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finally done with exams, and they weren't as terrible as i initially made them out to be. and since they made the exams ridiculously difficult (radu, our ta, commented that there was no way he could've finished the exam in the allotted 90 mins- so it makes me feel less bad that we all fell short of our expectations). still need one more score, and that's the exam i'm most worried about. we'll see, no use worrying about things i have no control over.
we leave for sweden in less than a week. there's so much that needs to get done- need to exmatrikulate, and hopefully that won't be too painful/involve entirely too much paperwork. need to swing by hamburg to pick up my swedish visa- i initially wanted to meet up with jya-ing smithies and ayla and audrey, but don't know how that's going to work out. i'm thinking of going on wednesday, which is midweek and people have lives. perhaps i can grab lunch with folks i love and miss muchly- don't know, i should probably leave them notes on facebook.
i'm not one to make new year's resolutions, but i jotted down some notes on a post-it over my beer-fuelled 12 hour layover at the abu dhabi airport. top three on the list were "live more", "love more" and "meet new people; make new friends". i must say i'm keeping them quite well. würzburg is still about as dead as it ever was, but i shall still miss many things about it when i finally leave. with every city i've ever lived in, i always felt like i left a part of me when i moved away- it's perhaps for this reason that i'm always constantly trying to go back to these familiar places and relive the happy memories by doing all too familiar things (i'm a sucker for nostalgia). i figured that won't be the case when i finally leave bavaria. good to know i stand corrected.
drinking started early on friday, because indy got a case of beer and a bunch of us were free-basing beer the second we got out of turing hörsaal. after a good couple hours in the informatik building, we moved to galgenberg, where thomas and his roommates made us the best pizza i've eaten in a while (the dough was the only thing that was ready-made). went to brauhaus to meet up with frieder and bernd (folks from my studentenwonheim) and the rest of the spaceppl and headed over to brazil for another evening with the spaniards (and david and francisco and emmanuele, who are three of my closest non-spaceppl friends in this city). despite being dead (pulled an allnighter the night before the exam) and never without a bottle of beer in my hand, i had the time of my life because every single person who made würzburg worth remembering was there in that room, and everyone was smiling and happy (and very drunk) and dancing to everything from reggaeton to salsa to the occasional techno/electrocrap. (okay, so i can think of a couple folks who should've been there, but i'll be seeing them before i leave anyway). i think that was precisely when i realized that leaving this city isn't going to be that easy, and that i should expect to find myself here again in the very near future. ignore whatever i said on those postcards- bavaria is apathetic and conservative as all hell and people don't smile enough- but it does feel like home.
packing up my material posessions into two suitcases that will be shipped to sweden tomorrow. laundry should just about be done now, which gives me some time to pack before i head into town to watch the superbowl. everyone seems to be predicting a steelers win, and looking at the numbers leading up to today, they certainly do seem like they're worthy of the odds. but eh, i shall support the underdogs. i think i care more about watching the superbowl because i get to hang out with kevin, antwain and liz, and shaun and those spaniards that also believe in guinness on sundays.
still don't know about uk trip this coming week. tickets to glasgow/edinburgh are on the pricey side. tickets to london stansted on the other hand, are dirt cheap. london means i get to see nan and nick- two people i haven't seen in entirely too long, who mean the world to me. plus francisco wants to go to london because he's never been there despite being from spain and all, and i do need to make up for the fact that i bailed on the nürnberg trip after finding out that brunner (the only person in germany to truly get on my nerves) was going as well. the downside is that no matter where i go, i can't leave before thursday (but i do get to see an albatross in wurzburg on tuesday, so woo), and i need to be back saturday morning, which gives me two days. ah well, i should sort things out. bandslag1- even if i don't swing by this time around, i'm certainly making it to edinburgh end of march because ripping records lists bands i want to see (oh, and belle and sebastian are playing in london at hammersmith apollo on the 10th, so that's points++ for london). and you should visit sweden- we can snowboard (badly) and visit the icehotel and see the aurora borealis (if we're lucky). in any case, will keep you posted.
we leave for sweden in less than a week. there's so much that needs to get done- need to exmatrikulate, and hopefully that won't be too painful/involve entirely too much paperwork. need to swing by hamburg to pick up my swedish visa- i initially wanted to meet up with jya-ing smithies and ayla and audrey, but don't know how that's going to work out. i'm thinking of going on wednesday, which is midweek and people have lives. perhaps i can grab lunch with folks i love and miss muchly- don't know, i should probably leave them notes on facebook.
i'm not one to make new year's resolutions, but i jotted down some notes on a post-it over my beer-fuelled 12 hour layover at the abu dhabi airport. top three on the list were "live more", "love more" and "meet new people; make new friends". i must say i'm keeping them quite well. würzburg is still about as dead as it ever was, but i shall still miss many things about it when i finally leave. with every city i've ever lived in, i always felt like i left a part of me when i moved away- it's perhaps for this reason that i'm always constantly trying to go back to these familiar places and relive the happy memories by doing all too familiar things (i'm a sucker for nostalgia). i figured that won't be the case when i finally leave bavaria. good to know i stand corrected.
drinking started early on friday, because indy got a case of beer and a bunch of us were free-basing beer the second we got out of turing hörsaal. after a good couple hours in the informatik building, we moved to galgenberg, where thomas and his roommates made us the best pizza i've eaten in a while (the dough was the only thing that was ready-made). went to brauhaus to meet up with frieder and bernd (folks from my studentenwonheim) and the rest of the spaceppl and headed over to brazil for another evening with the spaniards (and david and francisco and emmanuele, who are three of my closest non-spaceppl friends in this city). despite being dead (pulled an allnighter the night before the exam) and never without a bottle of beer in my hand, i had the time of my life because every single person who made würzburg worth remembering was there in that room, and everyone was smiling and happy (and very drunk) and dancing to everything from reggaeton to salsa to the occasional techno/electrocrap. (okay, so i can think of a couple folks who should've been there, but i'll be seeing them before i leave anyway). i think that was precisely when i realized that leaving this city isn't going to be that easy, and that i should expect to find myself here again in the very near future. ignore whatever i said on those postcards- bavaria is apathetic and conservative as all hell and people don't smile enough- but it does feel like home.
packing up my material posessions into two suitcases that will be shipped to sweden tomorrow. laundry should just about be done now, which gives me some time to pack before i head into town to watch the superbowl. everyone seems to be predicting a steelers win, and looking at the numbers leading up to today, they certainly do seem like they're worthy of the odds. but eh, i shall support the underdogs. i think i care more about watching the superbowl because i get to hang out with kevin, antwain and liz, and shaun and those spaniards that also believe in guinness on sundays.
still don't know about uk trip this coming week. tickets to glasgow/edinburgh are on the pricey side. tickets to london stansted on the other hand, are dirt cheap. london means i get to see nan and nick- two people i haven't seen in entirely too long, who mean the world to me. plus francisco wants to go to london because he's never been there despite being from spain and all, and i do need to make up for the fact that i bailed on the nürnberg trip after finding out that brunner (the only person in germany to truly get on my nerves) was going as well. the downside is that no matter where i go, i can't leave before thursday (but i do get to see an albatross in wurzburg on tuesday, so woo), and i need to be back saturday morning, which gives me two days. ah well, i should sort things out. bandslag1- even if i don't swing by this time around, i'm certainly making it to edinburgh end of march because ripping records lists bands i want to see (oh, and belle and sebastian are playing in london at hammersmith apollo on the 10th, so that's points++ for london). and you should visit sweden- we can snowboard (badly) and visit the icehotel and see the aurora borealis (if we're lucky). in any case, will keep you posted.