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I'm still alive and having fun! I just haven't had internet access in about a week. good golly. I had about 95 emails when i checked my mail the other day. This is what has been going on in my life. Let's start with last weekend. umm. drinking and clubbing? That's all we do. gosh. you are right amy. i club more here than i do back at home. I do not like clubbing that much at home, and it's definitely not my favorite here, but that's all Tyler wants to freaking do. He is cool, but I don't get too close to him cuz he is one of those bags of dirt that like to be around too much. ohh wait. we went to the pool last saturday i believe. the pool was cool. it was a very nice warm sunny day ( we don't get very many of those in Germany). There were two big swim areas. one for actually swimming and one for playing, i guess. it had a slide. woohoo. and a nice grass area where people were laying in the shade. pretty nice. then sunday happened. oh man. we went to the vineyard on sunday morning. what a trip that was. 30 drunk foreign kids on a sunday morning drinking on empty stomachs. someone was bound to throw up. i was bound. so we were supposed to taste 10 different wines. one sparkling. one rose. five white wines. and 3 red wines. Tyler doesn't drink and Emileigh can't really either, so they thought it would be funny to get me drunk and pour their glasses into mine when i went to talk to people at other tables. I thought I could hang. boy was i wrong. As soon as we left the wine tasting to get lunch, I started throwing up in the grass nearby. how gross. I never want to do that ever again. drinking is overrated. anyways. this is what happened. i started throwing up in the grass, and what do the Germans do? naturally, you would call the ambulance, right?? goodness gracious. that is what they did. they freaking called the ambulance and threw me in there (after i was done throwing up). oh my. a good thing about germany is that they don't slap me with a bill unless they actually drive me somewhere. i went home on the bus with the rest of the class. thank freaking goodness. ok. that was sunday. on Monday night, Tyler, JJ and I went to this Irish pub to see a live Irish band. that was awkward. we walked in and there were like a few guys playing the flute or something. so we left and walked around for a bit. Tuesday, I think we went on an excursion to a brewery. YAY!. more drunk kids on a Tuesday morning before lecture. don't worry guys, I had half a beer and gave it away. THEN, after this long day of walking around and trying to catch trains, we have to go back to school to have a midterm study session cuz we have a test the following morning. poor planning. yes. i know. Wednesday morning comes along and we all take the midterm. right after the midterm, my roomate, Yaeji, this cute Korean girl, which I love to death, talks to Norman, one of the summer program leaders, because she has been getting bug bites all over her body. I'm not gonna lie, it was pretty gnarley. I am sitting in lecture a few hours later when she comes back and calls me outside. she is so sad and apologizes to me because I guess she had bed bugs or some kind of allergic reaction and we have to move out of the room we were currently staying in. she felt super bad, but it wasn't her fault. So I have to leave class and wash all my clothes, just in case there were bugs or something that might get me. As we are watiting for the tram, I run into Carmen. I also love her. she tells me that Norman told her to go to the hospital because she stayed with me and Yaeji a few nights that week and she might be "infected". so we both go to the hostpital to get checked out. We jump on a bus into town and it takes us in a huge circle because they switched drivers and were changing routes. ugh. so we hop on another bus to take us to the hospital. long story short. sorry. this story is kind of long. we get checked out and nothing is wrong with us except a few bites on our arms and it is not a disease or contagious or anything and i have to pay 50 fucking euro. omg. they refunded me 20 today and i have to get the rest back through the insurance i bought for this trip. that whole day trip to the hospital took 4 hours and i missed like 2 lectures. wait. that is not the end of it. we have to move out of our room in the city and they put us in single rooms at the guesthouse on campus. what a pain in the ass it is to move. halfway through the program, we have to change everything and move. it gets better.I have to skip out on the excursion to the castle the next day to do laundry cuz the machines take 80 mintues to wash and 80 minutes to dry. oh my. so we stay in our own rooms that night. the next morning, Yaeji knocks on my door and says that i need to pack up all my belongings again because they are moving us into a double room so we can stay together. BUT there is no room ready for us, so we need to pack and leave our stuff there so that they can move it for us while we have our lessons for the day. we come back to our rooms later that day and our stuff isn't there and the receptionist desk is now closed. OMG. we call information and they don't speak english so he has to transfer us to somebody who can understand. we go to the office to get the key and thank goodness our stuff in our new room. so now we are finally settled into the suite, with 4 days left of school and everything is fine. this is the reason I have not had internet connection for so long cuz it took me forever to get it set up after all these events. i swear, i am like a magnet for absurdities. on a lighter note. during all this, we go on a few excursions. one to another castle and an opera at the castle that i missed the field trip of and we went to the mercedes benz factory and museum the other day. that was my favorite one i think. even though it was hot when we left and by the time we got there, there were these raindrops that felt like mini water balloons dropping on our heads. good golly. what a week. there is more but i probably forgot a lot of it. just a few more days and i am done. lectures. excursions. a final on friday and I am done! ok. love you. I'll try to post again soon