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so. i write to you from the less-than-glorious land of hampshire college. i've returned for a jiffy to see the few lingering faces around campus, as well as to theoretically finish a twenty page paper on the commodification of art in berli (due on friday). so far, both of these objectives have proved minor failures but i've got a few days remaining and can make up for lost time. for my stay here, i am actually living in the room next to my old room, making things very surreal and a tad depressing. there is a rave party happening across the sidewalk from here, and more hippies in sight than i saw the entire time i was in berlin. also plenty of hipsters, but the hampshire breed seems rather unstimulating after one becomes accustomed to the german variety. i guess that could be said about most things. as you can see, i am, once again, immersed in the non-culture of the united states of america, and i miss germany quite tremendously. i arrived late friday night, after a pair of back-to-back nearly allnighters and a string of terrible travel adventures including but not limited to, itinerary changes, late flights, broken in flight entertainment systems, lost luggage, lighter confiscation, and rose-hip-jam explosion. not so cute. it took me a full two days to recover from this and emerge from my self-induced trance, and i am only now beginning to notice that i am not at all in germany anymore. seems i could write a novel on this subject, though jet lag and a fading grasp on the english language hinder that prospect. suffice to say i will never be better at goodbyes. you'd think with all this practice i'd have it down to a science, but, alas, i spent six hours in a row crying as i made my way home through airports and clouds. i maintain a remarkable ability to romanticize everything from my past. as fed up as i was with lexia, and as frustrated as i was by berlin, the fact remains i have nothing but fond memories of them both. it feels strange to order things in english, get strange looks when i say danke and bitte by mistake, not be able to buy beer, have to drive everywhere. the shock is not so bad, but compounded with everything else, it all becomes overwhelming. so overwhelming i cannot write a proper entry right now. but, rest assured, i have plenty of free internet (at long last!) and a twenty page paper to write, so you've not yet heard the end of me here.