie!) - I've only read a little bit, so I'm not quite sure what I think about it yet.
The girls from yesterday and I were planning on meeting up at seven tonight (the Kartuase is having a showing of The Sound of Music - it's actually going on right now), but only one girl showed up, because the other girls were really busy preparing the music for Mass in Salzburg tomorrow. That was fine by me, since those particular girls sing really well and use very appropriate songs for Mass.
So Jenny and I prayed the Rosary while we walked a bit in the fields I walked in earlier today, I came back and ate cereal while studying.
One thing Austria does trump the US in - their milk is DELICIOUS! I can't remember if I mentioned it before, but I think their version of the fattier US 2% is 3.5%, and it is sooooo gooooood. I ate Choco Flakes with the milk, and they kinda look like one half of a peanut shell.
Other foods I'm trying out are Zartbitter (a chocolate covered gingerbread that looks like a chocolate covered pretzel), some weird granola bars, Milka bars, and an Austrian sort of trail mix.
Random facts:
I was so tired that I didn't go to Mass, and even slept through lunch. I had to get up eventually though, because there was yet another meeting. This meeting was about two hours long, and I've forgotten most of it too, mostly because there have been a bajillion meetings this week.
After the meeting, I talked with Jamie and her friend for bit - another person who promptly forgot my name after introduction, which is completely fine, but didn't think it worth the effort to ask me again when I left...*sigh* this seems to be a continuing trend.
Then I talked with one of the faculty, Marosh (I'm not sure if that's how his name is spelled, but that's how it sounds) about trying to visit Kristin. I didn't quite understand him, but basically I got the idea that it would be much simpler for us to meet for a weekend in Vienna since we'd have to go through there anyways.
After that, I eventually found a little path into the field behind the Kartause, and climbed up a ways to find a little bench off to the side of a gravel road running through the mountain, and I finished reading my philosophy homework up there. Reading Plato in a beautiful hill in Austria - sound dreamy, right? Honestly, I think my good ol' Pennsylvania is just as beautiful, but at least I was almost completely alone up there. I don't know, living with 200+ other people has made me feel penned up and I'm not looking forward to three more months of this feeling, so please pray for me.
Right now I'm actually trying to figure out where I left my keycard - you guys should place bets on how many times I'll lose the dang thing this semester.
After the walk, I went to the Mensa and ate some yummy toast by myself. I didn't know where Krista was, and honestly, going to the Mensa is becoming a chore and a headache. I really don't like being able to eat when I want, and being confined in super close quarters. Plus I'm already tired of the whole meeting people, eating with them, and then after that meal, the people promptly forgetting or ignoring me. Wahwahwah, I know I'm a baby, but there you have it.
I started reading more homework (Three to Get Married - you were right, Katie!) - I've only read a little bit, so I'm not quite sure what I think about it yet.
The girls from yesterday and I were planning on meeting up at seven tonight (the Kartuase is having a showing of The Sound of Music - it's actually going on right now), but only one girl showed up, because the other girls were really busy preparing the music for Mass in Salzburg tomorrow. That was fine by me, since those particular girls sing really well and use very appropriate songs for Mass.
So Jenny and I prayed the Rosary while we walked a bit in the fields I walked in earlier today, I came back and ate cereal while studying.
One thing Austria does trump the US in - their milk is DELICIOUS! I can't remember if I mentioned it before, but I think their version of the fattier US 2% is 3.5%, and it is sooooo gooooood. I ate Choco Flakes with the milk, and they kinda look like one half of a peanut shell.
Other foods I'm trying out are Zartbitter (a chocolate covered gingerbread that looks like a chocolate covered pretzel), some weird granola bars, Milka bars, and an Austrian sort of trail mix.
Random facts:
- the mosquitoes are every bit annoying here at they are in Toledo. My right ankle is swollen right now from two bugbites I have there. Also, the bracken here is EVERYWHERE and it's super annoying nd pokey.
- I figured out the basic tune to Backwards In Time by the Avett Brothers, and now I'm working on some tabs I found, including The Piano Man.
- these are some partial quotes from Three to Get Married that I'm feeling really apply to this semester so far; "for it is the nature of man to be sad when he is pulled outside himself, or exteriorized without getting any nearer his goal.", "He who has no purpose in life is unhappy", and "To love what is below the human, is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human, is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine, is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity."
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