I feel like I am 19. Well, perhaps that isn't correct. I don't actually feel like I am 19 since I am no longer as spry and limber as I once was now that I am edging ever closer to the big three naught. But as I look around me I see 19 year old things. You see, I am living in a dormitory for the summer.
I always knew there was a small piece of me that pushed for graduate school in an effort to recapture some idyllic feeling of college, but I never thought that the closest I would get would be living in a dorm again. Loud parties at night that I can hear through the window that keep me up? Check. Cheap furniture? Check. Empty beer bottles on the bookshelf? Check. Crappy floors? Check. Common areas that are just a little too common? Check. Thankfully I have my own bathroom and shower and have no roommate.
So I journeyed forth from the posh environs of Baron's Court in London to a dorm in the lovely Black Forest town of Freiburg, home to the famous University and now me--at least for two months. I have not had much time to explore the city, but did go into town to buy a pair of pants (oh and how German they are, too!). I will have pictures up as soon as I get them. I haven't really met anyone yet and am disappointed in my class level quite a bit. Hopefully both of these situations will soon be rectified. Tomorrow is a holiday here, Corpus Christi, so we don't have class and if I get up in time I will go into the city and take a gander at the procession.
Do you want us to send the hat with the spinning propeller on top?
Posted by: POPS | 06 June 2007 at 14:12
Please do not discuss your pants. It is too, too shymaking.
Posted by: Sanjie | 06 June 2007 at 15:23
Wow! Cruisin' the old haunts of Martin Heidegger while sporting leather lederhosen with a bladder full of Bavarian beer and the Horst Wessel song on your I-pod. Now that brings back college days.
When's the first panty raid?
Posted by: Card | 06 June 2007 at 15:42
I don't think you should talk to him like that. You know, he's almost thirty.
I don't think he can probably hear you anyway. H - E - L - L - O!!!
Posted by: Blake Lewis | 06 June 2007 at 15:57