The Solution is Just to Drive Away from the Rain!!

5.-6.8-10

The past few days in Holzkirchen have been fairly uneventful, for the most part.  Lots of stress about last minute homework and the slideshow, but everything is done now!!  We finished the slideshow last night, and its pretty awesome.  I´ll try and get it online, but idk if that is going to happen, because it´s 25 minutes long, and I think Youtube and Facebook both have time limits for that. Since I was at Divesh´s working on the show last night, his host parents asked me to stay for dinner.  It was some kind of Thai dish...a soup full of mushrooms and shrimp.  So, I picked those out, and ate the broth, peapods, and tomatoes.  Other than all that work for picking out stuff, it was actually pretty delicious.  After dinner, we sat around for about another hour or two talking about random things.  His family is soo nice and really funny too.  I kinda wish I got a family like that where not only do they have dinner every night, but its a big affair with lots of conversation.  Oh well....  In other news, its been pouring for about 2 straight days, and its about 60 degrees.  However, there is a happy part--Austria is bright and sunny and warm!!!  And after lunch tomorrow, I leave my host family for my real family, and we depart to the land of the sunny warm weather!  And after 6 days in Österreich we return to Sweet Home Chicago!!  I´m in a fairly good mood right now, for the above reasons, and a few others.  I was able to bs my way through the book discussion, being an "expert" on a chapter I read less than half of (and I read even less of the rest of the book...but in my defense, I could not read more than 2 pages without falling asleep).  I wrote my very last essay for my film class today after I got home in about half an hour.  I was pretty proud of my German writing speed. =)  Tonight is the Abschiedsabend (Farewell Dinner),  and everyone gets to see my and Divesh´s slideshow, and I get to see everyone do the skits and songs they´ve been working on, and it´ll be a pretty fun time.  It´ll be a bit sad, because I most likely will not see any of those people ever again, and I´ve become pretty good friends with some of them.  I´ll also miss my host family, though I will not miss the loud house.  I never really considered my house a quiet one, but I guess it is.  3 little kids make a big difference.  It´ll also be nice to get back to my (ir)regular sleeping schedule.  I was a bit disappointed with myself when I found that I could not stay up past 1:30 am or sleep past 11:30 am (as opposed to my normal 2:30 am to 2:30 pm sleep schedule).  Perhaps jet lag will "fix" that, lol.  Right now I am packing, and I am about halfway done (I took a short break to write this).  I think I bought too many souvenirs.  Oh well.  I think it will all fit.  I´ll try and get some more pictures up soon, I have about 6 albums in the queue ready to go, it´s just a matter of finding enough time to do so.


speaking of, Dresden/Crimmitschau:  http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2051242&id=1135320260&l=21197999b9