hooray for internet & week almost over

so all day i have been surfing the internet and re-looking at the U of M housing website and found a lil link that brought me into a whoooooole new world! i got registered for this site and now am able to look at more postings for roommate possibilities and i may have even found one. it's preliminary, but another senior girl named emily who is currently studying in france for the semester has a place/apt for the spring/summer and needs a roomie. i'd have my own room & rent's not bad, and other features are not bad as well. this will have to be thought out and figured out, but so far one of the things i was stressed out the most about in regards to moving back home may soon be solved- or at least close to. there are many posts and that's only my first response (and even the one i liked the most!), so here's hopin.....
that's the good news.
more good news is that i had philosophy class today and generally i leave feeling utterly exhausted and have a huge headache. today, for some reason, the class including Elly our prof was just giggly and silly and off-topic alot talking about fat pigeons, Ned (smart mouth but funny kid), PEEPS (yes, the easter candy!!), and other such things. hahaha... we tried desperately to incorporate them into our talks regarding the philosopy of Aristotle and Parmenides, so class was entertaining to say the least. you folks who are helping me get this 'education', have no fear- this is not normal. but good god, it was a fun fluke!!!
also, at the end of class, Elly and i had planned to discuss my 1st midterm cuz i had questions. i even got my grade raised and she told me that is was a better grade to begin with than i had thought. i guess she grades not normally based on %s, or at least, not to normal US grading. so that was good.
3 good things so far--- wheeew! wow! :)
1 sad one is that nate is no longer in Athens and left yesterday evening to go back to Istanbul. he msg'd me via cell and now i know he's safe and sound back in his dorm. hopefully sleeping after that long bus ride!! it's good he's back to his daily routine and working again, but im still sad he's gone. only a few weeks tho, so i guess it's ok. the visit was so nice tho and we had alot of fun.
1 sad, but good at the same time thing is that i only have one week and one class left of school, not counting finals. of course there is still MUCH to be done, it only seems like a lil bit after sooo many weeks here already. for me, it's already been over 3 months since ive been home, having left end of august to travel b4 school. so in alot of ways im missing home pretty bad, but at the same time im thinking about having to leave ppl here- which is sad. ppl have already started talking about their fly-out dates and times and what theyre doing after the semester is over. so indeed departing is in the air. i think, as any departure from a place/experience like this, will be bitter-sweet.
classes are generaly going well so far, so that's good; but i guess we'll how it all ends up.
well, i guess it's time to leave the center and go home and study for all those papers, finals, etc......goody.
ciao

wow

wow- seriously. it's monday of my second to last week of classes, then finals week. that's the update on time...
nate got here last week and since then it's been really crazy and fun :) we've hung out w/some of my friends here and there, baked some monkey balls, watched kill bill vol. 2, walked around town, ate indian food (mmmmmmmmmmmmm) for thanksgiving w/8 other kids (waay fun), and generally gotten some good time to hang out. i have, of course had to still attend classes in between, do homework, and whatnot too. but nate knew that- so i set him to reading nerdy (but interesting!!!) books, or fixing my laptop, or watching movies while i work. sometimes he even makes me dinner and does the dishes when im working too.... what a nice boy........
i think that im really starting to miss aspects of home more and more as it gets closer to the end of the semester. for example,, last night when i was wondering around w/nate and we stopped at a kiosk and i looked at a TIME magazine for a few mins, i spaced out into american culture'ness, and when i snapped out of it and looked around- i think i almost had a mild heartattack from looking out at Athens again. it was weeeeird. it was like i changed countries really fast!! i cant believe how absorbed i got into that mag for just a few minutes; it's so american that i just got sucked in like into a vaccuum. i guess you get surprised at what lil things you miss....like english in print on the street. hehe...
i think that this weekend i wanna go find a monastery to visit because i havent been to one yet since being in Greece and this weekend is my last free weekend before finals, which start the following saturday. it'll be like my last horaah for an excursion out of athens. we'll see what interesting place i find. :)
well, i think it's time for dinner

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