so I finally finished reading The Silmarillion last night. It's a lot different from The Lord of the Rings because you don't really get to know the characters, it's like the telling of a history. Though some parts were really interesting (especially near the end) all the parts about the landscape and how it changed were dull. Still though, I'm glad ( Read more... )

so there is this german lady who works in the snack shop where mark and i sometimes get yogart. we just went down there and mark decided to tell her that i'm a german minor. she wouldn't take my order until i said it in german. at that moment i promptly forgot everything i learned over the past 2 years and turned bright red. she told me that i ( Read more... )

What a mad rush week.

I had my German midterm yesterday and I finally made myself understand "Wo compounds." I also had to write a ( silly little paragraph on German Food )

Trying to readjust to the madness that is school and all that it entails. My classes are going to either whip my reading and writing abilities into shape, or kick my ass. ashlie and i both bought the wrong sociology book, so we spent over an hour in the library making copies of different articles we have to read. i have 3 very feminist teachers. ( Read more... )

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