Hatujambo, The last two days have been very interesting and busy. Yesterday we had a lot of orientation stuff. We had to fill out lots and lots of paper work. Not so much fun, but has to be done. Still havent' gotten used to this heat... I think everyday is hotter than the last. You're constantly dripping sweat, but so is everyone else. In the morning we visited a school for children with Cerebral Palsey. That was sad. It's a private school (meaning funded by sponsors). It's just one building and they have 56 students with varying disabilities. They've divided the building into three parts with wooden particians. The levels are by the capabilities of the student and by the last level they work on integrating the students into regular schools. They don't have much to ... read more

This will be the last entry I'll be writing from Germany for a while. The next will be from Kenya! Tomorrow morning I'm off to Frankfrut to begin my 24 hour travel day to Mombasa Kenya. Quite excited but also a little nervous and scared... but mostly excited. It's been a great semester in Germany and I can't believe it's over already. Now I'm ready for some very new adventures in Kenya. I'll try to write as often as I can. I'll also be trying to get pictures up on my site when I can. Here's my itenerary in case you're interested in seeing what I'll be up to: KENYA: SWAHILI STUDIES & COASTAL CULTURES SPRING 2006 PROGRAM SCHEDULE** February 5 - 11 Program Orientation & Introduction to Swahili Language: Mombasa & Malindi FSS February 12 ... read more

The semester is now over! Took my last exam today. And it went pretty well. It's such a good feeling to be done. My exam yesterday wasn't too bad either. Not the greatest, but I definetly passed. Things are coming to an end here really quickly. Last night I met with my referat group. The four of us met at one of the nearby bars to celebrate being done with our referat. Julia, Tina and Sabine are all very nice. It was fun to hang out with them for a few hours. It's too bad we didn't have to do our presentation earlier in the Semester. It would have been nice to have met them earlier and had time to hang out with them. Oh well.... that's the crummy thing about just being here for a ... read more

Sorry guys, I'm like bouncing off the walls with excitement. Just got back from my exam in my Introduction to International Relations and International Politics: .The Europeanization of national international, security and development politics. The oral exam was about 30 min. long, but I really wasn't that nervous. The first few questions that he asked me didn't even have to do with the class. They were about difference I've noticed between Universities in the US and Germany and what students expect. Also differences in the political culture between the two countries. After that he asked questions about the course.... most of which were questions on things that I didn't study. I studied the things that came up multiple times in class, thinking those would most likely be one's to come up. Nope... not really. Although I ... read more

Morning everyone, I've been meaning to write again, but somehow the time just keeps disappearing. So, I'm writing before class 'cause I know once I start working on things I'll run out of time again. The rest of my Christmas break was really nice. Mama and Papa came back from Spain in the evening of the 1st. They both had the day off on the 2nd, so we went to Essen in the afternoon. They had to exchange a jacket and I just went along for the ride. =) As we were leaving, we saw the movie theater and decided we'd see if anything good was playing. There was, but we had time for dinner first so we ate at New Orleans. hehe.. I had a Chicken Ceasar Salad... hadn't realized how much I had missed ... read more