Random Notes: Volume I, Issue 3

I lost my headphones.
Which means no more Stillwater Hobos (at least until a replacement can be found)
Agony.

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Luckily, I have found consolation; chocolate.
Krista and I (with an emphasis on I) may or may not have devoured one box of delicious Croatian chocolate dipped biscuits (that Monika introduced us to) in less than 24 hours.
Also, I may or may not have consumed one large bag of M&M's (it can with 10% more!) and a triple sized bar of Milka within a rather teeny time frame.

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Also, I discovered that a WHOLE SEASON of Korra happened and I didn't even know it! I can tell you I remedied that problem prett-ee quickly!
Unfortunately, it's only the first day of midterms week, and in my first fervor, I left only a couple episodes of season two to distract myself with.

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I've succeeded in getting Europeans to think I'm European, and getting Franciscan girls to think I'm Franciscan.
Well, I am technically Franciscan, but the fact that I'm now considered to be dressing unhomeschoolerish enough is pretty hilarious to me.
Little do the Europeans or the Franciscan's know....

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I've meet all the students and the directors for the LCI program. One of the directors however, looked reaaaalllly familiar to me, and I finally remembered her face from being one of Sister Maria's volleyball teammates her freshman year!
When I was walking back from the town today, I saw her (Teresa) and we talked a little bit about it. She was super nice and said we should get coffee, which would be fun, but very adult-ish and I doubt it'll happen because the LCI people seem to always be running around like headless chickens with all the events they're involved in.

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This post of Krista's is simply golden.

Random Notes: Volume 1, Issue 2

I'm finally getting better, which means...I can eat chocolate!!! I'm already 2/3 of the way through my Dessert Au Chocolat (don't that sound fancy?) Milka bar, and I opened it up five minutes ago.

By the by, Milka chocolate is basically the European equivalent of Hershey's chocolate from what I understand. And speaking of Hershey's, I got some M&M's at the train station yesterday, and though they were overpriced, the fact I was eating AMERICAN candy made me really giddy!

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I like how they do bed covers here.

Instead of a sheet on top of the mattress, and then a cover over that, they simply slip the sheet over the cover (like a pillow)

It's really comfortable, and you don't have to worry about dirtying the comforter/cover thing. It makes me think of a two-for-the-price-of-one thing, for some reason.

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Krista and I had a child this weekend. Her name is Gwendolyn. More on that later, but isn't Gwendolyn such a beauteous name?

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I had my first midterm today. It went fairly well - it was mostly essays and ID's, and I don't know how Dr. Hass grades them.

I decided to have a little fun with myself for one of the ID's, where he gives you a keyword, and you give some information bullet points on that keyword.
The ID was for the 30 Years War, and for the background, I wrote a bit about the Second Defenestration of Prague.

Here's Wikipedia's version: "....Soon after, the two Regents were thrown out of the third floor window along with the Regents' secretary, Philipus Fabricius, but survived after falling 70 feet."

And here is my version; "Protestant rebels were gathering in Prague, 1618. Catholic king sends messengers to break it up. Messengers promptly tossed out a window."

Random Notes: Volume I, Issue I

The birds here are really annoying.
This is their "song"

BLAH.

BLAH.

BLAH.

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There are rather creepy cameras in my Medieval World classroom.
The cameras are for broadcasting other classes to main campus,
But sometimes during Medieval World class, although it's not supposed to broadcasted, the cameras start swirling around.
The first time I noticed was particularly creepy, because the first time I saw one of them moving out of the corner of my eye, I turned my head to double check and the camera immediately stopped moving.
It did that a couple times, before I got a good look.
I imagine that there were some techies on main campus who saw me getting a little disturbed, and decided to play with my mind.
Hopefully they had fun.

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European toilets are weird.
It's kinda cool that you can regulate how much water you use by first pushing one side of the button down for the water to start, and then pushing the other side down when things look...cleaned up.
But seriously, the placement of the hole in the toilet is just weird - it's on the opposite side of an American toilet.
Think about that carefully, and you'll eventually understand why that can be reallllllly nasty.

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I'm getting really good at planning social things with people.
Like, uncannily good.

Yesterday, as a girl I've talked to a couple times in Philosophy of the Human Person class was walking out of the lobby entrance, I stopped her as I was going in and asked her if she'd want to play some volleyball if I got some people together, to which she heartily consented to.

Man, I was so smooth - it was slicker than snot.