| SWAN ATTACK! |
[Apr. 28th, 2004|03:32 pm] |
One day left and I get attacked by the evil black swans from hell... I avoided them all semester and they get me the final day!! Huber, our godly suave maintenance man, was taking a few of us on a tour of the underground tunnels of the castle (which kicked ass! there is even a tunnel that goes underneath the moat to the sister castle in the next town over to provide the old prince safe passage to his secret affair with the princess at the other castle) anyways, we were walking thru the gardens and the swan attack... started running and hissing and lunged at me! so of course I put in my practiced defense techniques of tae bo and gave that swan a swift forward kick into the head... although it did scare the shit out of me and left me dumbfounded in shock....
last day... last day... can i say it again?? last day!! what!! i cant believe it is here, i cant believe i leave from the castle at 6 am tomorrow morning (which means i will be up all night tonight) but i just cant believe that i am all packed up and ready to go, i cant decide if i want to go back or not (well of course i do.. i miss too many people) but i am going to miss a lot of things here too....
ill write more later about this last week but i have to go get dressed for the farewell dinner.... |
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| 3 MORE DAYS |
[Apr. 26th, 2004|04:17 pm] |
I cant believe it, there are 3 more days, 1 more final and then I am home... this semester has flown by sooo quickly... yesterday was our final performance of Antigone that we have been working on all semester, and it felt SOO good to finally perform it, and dre videotaped it for me so that i can have a copy yay... so picture this, i play antigone's death scene... we are set in a barn (cause thats our performance space) and the stage is at one end and the large barn doors are at the other.... music from requim for a dream starts playing as the barn doors open and i am shoved in by a guard. my hands are bound with a rope and i am wearing this flowing red nightgown-esque dress with my hair all down and curly (i felt so cool) walking barefoot in a straight line to the stage I stare down the entire audience (who none are standing up for me as i am wrongfully being sent to my death) i reach the stage where the chorus all doned in black are gathered in teh center and part as i walk through them to the wall where i bang on it in frustration and fall to the ground... follwing that the chorus engulfs me while the chorus leader goes off on her tirade about how none can resist the power of love and it will destroy us all... i break out of the mass, scream my lines only to have the chorus raise me into the air in praiseful reverence as if i were dead, to which i thrash free, bitch them out, have the chorus leader throw the reality of me dying in my face and i fall to the ground in realization of my own death, to which requim starts again and i am led of in a dream like somber walk to my own grave....
can you tell i was a lil bit excited about it, sorry for all you who really didnt care to hear every detail... but anyways...
3 more days, left with games like capture the flag, waterballoon toss, trivia competition, pie eating contest, and doedge ball... but the even in which will be my favorite is the final night at the Vink... followed by an unofficial group trip to the lake for some drunken swimming (we'll see if we veven make it to the lake though) lol but its just definately going to be great to go home and see all my friends and family, i miss you guys soo much you dont even understand |
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| attack of killer mosquitos |
[Apr. 23rd, 2004|10:52 pm] |
So yesterday was a beautiful day... one of those days where you just open up all of your windows for the fresh air... so Dre did... and then day turned into night and the window was still open and she left her loft light on so when I walked into the room it was cool and i decided to close the window, until i got to the window sill that was coated, litterally crawling on every surface with mosquitos attracted to the light in the sill... i screamed, backed up, ran forward, shut the window, left the light on so the mosquitos would stay there... crawled under my covers and continued to write my paper... yup i definately just left it all there... so dre came into the room and i was like... hey babe, look at your window, and she did the same ugh!! double take back, freaked out and left the room
returned wearing a sweatshirt closed entirely around her face, sweatpants, and the vaccuum cleaner... remember Tommy Boy and the moths?yup thats right, we sucked those puppies right up and clogged the whole of our vccuum with a sock, as it still sits today... yay for innovativeness. |
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| Sad News |
[Apr. 22nd, 2004|01:53 pm] |
There is sad news to report in the world of Well...
we have a theif on our hands, yes in the lil town community of our Castle we have a recently discovered theif who has gone un noticed for quite some time and stolen over 500 american dollars from an array of 7 different kids...
its really sad to think taht in such a close community we would have someone who would take advantage of other people like this, especially friends... there was a meeting called and the opportunity was given to the theif to return the money annoymously without punishment and since whoever that person is has decided not to take that option, the police are being called in for questioning and all of our rooms will be searched. Which I dont know about you but I definately love having the police patrolling the building while I am trying to study for finals...
I really hope they catch this idiot |
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| JP |
[Apr. 21st, 2004|03:57 pm] |
Jp's gonna be in Boston this summer...Jp's gonna be in Boston this summer...Jp's gonna be in Boston this summer...Jp's gonna be in Boston this summer... WHOOO!
this makes me happy
I miss you JP
well sorta
no actually not, you smell
but I miss having someone to make fun of... even if you smell |
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| remember munich?? |
[Apr. 21st, 2004|03:54 pm] |
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Haha so I have been having a shit day with it being the lng acting class day and i was totally psyched for it being the final class before our performance and feeling really solid about the performance and then our teacher totally changed everything on my scene and i am frustrated to hell and so pissed.... and then i go to the computer lab and find an email from a mr. gorgeous army man christofor that i met in munich and we had exchanged emails... haha made my day, thanks to wonderful army men, what would the world do without their beauty? |
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| bowling |
[Apr. 19th, 2004|05:45 pm] |
thats right they even have bowling in the netherlands, and despite what my father may think, yes the balls are even round!
it felt so good to go bowling, 7 of us packed up into the bus and headed to the town over... found this lil basement bowling alley with 4 lanes and a bar... haha it reminded me of the countless nights at Town and Country... so the 7 of us bowl our lil hearts out, drink a lil more and head home for the bar (i mean it is sat night) we end up waiting for a 1/2 hr for the bus and with the 4 guys and 3 girls we had to find some way to entertain ourselves.. so yes a litter war was started.. not by the girls mind you, we sat to the side and laughed our asses off as our guys pelted empty juice boxes and water bottles at each other, running around this empty parking lot... oh the joys of adolescence... but we make it to the bar by 1130, and decide its a great night to drink ourselves into confidence (well nick has to cause he has to go into the moat to get his keys that he threw in ealier in the day) and of course we werent going to let him drink alone, so we all drank as well... but yes, after bowling and drinking and drinking some more, at 2 am, there was a key exbhitiion in order to extract the sunken keys from the moat... where nick and pat scale down the side of the wall and seep in with my flashlight and somehome manage to find these keys and whooo the electric key card still works!!
what a crazy night... we'll just have to kind a moat some night (or creek) down in jtown after bowling and drinking... so i can show you all how fun it is! |
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| Hell Ride Home |
[Apr. 19th, 2004|05:25 pm] |
So the journey begins in Rome... at 545 in the morning, I had stayed up the whole night before talking to the hostel staff figuring I would sleep on the first train out... so I jump on the train before the sun has risen and think its going to be a relaxing long train ride from Rome to Munich where I can just sleep the whole way... I was wrong..
first of all, the train i was on was 2 hrs late arriving to munich which meant that i meant my connecting train which caused further problems but bedsides the fact that the train was late I was on the train with a crying baby, and a smelly man and did not sleep one wink... so 11 oclock rolls around... yes 11 pm that is as in nighttime, when i arrive in munich. i have missed my connecting train cause this one was late and so i had to find the next train into the next connecting town. there were no more into koln where i was originally headed to make a connection to venlo but i knew that dusseldorf also made that same connection so i found out that there was a train leaving to dusseldorf in an hr so i waited around for that. got on it and there were no seats available originally. so exhausted i sit between cars having to stay awake and attention cause i had to make 2 connections before i got to dusseldorf.. well low and behold i get a seat and the pure comfort of it allowed me to doze off for 2 stops, just enough to make me miss mine... yay for me... so i jumped off at the next train station cause i freaked out hoping that i could catch a train back to the other station. well i find a train that will take me closer, jump on that, and get off at some other train station in germany. its about 3 in the morning im exhausted, smelly, frustrated and lost somewhere in germany. i go to talk to the service desk man hoping he can direct me to the best trian to take back to dusseldorf and well he was really helpful... a lil too helpful
he said no problem and would look it up in the computers but in the mean time did i want a cup of coffee? i was like whoo i have a savior! i figured that cause it was 3 am and he was probably lonely and could tell i was frazzled he was being nice and offering me some coffee so i was very thankful and he took me behind the desk to the staff kitchen and let me sit down got some coffee printed out the train info and started talking to me about where i was from and where i was going and etc etc, it was nice to have some human contact at that point... that is until i noticed that this guy had been feeling himself up the entire time that we were talking... once i saw this i said i had to go but he persisted that i stay, i insisted that i leave and my train was soon, i jumped up and pushed past him thanking him for the coffee... and jumped on the next train out... thankfully it was the one i needed...
so i arrive in dusseldorf, shooken up, still tired, but with dre's swiss army knife in hand that she gave to me for protection... gues what its 4 am and the next train into venlo doesnt arrive till 640 am... whoo arent i the lucky one... so again i sit in the train station waiting for the next train, waiting, waiting, waiting... whooo the train comes! and i sit on it and wait and it takes me to another station that is closer and find out that my connection the guy told me was wrong and there wasnt one for another 45 min, so again cari sits and waits and is getting a little frustrated with all the this bs... but eventually her train comes, she gets on it, gets into venlo around 9 and due to the fact that it was easter sunday the bus schedule was completely different from normal... the first one didnt come until 1015, which at this point i didnt care, i just sat there, nothing was open but i was so close to home i didnt care... i got on the bus, curled up and sat there for the next 40 min as i was taken home to my sweet sweet castle and climbed up my stairs, found my bed and passed out...
welcome home |
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| of keys and moats |
[Apr. 18th, 2004|07:51 pm] |
If you are standing next to a moat and throwing your keys in the air, you would think it not the smartest idea right? Of course though, Nick, congratulations on showing us all we are correct with our common sense as your keys sailed slow motion into the middle of the moat with a "plunk"... sunk to the bottom of the murky mud.
but it was entertaining seeing them fish the keys out after we got back from the bar at 2 in the morning :) |
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| welcome to the castle |
[Apr. 18th, 2004|07:47 pm] |
So Im standing in the bathroom (which are co-ed) straightening my hair. I hear a flush from the toilet and my friend Evan walks out... he looks at me for a second and says "I hate it when people pee on the toilet." turns and walks away...
welcome to the castle |
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