a mediocre dreamer

there's so much to say that i get sleepy when i think of how much information i have to post. you'll get a pretty little nutshell in any case. being that it's winter break and most people are back on telephone modem, i wonder how many of you are actually reading...

i'm in venice right now and i have a week more left of major travelling, then hopefully i'll be on an early flight home. it's been tough travelling with my sisters. i can go on about that forever, but i'll leave it for those who are interested enough to ask in person. paris had many terrorist threats and airport security blew up an unattended luggage at one of the arrival gates. geneva took the boot after our flight was cancelled due to a strike and munich was cut short cuz it pretty much closed down for the holidays. vienna was below freezing and i swear my ears could be used as ice cubes. we literally just stuck our drinks on the outer window sill to get them cold, and the scary thing is, they really were refreshingly icy afterwards. 4 star hotel wasn't a bad addition either. it was also my first time in real extended snowfall; pretty but also very messy. venice welcomed us with rain and a $300 hotel bill (for only 2 nights, mind you). we'll see how the rest of it goes.

there's too much to say and i'm sure i won't get it across right anyhow. i'm counting on my journal entries to remind me of everything forever (thanks jahndee, sewon, and kristy! it comes in way handy). hope everyone's christmas was magical and have a blessed new year too!

i can't seem to find a template i like and i still have yet to figure out how to add the comments option. bah.

anyhow, i'm about 5 hours away from my philosophy final and i'm blogging. apparently school in a foreign country has no spectacular motivating powers. i felt like a brick this morning when i tried to wake up. i didn't get my usual 10 hours of sleep and instead got a measley 5.... still that was plenty back in berkeley world. i'm losing my powers and i don't know how i'll survive when i get back. it's crazy how i only have a few days left in paris. i was soooo sad to leave my cute little british professor after our final. i'll be sad to leave st. michael's too, especially after everyone got in a circle last sunday to pray for the few ppl leaving, myself included.

ok, this could actually go on forever considering i haven't made up my mind/feelings about leaving and all. let's just say i'm at a crossroads and blame it on philosophy if you wanted to hear more. here's my travel schedule in case anyone is interested. feel free to drop me an email here and there cuz i'll still be checking it from time to time.

now till 12/21--paris with my sisters
12/21 till 12/23--geneva, switzerland
12/23 till 12/25--munich, germany
12/26 till 12/27--vienna, austria
12/28 till 12/30--venice, italy
12/31 till 01/01--rome, italy
01/02 till 01/03--milan, italy
01/03 till 01/06--barcelona, spain

my sister depart from there and i have a week extra to romp around europe all by my lonesome. i'll probably end up touring scotland just so i can survive and not have ppl bark at me in a foreign tongue. this blog entry has been tough because i can no longer spell due to the influence of the french language. oh man i'm gonna be majorly confused when i get back on how to say, spell, and do certain things. as if my brain isn't complex enough, i go add the inflections and idiosyncracies of another country to make it even more of an interesting web. horrah.

dank IM91: Yesterday scientists revealed that beer contains small traces of female hormones. To prove their theory, the scientists fed 100 men 12 pints of beer and observed that 100% of them gained weight, talked excessively without making sense, became emotional, and couldn't drive. No further testing is planned.
dank IM91: jus some words to leave u with....
s URF cloud 9: >:o
s URF cloud 9: that's terrible
dank IM91: :-D

hanging from the ceiling life's a mobile
spinning round with mixed feelings crazy and wild
sometimes i wanna scream out loud

everything's changing everywhere i go
all out of my control
everything's changing everywhere i go
out of what i know

-avril lavigne