still here...
...but I have a feeling I'm in Kansas for real! It's weird, but so far so good. It's too hot (around +40 celsius for the first two weeks = hell on Earth), I think I'm just plain stupid for taking four literature classes and one writing class (the amount of books = headache), and today I found a whole book on my exact thesis topic, which made me want to cry (I kind of decided that I probably have to use it as one of my sources, but I'm not reading that bitch until I'm done with the first phase of research), but I guess this is what you call my life. No anxiety attacks. No roommate problems. Enormous money problems (school books cost too much), but thank GOD one dollar amounts to about 0,78 euro which means I win every time I buy something. At least when it's not ridiculously expensive anyway. Everyone is so nice, almost too nice since the cynical girl can never doubt too much, so that I feel rather comfortable in here. It might help that there are eight other Finns here at the same time, but I don't know... This just feels so much different when compared to Birmingham three years ago. And I'm even attending my classes, whoa! It still feels so strange to be here, but maybe I'll survive this time. And then there will be no need to come and meet me at the railway station before Christmas (but then you can, I will have too much stuff).