Všechno

(Translation: Everything)

I haven't updated with a substantial post in a LONG time, so I am going to try to cover the major events of the past few weeks as best I can!

Tarah

Jenny and I met Tarah last Saturday evening at the airport. We had a great week with her, taking her to all of the major sites, and going out for a lot of great meals. To highlight the contrast between my two weeks of visitors: I described the week with the dads in one word, beer, but to describe the week with Tarah, the word would have to be wine. I don't know if I drank as much wine this week as I did beer the week with the dads, but it might have been close.

As great as it was to see the dads, it was different with Tarah. I live with Marc five months out of the year, but at most I see Tarah for about four hours a handful of times each break. Gainesville is far. Jenny, Tarah, and I realized that since Mount, we probably have not all seen each other as much as we did last week, so it was really something special. It made me realize how glad I am that we have kept those high school friendships, at least enough that Tarah would fly all the way from Gainesville to see us!

It was sad seeing Tarah off yesterday morning. It's a good thing that I was still too asleep to cry, but it was almost sadder than when the dads left (sorry, Dad), especially because I know that I will have plenty of time to get sick of Dad over break (kidding), but it will be back to a handful of times with Tarah. Just going to have to start planning a roadtrip to Gainesville!

Thanksgiving

Tarah and I are champs. We put heels on at 1pm and wore them until 2AM. That is talent!

More importantly, Thanksgiving was just like Thanksgiving at home. I got to celebrate with some of the friends that are the closest to family to me, so it was almost like being at home. We started the day rushing to get ready, just like I would have at home. We met Jenny at the pub near her dorm where we had small salads for lunch. Then we went back to her room and had some Thanksgiving wine and just hung out doing not much of anything, just like I would have at Aunt Michelle's. Then we went to the Marriott for the most expensive Thanksgiving dinner I will probably ever have. It was an amazing spread of almost everything you could think of, and we managed to have unlimited wine. For those of you that are wondering, no, I did not have turkey! We met lots of other American students, and we also met a lot of their drunk parents who were so excited to see other Americans. We stayed until they turned all the lights on, and then moved on to Radost. (That's the place I wrote about before, with the Rhianna music video). All in all it was a great Thanksgiving that I will always remember. I was very thankful to not only be in another country to celebrate the holiday but to have two of my best friends right there with me!

School

Worst thing you can do to your grades: have your dad come visit during the week of midterms. In the next few weeks I have to write FOUR ten-page papers and study for four finals. Back to the real world already!

Youtube

I have added several videos to my Youtube account. You can get to them by clicking here. (On the right it says "Uploads 15" and then under the little thumbnails of videos it should say "see all," and if you click that you can choose from all of them which ones you want to watch). They are from various places over the course of the last few months. Sometimes scenery looks prettier in a panorama, or scenery at night comes out better as a video, so in some of them the sound doesn't matter (meaning Grandpa and Dad, if you don't understand/hear what is being said, then it probably isn't that important).



That's about it for now. Next time: Christmas markets! Oh, and I will put my Vienna pictures up soon!

They have gingerbread lattes in Prague. I am never coming home.


P.S. Dad, I just realized that I make fun of you a lot in this post, but I don't mean it; I swear.