The *excitement* of my life

Well, I must say that I have put this off for a while and so now I will babble briefly and try to update what's been happening with me. My parents were here until last Monday and I really really enjoyed their visit--if nothing else, I ate incredibly well and it may be good to be on my own so that I don't have to eat so much ;-p The weather has been brutally hot, which has made it hard for me to exercise a lot and to concentrate in my courses...hopefully I will get used to 30+ degrees and be able to participate more fully + not feel like my German is falling backwards lol. WE went to STrassburg on Monday and visited the EU parlament--I have great respect for those translators because they have one tough job. I've been trying to work on two referats for next week, both on works by Goethe and I have gotten fairly far but I think I'm going to take a brief break and then be able to see where I might be doing things wrong. Yesterday I went with Hanna and we watched the soccer game Mexico-Angola at an italian restaurant in the Altstadt...I can't say that now I am in love with soccer but I was impressed with the Angolian goalie--he totally kept them in the game and was the main reason that it ended 0-0. He reminded me of Kipper too ;-p How are those Oilers doing anyways? I'm a little far away to be super involved in that. Today I am going with Rhiannon, a girl I met last semester in my Kleist course, to Staufen the "FAustian" Stadt...but it's not because of Faust. There is a Wine and Music festival this weekend and today there is even a Street DAnce contest we might be able to check out--that is *exciting* for me. I haven't been to Staufen yet and so it will be neat to go there. Tomorrow I'm going to Calvary Chapel and then I'm going out for lunch with the Campus people. Two of the Stinters (the americans who were here) are going home on Monday...one has an internship and the other will be coming back in the Fall for a second year (!) I thought it would be cool to say goodbye to them. I don't know about you, but I would like to feel appreciated when I leave rather than like I didn't have any importance ;-p Next week I hope I can make it through all my courses...this week we had a holiday on Thursday and I was very very glad to have another day off. It has taken me a while to recover from not doing much homework when my parents were here ;-p I haven't even labelled my pictures yet. Oh well, I will get it done soon enough. I should probably go now and *focus* again. Thanks for reading my babbles. Take care und einen schoenen Tag noch!