Why do you always wish you are where you're not?

Kermit the Frog You scored 56% Organization, 56% abstract, and 72% extroverted!

This test measured 3 variables. First, this test measured how organized you are. Some muppets like Cookie Monster make big messes, while others like Bert are quite anal about things being clean. Second, this test measured if you prefer a concrete or an abstract viewpoint. For the purposes of this test, concrete people are considered to gravitate more to mathematical and logical approaches, whereas abstract people are more the dreamers and artistic type. Third, this test measured if you are more of an introvert or an extrovert. By definition, an introvert concentrates more on herself and an extrovert focuses more on others. In this test an introvert was somebody that either tends to spend more time alone or thinks more about herself. You are mostly organized, both concrete and abstract, and more extroverted. Here is why are you Kermit the Frog. You are both somewhat organized. You have a good idea where you put things and you probably keep your place reasonably clean. You aren't totally obsessed with neatness though. Kermit is also reasonably tidy. He'll even dress up for interviews. You both are sometimes concrete and sometimes abstract thinkers. Kermit spends a lot of his time as a reporter collecting facts, but he is also the author of the dreamy song "The Rainbow Connection." You have a good balance in your life. You know when to be logical at times, but you also aren't afraid to explore your dreams and desires... within limits of course. You are both extroverts. Kermit gets along with everyone. Sure a few folks annoy him, but that's just because they are annoying. Kermit likes to meet new people when he does his job as a street reporter. You definitely enjoy the company of others, and you don't have problems meeting new people... in fact you probably look forward to it. You are willing to take charge when necessary or work as part of a team. Oh, and in case you were wondering, Kermit starred on Sesame Street years before The Muppet Show. The other possible characters are Oscar the Grouch Big Bird Snuffleupagus Ernie Elmo Cookie Monster Grover The Count Guy Smiley Bert If you enjoyed this test, I would love the feedback! Also if you want to tell me your favorite Sesame Street character, I can total them up and post them here. Perhaps your choice will win!

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 30% on Organization You scored higher than 40% on concrete-abstra You scored higher than 70% on intro-extrovert

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SCORE! Kermit's the best one!

i now know the true meaning of the terrible twos... uuggghhh. last night was... fun, awkward, but fun.

who came up with the name bon-gone anyway? i hope the not-so-bonfire is going to be fun tonight... i'll prolly go. meh.

it still amazes me how, even after 4 years of doing air guitar, people still do all the petty shit to mess it up. What ever, i'm SO wearing a balerina costume to school tomorrow.

the left side of my mouth is numb. I think i've been chewing on my tongue, but i can't actually tell... because it's numb too.

so much homework and i dont even want to start. i guess i sorta have to.

FOUR DAY WEEKEND THANK GOD!!! ahhhh relaax... so i'm supposed to sew costumes today, i dont even know what we're making, probably the fairy costumes... should be long and grueling.

Start with 100%, and take away 1% for everything you've done/that's happened to you on this list.

i got 58% so i'm half good i guess... i've had a half an exciting life? i dunno...

Smoked.
Drank alcohol.
Cried when someone died.
Been drunk.
Had sex.
Been to a concert.
Given a handjob/gotten a handjob.
Given a blowjob/gotten a blowjob.
Been verbally sexually harassed.
Verbally sexually harassed somebody.
Felt someone up and/or been felt up.
Laughed so hard something came out of your nose.
Cheated on a boyfriend/girlfriend before.
Been cheated on by a boyfriend/girlfriend.
Been to prom.
Cried at school.
Gotten lost in a WalMart or a department store.
Went streaking.
Given a lap dance.
Had someone of the opposite sex in your room.
Had someone of the opposite sex sleep over.
Slept over at someone of the opposite sex's house.
Kissed a stranger.
Hugged a stranger.
Went scuba diving.
Driven a car.
Gotten an xray.
Hit by a car.
Had a party.
Done drugs.
Played strip poker.
Got paid to strip for someone.
Ran away from home.
Broken a bone.
Eaten sushi.
Bought porn.
Watched porn.
Made porn.
Had a crush on someone of the same sex.
Been in love.
Frenched kissed.
Laughed so hard you cried.
Cried yourself to sleep.
Laughed yourself to sleep.
Stabbed yourself.
Shot a gun.
Trash talked someone and then acted like their best friend the next day.
Watched TV for 9 consecutive hours.
Been online for 9 consecutive hours.
Watched an animal die.
Watched a person die.
Had sex and/or messed around somewhere with atleast 1 person present.
Pranked somebody.
Put somebody in the hospital.
Snuck into someone's room and/or your own room after being out.
Kissed somebody of the same sex.
Dressed punk.
Dressed goth.
Dressed preppy.
Been to a motocross race.
Avoided somebody.
Been stalked.
Stalked someone.
Met a celebrity.
Played an instrument.
Ridden a horse.
Cut yourself.
Bungee jumped.
Ding dong ditched somebody.
Been to a wild party.
Got caught stealing something.
Kicked a guy in the balls.
Stolen a boyfriend/girlfriend from a friend.
Went out with your friend's crush.
Got arrested.
Been pregnant.
Babysat.
Been to another country.
Started your house on fire.
Had an encounter with a ghost.
Donated your hair to cancer patients.
Been asked out by someone that you never though you'd to be asked out by.
Cried over a member of the opposite sex.
Had a boyfriend/girlfriend for over 3 months.
Sat on your ass all day.
Ate a whole carton of ice cream all by yourself.
Had a job.
Gotten cut from a sports team.
Been called a whore.
Danced like a whore.
Been mistaken for a celebrity.
Been in a car accident.
Been told you have beautiful eyes.
Been told you have beautiful hair.
Raped somebody.
Danced in the rain.
Been rejected.
Walked out of a restaurant without paying.
Punched someone/slapped someone in the face.

well, i officially didn't actually study for Med bio, just did the notes (that are fucking required!!) and took the test... i did well! my plan is working... slack off more and still do well, sounds good. God i miss speaking german regularly, i didn't really realize it till i was with the rotary kids this weekend. I wasn't really looking forward to going, but it turned out to be good for me and i realized how most of the people there are really cool. So many people changed SO MUCH and a few... (mostly the ones that i still dont like) haven't changed at all *cough shauna cough* what ever, she can stay crazy if she really wants, but you would think that after all the crazy shit that happened and the fact that the people didn't really like her that much (by the sound of it at least) that she'd tone in down a bit and LEARN from the fricken expirience instead of just coming home early. I can't wait for homecoming week, not because of the dance, or even the game, but because i know i can slack off to the max... heh heh heh no to little homework!! yes... screw actually TRYING to get a date. boys are lame. especially ones that dont like to dance.

i hate messing with all the crap in my room, it really depresses me. Especially when i find the book that my first host mom gave me to remember them when i left... man ist es schwer. ich vermisse nicht nur meine Freunde, aber auch die ganze Deutschlands. ich muss meine Hausaufgaben machen.

wow, i really don't update much, and honestly i dont care either. sorry if you feel neglected.

god, i just wrote and e-mail to Hauke, and he wanted to know about school and stuff, and seriously, i started thinking about all of the stuff that i still have to do and how hard im going to have to work, and i got my self all freaked out again that i'm not going to be able to get it all done on time or well enough or something.... i have to stop doing this to myself. That was a really long sentance, Mrs. Noteboom would be ashamed im just sure. Well i guess i should get started on all of the stuff Mr. Clarkson set for us to get done... i'm not so sure about that guy as a teacher, honestly. A quick quote to demostrate a bit of the feeling... "He practically started yelling at us today because we couldn't answer questions on stuff he hasn't taught us yet!!" or something to that point. We took my brother to college today and he took me on a tour of U of O it was really nice... i could see myself ending up there, even if i can't really picture myself living there. I really wish that i was just in College and i didn't have to worry about admissions or money or scholarships or anything like that and i could just study and get on with life... i think this year is going to be stressful. I'm just glad i'm back in gymnastics, that might just keep me sane this year. i can't wait to get in the gym! maybe i should check out the material for AP Gov. i dont honestly know if i have time for it, what with the correspondence i SHOULD be doing, but haven't even really looked into yet... gotte get on that too. Ok, homework time on my saturday night, sounds like this could become a trend too. stupid school.

it's just a pesto-ramma at my house, a pesto making fiesta... olive oil, cheese, garlic, nuts and especially basil are all over the house... literally. the basil and the garlic are actually home grown, so it's sort of cool... the odd thing is that we're making, like POUNDS AND POUNDS of the stuff, my dad loves it so much he makes like 10 tupperware tubs full to last the winter, and we give it away to family and friends too. And appropriately, our dinner tonight also included pesto... it's good stuff, i just can't get over how much my dad insists on making, i mean we can't even get through it all in a year, i think we gave away 4 or 5 tubs this summer just so we'd be done with the old and ready for the new... i think my dad should start himself a pesto business, go for his passion... he just said it would be too much work. yeah well, he's gunna have to fill his time with something and i'm just hoping he won't live on the computer day and night... maybe he's trying to make up for lost time, not having had a computer as a child... there's a random guy from turkey talking to me about the weather... maybe it would be best if i got off line... yeah...

so... school isn't suicidal bad... yet... just kidding!! no, it's really not that bad except art class, but i think i might be able to switch into Lab's class anyway... so yeah, incase i haven't screamed it in your face yet, i have WALSH as my math teacher and there's like 10 people in the class and i LITTERALLY dont know anyone's name... i recognise 2 people's faces, but that's it. ok, we're in Stever's class room right? that think fits like 25 people BARELY and it's like less than half full... i sit at a table all alone... fuck. angry librarians shouldn't become teachers, esspecially art teachers... oh well, i feel better now that i've complained a bit... oh and i'm looking forward to tomorrow, i have MALLON for math!! and im only in fucking Algebra 2 because i wasn't there last year so people will be like, oh look! there's the DUMB senior!! haha those little bastards... i'll show them... well im getting all bitter and i haven't even had the class, so on a lighter note, i will be 18 on monday... the first monday back at school.... oh well, i'm still looking forward to it.

oh man i'm bored.... i'm making myself stay home and be bored in the hopes that some where along the line i'll get so unbelievably bored that i will actually clean and organize my room... hasn't worked so well so far. Although i DID get to see Andy make "moon shoes" and catch the moment in a couple of pictures and a video... it's pretty funny, i dunno, something about my brother taping springs to his shoes has a bit of a comical air about it... i gotta watch that again... hey, i'm not bored anymore! but i still need to clean my room..... shit.

wow, long time since i've said anything. Odd, how i have nothing to do, but yet never write anything. coincedence? i dont believe in them... so yeah, so far i've finished my U.S. History first semester woo-hoo i've gotten my permit renewed... read half of Little Women, and actually like it lol went on vacation for a few days with Marie and saw southern Oregon University, not a bad school if i say so myself... now im just trying to figure out if im going to have shitty classes senior year or not... oh, wait i already know! yes, yes i will since i turned in my forcasting LAST WEEK. greeeaaaatttt.... oh yeah, and i start painting my house tomorrow. my summer is just SO FUN. i want to talk to mike!! i can't wwwaiiittt to talk to you! man, i love it when my german friends talk to me on ICQ out of no where, i switch languages, and as soon as i'm really getting back into it, they have to go... lol it's 11:15 pm and it's 8:15 am there, insane, she was going to school. yeah, so any who... ich will zurueck, ich will zurueck, ich will zurueck nach westerland! oder Schleswig Holstein, es ist mir egal... Mike, ich habe so ein Angst dass ich Deutsch vergessen wird... bitte, bitte nicht! ja, so... guten nacht. night everybody!

hey, not long now till im back, just wanted to say, 6th of July, im BACK!! im excited, but not really looking forward to saying goodbye... sorry i never finished the whole Euro tour thing, its just it takes so long to write all of it, and i do realise the easy answer is just to not write everything, but then its just not as good, and i have no time anyway, so what ever. looking forward to seeing everybody again!

Yeah, so... where did i leave off? emmm.... well i guess i’ll go off about how stupid yesterday was... and how stupid i was too, man i felt dumb... ok so i Wednesday, as i’ve already written, i had to go to Schleswig to give a half-assed version of my rotary speech to Ulf (my rotary counselor) so, there were many a frantic phone call between Memo, Silvia and I... most involving Silvia or my self exlcaiming MAN ULF!! at least once... finally it was decided that i would go to Silvias house the next morning instead of school (our class was writing a 4 hour test and i was told i didn’t have to be there) so i have to actually get up earlier than normal (not very much, but still earlier) so that i’ll have time to walk down to the bus station, then my host mom changes the plans, and says Jens will drive you! great, i save bus fare, but i woke up earlier and hussled my butt around all morning for nothing... naturally we couldnt have decided that LAST night... so i get to take some time off because i was ready about a half hour too early... and my host mom tells me something, and what i understand is that she wants to pick me up from the bus station in Flensburg, so i should call, and if shes not here, leave a message... i was a little confused, because normally she is opposed to driving me anywhere, but whatever, i was still groggy so i didnt bother to ask... then we drove to Silvias. Silvia and i „work“ all morning (this involves more calling to memo and Ulf and a very large candybar... we needed support, we knew it would be a rough day oh! and a WHOLE lot of complaining) finally, we finish our projects about two minutes before we have to leave for the bus (oh yes, and mine has errors, how nice! especially because it is already burned on a CD so i have to waste another one for this stupid presentation!!). So, we catch out next bus which (according to Memo) arrives at the bus station at the same time that our next bus is to leave... we sort of got the bus driver to say that hed try to make the trip a bit faster so we would, and he did. We get there in time, and we wander around the bus station looking for the right platform thingy... memo was wrong... the bus did NOT go at the time that our other bus was to get there... it went 5 minutes BEFORE we got there... so we had an hour to waste, so we just sort of walked around Flensburg, stopped at the library for a minute and then went back to wait. We catch the bus at 3:15 and our tickets cost €9.08 for both ways... we cursed Ulf under our breath and took our seats. the bus drive was normal, well as normal as bus drives with silvia get... and we arrived in Schleswig, we only had to ask for directions once before getting to Ulfs house.... did i mention that Ulf is the head guy at a house for mentally disabled people and therefore lives right next door? well he does and when we walked by, a man came up to us and shook our hands, he proceeded to show us a flower, have us sniff it, mumble quite a bit about god knows what in german worse than mine.... and show us his house key.... oh, and shake his hand twice more, well this made another man come over to converse, and Silvia got a little freaked out i think. She wanted to get to Ulfs house, but the men (and they were really nice, there wasnt any hint of a threatening situation) didnt want us to go, they wanted to talk! Silvia just kept repeating that we have to go to Ulf Brakkelmann! and when we finally got ahead of the men silvia got behind me and just kept saying accellerate! accellerate! haha... it was just funny, the way she said it i guess. So we get there and Ulf brings us in and asks us what we want to drink, and do we want cake... blah blah blah.... so we get that all settled, then he asks us how we plan to do our presentations? We made powerpoint presentations and i have a film silvia replies. Ulf: and how do you plan to present that? Silvia: we have a CD Ulf: do you have a computer to play that with (Well Jesus christ, i guess we overlooked a bit there eh??) my computer doesn’t have powerpoint blah blah blah blah (oh god.... please do not make me redo this with paper and glue....) Silvia: most computers can play that anyway, even if they dont have powerpoint Ulf: really? blah blah blah blah blah! (i think hes a little long winded, or just a little confused, i dont know which...) so eventually we break out his laptop, and we try our CD THANK GOD IT WORKS! so Silvia shows him her little video and he really really likes it. then we move on to mine, and we get to like the second or third page when some random technical guy comes in and we have to mess with the computer and shut it down etc.... so then when they’re done Ulf just HAS to show the italy video to this guy, because it’s just SO funny!! then Ulf gets a phone call or something and has to go for 10 minutes... so we wander down to memos room for something he forgot and then he decides to show us a bit from the 3 films he has, and he has to decide one for the presentation. So when Ulf comes back the videos are still playing so he starts to talk to memo about the videos and which one memo wanted to play and how Ulf thought that was a bad idea because there was speaking and no one can understand it because it s spanish and no, you cant do subtitles, because it would be too complicated and hard, so just use that one blah blah blah.... we dont have time i want this to go well blah blah blah... for quite some time... the dumb thing is, this meeting wasnt only for Silvia and i, it was also for memo... memo lives with Ulf, and Ulf actually told memo, i dont have time tomorrow or the rest of the weekend to look at this, this is the only possible time. WELL JESUS CHRIST! WHY IS HE THE EXCHANGE OFFICER GUY IF HE DOESNT EVEN HAVE A MAXIMUM OF TEN MINUTES TO SEE MEMOS FILM?!?!?!?! ahh.... he should really stop messing with the exchange students, he has no time for us, i honestly think he communicates with memo through post it notes. Anywho, then we came back to my presentation i go through it, he points out the mistakes we made while translating it so quickly this morning and i noticed that i pointed to the wrong county when saying where i live.... sigh... but he was just like and youll say things to these pictures and have note cards right?? oh lord... i mean really what does he expect? me to have some random picture on the screen and me to say absolutely nothing to it?! so i said yes, of course. his „frau“ (we still arent sure if theyre really married or not, so i dont know if i should call her his wife or not...) came home in the middle of my thing, and now Ulf HAS to show her Silvias video because its SO GREAT!!! i say this because first of all, Silvia kind of hates that video and wasnt sure if she should show it or not, and second of all because we spent most of our time looking at that bloody video than virtually anything else! i really dont like him... so then we left for the bus station to get back (of course now he tells us that he will drive us aaallll the way home, now that we already had bought a two way ticket....) so we get our bus and it was... interesting, there were many odd people on that bus... the man in front of us kept talking to himself in strange barley audible voices so at first i thought silvia was going insane when she kept looking all around and asking me if i hear „that“ .... so when we get to Flensburg, i call my host mom, just like im supposed to.... or so i thought and left a message because she wasnt there. i think i waited for about 45 minutes thinking i want to take a bus... but i already left the stupid message and if shes coming to get me right now it will only make things worse. so i stayed put until my host dad called me and asked me what was going on and he came and picked me up. i felt so stupid. i was NOT supposed to wait for my host parents to pick my up, i was to call if i got lost or stuck some where. SIGH so i get home and my host mom is a bit... i dont even really know how to put it, strong i guess... so i already feel like shit from my cold (oh yeah, i have a cold again did i happen to mention that?) and i had a headache undoubtedly from ulf and then my host mom asks me Barbara! why did you sit around at ZOB?! why didnt you take the bus??? so i said im going to bed, i had a shitty day, and i went. man, it was just... everything building up on top of each other and i just hate that. im all right now though. i should really write more about the euro tour, i know, but i dont think i can bring myself to type on this keyboard anymore, it reminds me a lot of kristis old kepboard... marie knows what im talking about... some other time, maybe even later tonight because i have absolutely nothing to do.

Ok, so now that im home and i actually have something that i should be doing other than this, i’ll do an entry... man im so lazy i dont even know how im going to get through my senior year... best not to think about it i guess. So... euro tour... where were we is the most common question i’ve been asked other than did you have a good time, and obviously i did... so! Berlin to Postdam (for the afternoon) to Dresden to some boat for 3 and a half hours that took us to a big rock to climb... ok it was pretty but my best friends on the trip are afraid of heights and were kind of freaking out the whole time... back to Dresden because a stupid kid (he’s just not a nice guy... ask anyone)left his passport in the hotel and then on the the czech boarder where we got to wait 2 hours because two kids didn’t have permission from the police to be living in Germany or something like that.... then on to Prague (you can tell we had fun that day... lol nah it wasnt that bad). Then from Prague to Vienna to Venice to Munich to Nürnberg to Weimar and then back to Berlin and home again. (MMMMM peanutbutter and nutella together are SOOO GOOOOOOD! wow.) So, the first day was spent getting to Berlin, we got our train at 11 in the morning (we being Giovanna Mairia (both from Brazil, whom i love) and Katie the newbie from South Africa), and traveled about 4 and a half hours to Berlin in a compartment with a danish couple that laughed at us when we sang, but i think they enjoyed our company... i didnt have very much fun though because i was sick and was coughing a whole lot at the time, oh and the splitting headache really didnt help. so then we get out at the Berlin Zoological garden haubahnhof (main station... thing) with really shitty instructions to the hotel, of course, we were expected to get there alone, and honestly i think that wsa their way of saying, if you cant get your ass to the hotel on your own, then you might as well go home now (we were on our own a lot and we had to know where everything was and figure out a way to get there and get back with out the rotary, even if you were totally smashed....) so we got help from the train ticket man who printed out a very clear paper on which trains we had to take (train and then a different street trolly that we almost died trying to catch due to the fact that id never been around them before and almost got squished by one, but i wasnt alone in my ignorance at least....). so we got our train and the street car... at frist it was almost empty... but sadly that didn’t last long, so you can picture us, about to start a fist fight with a pushy woman with a baby carraige that made Giovanna and Katie stand and me, shoved into the corner trapped between the HUGE suitcases (man was that fun...), a seat that seemed to be barfed on and a little plastic divider thing. so then we make half of the people who were unbelieveably crammed in by the door and the pushy baby carrage woman get out of the trolly so that we could get our enormous suitcases out, im sure they cheered when we got out... then we promtly began to argue about which way to walk until the man we had crowded near told us to go right, i just love strangers! lol So we lugg our suitcases along some street for our „5 minute“ walk (that was so NOT a 5 minute walk... maybe if you were Opra, speed walking withOUT a huge suitcase and a horrible headache it would have been, but that just wasn’t the case). We had to have another stranger help us along the way, because Giovanna wanted to fight what everyone else seemed to think haha. We got there early, but my head was REALLY REALLY hurting by this time, so i layed down in our room for a little while, got some tylenol and then when i was feeling better i went back down stairs to greet all of the exchange students whose names id forgotten... we greeted and went up and down to our rooms and the lobby all evening until dinner where, Giovanna insisted i sit with her instead of the American group (we all, sort of naturally split off into fairly exclusive country groups, theres the latinos, mexico, agrentina, brazil, italy, ecuador etc. the southies/canada Aussies, New Zealanders, South Africans, canadians and some americans, then my... sort of group, the americans, with a few canadians mixed in for variety. although at the last trip i had gotten really fed up with how dumb and mean some of those people were, so i really didn’t want to hang out with them exclusively anyway... i never really felt like i fit in there. Although, i am happy to say, those clicks had broken up a bit by the end and everybody just hung out with who they wanted and had fun, ahh world communty!). So i set down my phone at my place so people would know that i was sitting there and went with Giovanna to get some food from the buffet, well i was a bit ahead of Gio, but when i got to my place, i saw a few girls talking and gesturing at my phone, then the one standing, pushes it out of the way and sits down. well, i just walked up, took my phone, said excuse me (yeah, she looked a bit embarassed hahaha!) and walked away, looking for another place by someone whose name i knew and hopefully liked... well since people hand managed to smush too many people at about 4 tables (we were 51 kids on this trip to give you an idea...) so there were none, Giovanna came up, saw what happened and got me a new seat across from her. Julia, a brazilian from the other district was sitting next to her, and seeing as wed already spent over 4 hours together in the train, Julia had a lot more new stuff to say to Giovanna... and of course she wanted to speak Portugese, and although giovanna told her to speak german so that i could understand, Julia just kept going and soon i was staring at my plate and Giovanna was lost in a paradise of portugese stories... there was a girl from mexico to my right and she asked me (in spanish) if i spoke spanish, i said i could understand a little bit, but not speak... that was all that dinner said in a language other than english or spanish that i understood. so you might understand that i was not all that happy that evening, not to mention i was missing Markus and even considered, if i wasn’t better by the next day, then id just go home and maybe theyd give me most of my money back and i could buy a car or something... but the next day my headache was gone and my coughing was a ton better, so i was good to go. That morning we got up, got dressed and got breakfast (by this time id located the good friend id made at the last meeting and had someone to sit with) and got on the bus. We did a little bit of touring with the bus and then went to the Reichstag (parlamentary building) and waiting for about a half hour to get inside, walked around on top of the building (the only place we were allowed to go other than the foyer with all the security checks... hence the wait) for quite some time... an hour maybe? took too many pictures, since id been there before and i already had too many pictures of it, i now have FAR too many... so i had fun walking around with Mike and Ben, i used to think Ben was a huge jerk, but i learned to love him on euro tour haha... so yeah, we walked around, mike got freaked out a few times because of the heights, and ben and me going over and leaning over them lol... then we walked to a monument for russian soldiers i believe (the monument was all in russian so i dont think very many of us got much out of it... but it looked kinda cool) it may have been russian soldiers that died in some battle in WWII or just all of WWII... something like that anyway. So then we were off to Brandonburger Tor... we stood there and stared at that for awhile, some people went off to starbucks and the rest took more pictures... then it was off for a walk around the outside of Berlins nicest hotel and then passed a new huge WWII memorial that sadly wasnt quite finished (MAN I HATE ULF! i have to wake up at 6 to get over to Silvias to work on our presentations and he gives us ONE DAY OF WARNING!!! MENSCH! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... hah at least i dont have to go with the rest of my poor class and write a german test for FOUR hours! suckers....) anyway... we keep walking to Potsdamer platz... well the trainstation for it and then they set us free for lunch/shopping (samantha aka sam and i ate subway.... i looooooove subway...) and when we all get back we walk on to check point charlie with sam and i leading the way, which was a bit odd, because all of the rotary people were at the back or lost in the middle somewhere... but we both knew the way from taking our class trips there, we didnt have to stay and listen to the lecture they gave on it because it was obvious that wed been there before, so we got extra free time, and spent is getting postcards and a tee shirt... then back to the bus and on to the Berliner DOM. We got out at another place, and they actually told us, just get out and take pictures, thats the only thing we have time for! so thats what we did... i have no idea what that place was.... then back into the bus, we drove to a park, got 20 minutes free time, where mostly you were supposed to pee, but Sam and i went and took pictures by this cool fountain, then we walked to Berliner DOM, from the outside, you think, wow thats big... but i guess ive always thought, ist a church, youve seen one, youve seen them all... this trip changed my mind.... at least about old european chruches, the same still pretty much goes for most churches back in the US... so we walk in, and the doors were real big, but i was just sort of out of it i think, not even really paying attention, the foyer wasnt ornate or anything, and the rotary people grouped us, told us to be quiet and let us in. i think my mouth honestly dropped open. There was an orchestra and a chior and this girl had a really beautiful voice and she was using it. The room was really large with a huge dome on top and paintings and beautiful stained glass windows, if i could go to that church and hear music like that every sunday, i think i might actually go. it was litterally breath taking, i wish i could have stayed longer. the accustics there too! man, ive never heard better. it makes me want to go look at the pictures... anyway, when they told us it was time to go, i reluctantly left my pew and we walked down the stairs and into the crypt... that was actually really cool there were so many old coffins from waaayy back when and little teeny ones too, all really ornate and stuff, i think one even had a big ship on it or something, others had crowns... memo scared the crap out of me in there though, i took a picture and as soon as i had it he grabbed my shoulders and said boo or something, but man! i about crapped my pants. then we spent practically more time in the freaking gift shop than the actual church... then we walked back to the bus and went back to the hotel for dinner, i dont remember where i sat, but it must not have been to exciting or traumatizing or i prolly would have remembered. Afterwards Mairia went to the store and got handy cards for our cell phone... and mine was so dumb. i had tried to get a new one that morning from the bank, but a message came up saying something like ask your privider or something so i wasnt sure, i spent the whole day trying to get it to tell me if it worked or not, but at dinner it was like you have 2 euro! greeaaat... so i went and got another with mairia, when we got back and put the money on the stupid phone, ist tells you how much you have right? you have 51 euro! JESUS! WHAT HAVE I DONE! well, i just told myself, now i wont have to buy another card for the rest of my time in germany and i can send all the sms my little heart desires... it’s um.... 22 days later... ive used 10 of it lol guess ill just have to sms day and night, NO RESTRAINT!! haha anyway... Giovanna and Mairia invited me out, but i wasnt dressed and i needed to take a shower, and we were in a hotel and ive been taking showers with a teaspoon of water for a long time now, so i was not going to rush, i was going to use as much hot water as i could stand... ok not really, but i didnt take a short shower, and by the time i got out, they were no where to be found, and in all honesty, i was a little relieved... they party hardy, and i was tired, i was already all spiffed up though, so i looked around for them a bit, didnt find them, so i went and found sam and we had a nice long talk. i went back to my room and Katie was back, i had apparently left all of the doors open, because i thought i was just going to go down the hall and look for mairia and giovanna, but ended up in sams room for about an hour... so i got in bed, and got kept awake by giovanna, mairia and Julia (she refused to sleep in the room she got assigned to because the girls were weird, so she insisted in dragging her mattress to our room and sleeping there) getting ready for bed. well i guess ill stop for now, because theres just so much to tell that my fingers will be bleeding if i try to type it all now. betcha cant wait for the next installment! a big rock and a 4 hour boat ride and a 2 hour wait at the boarder!! WEEEE!!!! lol

hey mike, if you're reading this... guess what? i have to give my rotary presentation TOMORROW for my councelor, and he just decided to tell us TODAY!!! i haven't started it! even though i can just take my old presentation and translate it and make it more professional... still im not too cool with that... man i hate my councelor! y are you pissed? miss you!! -Babs