Happy New Year! I have been on the road for about three weeks now, and I finally have my computer back. In this time, I have been to four different countries and enjoyed myself to the full. Because it is nearly impossible to cover the wonders of Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Spain all in one email, I have decided to break this up into several parts that I will write about as I have time. Finally I have pictures of Paris up on the website--thank you for your patience with the extreme delay.
In the intermittent time between Paris and my departure for my holiday travels, there was a whirlwind of studying and partying to be done. Also, because people were in their rooms studying with the internet on, there wasn't a lot of bandwidth left for me to use to upload. One of the more fun parties we had was a Thanksgiving celebration that we put on for the school. My responsibility was the decoration, and it gave me warm fuzzies to make the caf look like the Yosemite Thanksgiving I remember fondly. There was also a series of Christmas parties with secret friend gift exchanges and the like.
I love parties, but a mandatory three-four hour party during finals week is ridiculous. . . it was fun, but between that and the girls who chattered in my room late into the night, I faced my finals less prepared than the year I skipped dead week because I had bronchitis. No matter; I'm not just here for the academics, but for the cultural experience, and that has been absolutely fantastic.
No comments:
Post a Comment