it's been awhile since i've been able to write on xanga due to password problems, but now i'm back.

i'm sure so many of you read this anyways...

so here's an update of where i am right now.

i'm at lipscomb for the first two and a half weeks before we leave for Vienna on September 5th.

we're having intense music appreciation/german/history classes. my classes are actually very tough. my music app teacher looks dead on like david bowie playing andy warhol in the movie "basquiat". he is very passionate about music. a bit much so. we are learning way too much about how to read operas and learning what all these italian words mean.

my humanities, which is basically just all european history, is really hard. i had a hard enough time with history already, but this is ridiculous. it's all moving in fast forward and i'm just trying to hang on. i think i'll be ok eventually, once i get settled.

german, on the other hand is really fun. my teacher, herr mcvey, is really funny and a good teacher. people who make learning more than sitting and staring have my respect. and now, since i am learning, i am now sort of quadralingual. go me. english, spanish, french, and now german. i will now teach you a german phrase:

"Lass mich en ruhe!", pronounced, "Lass meekh in roo!"
it means, "Leave me alone!"

and i'm slowly gaining more and more german knowledge.

i'm so incredibly excited i just can't stand it.

13 days left.

in other news, bryanna believes that she has food poisoning. this really sucks. poor girl is so accident-prone...

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