Yeah, my umbrella finally bit the dust today. It was a long time coming. It really doesn't rain here as much as you probably think, but the past few days have been super windy and there's been lots of rain on and off. So it was only a matter of time. RIP my dear old friend.
Anyhow. I am in spring break mode. A week from today is St. Patrick's Day and I am suuuuuuper pumped. Molly Wasgatt will be here with me for a few days and I'm really excited to see another Beloiter and show them about how my life is here. St. Patrick's should be a giant freaking party and then it just gets better...a week from tomorrow, I will be on a plane to Freiburg to stay with Emily for a few days!! Two of my best friends here, Siobhan and Jerad, are going with me. Then we're taking a train to Amsterdam for three days. Next Jerad and I fly to Spain (Madrid, Toledo, and Barcelona) to see my friend Hilary from the film festival. 10 days of whirlwind happy wandering.
Otherwise I am really missing my Beloit boys in particular. I only have two consistent guy friends here, Jerad and Philip. Otherwise I'm with girls constantly, Kate my housemate from Houston and my neighbors Siobhan and Jenna. I love them and we have an amazing time together, but really...I miss my boys from home. I could use some really inappropriate, awkward humor every once in a while.
Some random things that have happened/I've observed lately:
--Irish families really are huge..I've met a guy with 5 brothers and a sister, a guy with 27 nieces and nephews (???!), and a girl with six brothers. As Philip explains it, "It rains all the bloody time. So what are you supposed to do when you're stuck inside? Have sex."
--There are no squirrels here. This confuses me. I told Philip that even Chicago is full of squirrels and he was very incredulous. Another golden Philip quote: "I've heard that the grey squirrel is just an invasive species. Just like the accordian."
--Everyone likes to ask me about the primaries. A lot of the older generation backs Hilary. I've heard that the underlying reason for many of them is that Bill was really influential in the Good Friday Agreement that helped put a stop to the violence in the North.
Sorry I spent so much of this post on umbrellas and squirrels. I love you guys a ton. Be well.
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Come to Cracow! There'll be more awkward humor than you know what to do with!
I can also relate to the primaries though, every English speaker I meet wants to talk about them, fortunately, they're almost all for Barack.
The Berlin Lexia group was here this weekend and a number of them kept talking Ted Leo and I kept referencing you're fortunate situation, so know you're in my envious thoughts for that and other reasons (mostly dealing with you not having to learn another language and fucking hard as Polish).
Lots of people here seem to think that the primaries are the genneral election. I've had a lot of conversations where people ask me if I think Clinton or Obama is going ot be the next president only to get blank looks when I say that whoever wins will still have to beat McCain.
Aww I miss squirrels too. We pretty much just have tons of stray dogs, cats, and children wandering into our classrooms all the time (well, the dogs don't usually wander into our classrooms. I'm dead serious about the cats and children though).
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