2+4; I'm gonna reduce our nuclear weapons

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Hey gang, so sorry that these blog posts keep getting less and less interesting, but unfortunately finals are upon us. I have my first on Wednesday. Ironically the first day of the second semester at Tufts. For this exam, I get to answer fun things, such as "was Germany a civilian power (Zivilmacht auf Deutsch, ich glaube, dass das besser geht) from 1945-1990?" or "what are Ian Manners' 5 methods of norm transfer?" Such fun. We'll see how the entire thing goes. Also did I mention this is my entire grade for this class. Lolerskates, why aren't I studying right now? 

Anyways, I am trying to think of other things that I have done that have been interesting in the past week or so. I guess I do have a mildly funny story. I was over at a friend's house playing card games, and I tried to walk across their living room, which is rather small and such that you don't have a terribly clear view of their floor. Their floor is also tricky in that it isn't all at one level. Part of it abruptly drops down about a foot. So I managed to completely eat shit on said floor. Which was absolutely hysterical and Max shall never let me forget it. 

This weekend was mostly studying with a mac n cheese (nomz, it was bacon and bbq mac n cheese) and hair-cutting party on Friday night, another Spanish dinner on Saturday night, and then dinner at my friend Lasse's on Sunday with delicious chicken and Norwegian Christmas cookies and Aquavit. Which sounds like I had a life or something, but really there was a lot of pre-Klausur hermitting. 

In other news, I have an internship for next semester with this group called Vivat Lingua, which is a language school in Tübingen. I'm going to be part of their English team. 

And then finally the fun stuff. After this blog goes through the "oh my God, finals" phase, it's going to get a lot more fun. Namely because it's going to be in the "TWO MONTHS OFF TIME TO TRAVEL" phase. Which means that this will get to be a fun little travel blog. Thus far, there are relatively concrete plans in the works for: a trip to northern Italy for Carnival, a week-long roadtrip around Eastern Europe (Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic as of right now), a trip to Belgium for my friend Louise's birthday, a trip to Ireland (Dublin and Galway) for Paddy's Day, and a trip to Norway to hang out with Lasse and go hiking. Furthermore there's been talk of trips to Switzerland, Spain, Scotland, and Sweden. (Weird, all S names.) But since there's two months, there may be even more in the works. So have faith, beloved blog-readers (if you exist, I like to think I have a loving public to talk to), this blog will cease to be about me dying of finals and other schoolwork very, very soon! 

So with that, I must say bis später for now. Studying and then sleep calls. And to all you Tufts kids, viel Spaß beim ersten Tag des Kurses! :)

Oh and here's a good ole' German grammar joke. So silly.