Blogs from Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Europe - page 52

What a great Mon. this turned out to be. =) Started off perfect... I got to sleep in an hour later than usual... that's always a good thing. I even had time to start reading an article for my afternoon class. And, I actually understand all of it. It's a very interesting article about the term 'Underdeveloped coutries' and why it's better than the more politically correct terms. Quite interesting. And I'm soooo excited that I understand it! (and yes it is in German). I'm not even having to look up very many words... what a good feeling that is. hehe... There was snow on the ground this morning.... how beautiful =) (unfortunately it's now all melted) My first class of the day was nothing spectacular. Actually it was pretty boring, but that happens. Then after ... read more

It's been a good week so far. Mon. night salsa class was fun. Tue., my prof actually showed up to class (granted 10 min. late, but it was an imporvement). A lecture class is really boring cause ally ou do for an hour n' a half is listen to a prof ramble on, but it's not too bad. At least I can understand most everything. Spent the rest of the day reading for my International Plolitics class, but at least I understood the articles. =) A great improvement over the last article I had to read for that class. Tue. night I went to a jazz bar with Matt, Jaime and her boyfriend. It was really nice. The bar was down in a cellar and the atmosphere was just perfect for jazz. Yesterday was a pretty ... read more

Yeah, I can access this site again. I haven't been able to get to this site since Tue. I kept getting a message from the University of Trier that I couldn't understand and thought for some reason they had blocked this site. I was really sad. Anyway, it's all good now. This past week has been pretty good. If you haven't seen the movie Hotel Rwanda, I would really recommend seeing it. It's a very heavy and moving movie. I really think it presents the issues surrounding the genocide very well. It makes me soo mad that the international community knew that genocide was being committed and yet we all turned a blind eye. Why do we continue to do that? We keep lying to ourselves saying that genocide will never happen again and yet it ... read more

Another great weekend in Trier. Sat. was a great day. Matt came over and we made tortillas together. It was a lot of fun. Matt even managed to roll one into the shape of Germany (not on purpose) and another one into kinda of the shape of Africa. It was quite entertaining. I have pictures, but don't have enough time right now to load the pics. (I have class in a bit). I'll try to get them up this week though. After we were done making em, we made ourselves some quesadillas...mmmmmm... soooo good. Sat. night Matt and I went into town for Honky Tonk Trier. There were 16 different bands that were playing at different bars in town. (they were all within walking distance) At the bus station we ran into Dennis and Manolo. (Dennis ... read more

Yesterday was overall a very nice day. Didn't have any classes. =) I planned to do some cooking, cleaning and of course hw and studying. I most all of that, maybe not as much as I planned, but ehh.. that's what I have today for. =) Anyway.. yesterday while I was online I wrote down a recipe I found for chorizo. I was so excited and of course had to make it yesterday. (It'll be ready on Sun, so I'll let you know how it turned out on Mon.) A really good lesson that I learned though while making it: After handling peppers (even dried) DO NOT touch your face at all. At the same time I was making the chorizo, I was also making myself lunch (mmmm...sloppy joes) and mixed the meat and of course ... read more