| | FYI I wrote this like a week ago, I just forgot to post it:
Hey you! So today it looked rainy outside, which was great, cause as you know, I LOVE rainy days, it makes me happy! I had been up for a few hours already cause I got a wonderful phone call at 6 am from a dear friend, anyways, so I headed down to campus.
It’s about a 10-15 min. walk down to campus, and although the skies looked threatening I didn’t take an umbrella. A: Because I don’t have one and B: Because I’m too cheap to buy one C: Because I really don’t mind walking in the rain!
Well, that was before a few minutes into the walk, the skies opened up and God rained out his heart on me! I mean we’re talking GALLONS here! AHH, I have truly never been so wet in my life! So there I am crossing the street, soaked to the bone, when a car came by and covered me in muddy water. It was great.... So much for looking cute today!
Then, after my excrutiating three hour class staring at a computer I went for coffee with my two wonderful Polish friends Tom and Asia and my Italian friend Marco. Tom was telling us about how he went to work (illegally) in London this summer at a hotel to better his English. He told me that ever since Poland joined the European Union last year there have been floods of immigrant workers to England.
Anyways, Tom went on to tell us of a how one weekend there was a huge summit of the English parliament held at that hotel and one of the seminars was a talk about what to do about the huge wave of illegal Polish workers and how to stop it. He said his boss at the hotel was ready to die as all the guys that were serving lunch (Tom and his buddies) to all these English officials were that very demographic! Jajaja
Then Marco went on to tell me that there are tons of illegal Chinese immigrants in Milan, and that since 1950 no one has died there. I didn’t understand him, and thought it might have been a language barrier thing…but no, he said it right, basically when someone dies they bury them quickly and pass the passport on to someone else! Oh, the joys and fun of globalization! I love it!
OK, so here is the plan. I am going to London for five days and four nights the first week of December with like 10 other girlfriends. Then, I was invited that next weekend to a conference in Berlin “Bringing the World Home”. It is put together by a non-profit bi-partisan organization called Americans for an Informed Democracy and they pay for my accommodation, conference fees and food (I had to submit resume and stuff, but I got it!!)
!! Anyways, as there are vacation days throughout that week, I am going to head up there early and take a day trip to visit a nearby concentration camp and explore Berlin! So…if any of y’all have gone to these places or have recommendations, friends, ANYTHING let me know! Grandpa, I know you like itenaries, so as soon as I put together something rough, I’ll email it to you!
Then, I’ll be in Rome for three days leading up to Christmas and it’s to Stuggart for Christmas! OK, so I am VERY blessed! More later....
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