Time flies

So I come home in exactly one month. What. The. Fuck. Seriously, there are no other words to describe how I feel about that. I can't believe it's the end of May already, and all these friends I've made here will be going back to their corners of the world, as I head to mine. Really, I'm not too keen on that. I've made some damn amazing friends, but I have another entry I want to write about it.

Well, the last few weeks have been interesting as I've broken both my comp and my bank card. hahahah yeah I'm baiscally stranded. I'll live though. I just have to go a few more days until both are restored to me. Yay!

The last week though has been full of activities. Finals were done for a whole group of us last Friday, so that led to spending the night drinking, laughing, and goofing off. I haven't laughed that hard in a REALLY long time. And Saturday, Véronique and I made pancakes, eggs and bacon for everyone (her, me, Melinda and Matt) and we spent the day hanging out, laying around, and just being lazy...as post drinking things usually dictate.

Museé des Beaux Arts avec Melinda

Sunday, I went to some of the museums here with Melinda, and eventually Véronique joined us. I had a blast, but I usually do at museums. Even the few that exist in the Fort amuse me. After that I spent a few hours at the cyber café and then decided to go exploring...

I took line B all the way to the end, to a small town called Hoenheim. Cute, quaint, picturesque, pretty average for these parts, as it were. I saw a really neat little cemetary in the town, where half the gravestones were written in German, and the other half in French. You know you're in Alsace when...but anyway it was actually really fascinating!

Well this cemetary also happened to be the city line between Hoenheim and another town, Bischheim. Well I knew the tram line went through Bischheim too, so why not just catch it there? Good in theory, but in practice?

Yep I got lost...

Well no worries...I'll find it...Yeah I wound up in the next town, Schiltigheim. Ok no worries, I'd been to Schiltigheim before, I figutred I would make it back there no problem. Hahaha yeah...lost again.

Long story short, I walked 3 towns and half of Strasbourg before FINALLY getting a tram home. I was EXHAUSTED but had a good day. :D

Monday I hung out with Sibylle and finally caved, and watched Pride and Prejudice. It was the 1995 version from BBC with Colin Firth. I have to say, I'm glad I got over my 'prejudices' and watched the movie. The actress who played Mrs. Bennet was FANTASTIC! I loved her! And I can see why people have told me Elizabeth reminds me of them. I think I'll have to read the book when I get home now.

Tuesday, I finally got to go to Offenburg with Melinda and Véronique, and I loved it! It was just as beautiful as I thought, and it was a cheap trip. The town was cute, and happy, and the weather was PERFECT for a day trip! We had a blast just wandering around the town, seeing what was there, and taking pictures. It was a great change of scenery. And Melinda and I just HAD to play in the fountain in the Stadtmitte (downtown if you will).

 Heiligenkreuze Kirche

Right off the bus

Stadtkirche

Der Rathaus

 

The  rest of the week has been basically trying to amuse myself without a computer. It's HARD! hahahaha! Like REALLY hard! Sad but true.

That said though I should probably finish so I don't waste all my time on the computers here in the café. Only 5 more days ;)

playing in the fountain

Osama Bin Laden is Dead

One of the biggest pieces of news that any American of my generation could hear, no matter your feelings on the matter, has finally been announced: Osama Bin Laden is dead.

I woke up hearing about it, surprisingly from one of my Canadian friends (haha what is up with you Canadians! XD Yeah yeah yeah I know...sometimes it's good having you as my hat lol). None too much in details, but it didn't take long to find out either. And to be honest I don't know how I entirely feel about it. By that I mean, no one emotion prevailed in my reaction to it.

As per usual, all I could end up doing is crying. Surprise, surprise right?

All the stories that have come out through the years, all the crying, suffering, anger, protests, questions, debates...it's all finally been for SOMETHING. Even personally, while I've not been touched by this as much as some others, it's made me angry over the years to see the people who WERE directly affected by this suffer like they have. What HAVE they suffered for? Why have people died, given up their lives, and then been screwed over by the government they fought so hard to defend? It makes me angry, because this is no small thing these people have done, so what is the point in doing it? Nothing. Nothing at all.

Or so it seemed. Finally, it's been worth SOMETHING. I don't know if the price paid is worth it, but it's been more than it ever has been before. These people who've lost so much that was so dear to them, have finally been...validated. It will never replace the person or people that have been lost, or the emotional damage that has been done or anything like that, but now it at least means something. People can go to bed tonight and know that in the end, it hasn't been all in vain.

Not to mention of all times to hear this, I'm hearing it when i'm out of the country. That just adds a level of weird to all of it.

Anyway, I don't know if there's much else to say about it; I'm still a bag of WTF and what am I going to do today? The personal to-do list is mixing with the idea of remembering the things that are bigger than us. That always makes for an odd mix.