7 Weeks??

I just counted, and I can't believe I'll be home in 7 weeks! There is no one emotion to characterize how I feel about that...I'll definitely be happy to see people again and to resume my 'normal' education, but I think that I might face a bit of reverse culture shock...but then again, I think there will be some overcompensation of the things I miss (mainly Pop-Tarts, Wii, and short walks to class) that will allow me to easily adjust.

So.....one nice thing about class here is that I pretty much know my entire homework load for the rest of the semester...unfortunately, it's a LOT because I need to finish about 4 months of school in about 2.5 months, as the German academic year is very different compared to the US. Here's what I have so far...

Innovation Economics: 1 paper (10-12 pages), perhaps a test or two

Post-colonialism: 1 550 page book (half finished...), 1 450 page book, a ten minute presentation, and a research paper of currently unkown length

Translation: Two translations for each class, One translated article, Midterm test, Final Test, Final Project

Nationalism & Ethnic Conflict: Unknown amount of reading (at least 500 pages), 10-15 page research paper

Conflict & Conflict Resolution: 10-12 page research paper (sense a pattern?), Oral Examination

So...lot's to do to keep me busy....lots and lots to do...at least I have four day weekends where I can spend pretty much every waking moment doing homework!!!!

I bought a ticket to London recently to see two of my roommates (Mike O. and Justin K.) I'm pretty excited! I'm going Nov. 20-23rd!

I'm just going to try this out once...at the beginning of my stay here, I tried to keep track of all of my expenses....this did not work, it's simply impossible. But for one week, I'm going to try to work really hard to keep track of what I spend, and what I spend it on, just to see how it turns out!

That's all for now. Tschüss!

Dave