The redhead is sleepy!

    I slept only six and a half hours last night, which is normal for a school week but very different from my normal ten-hour sleep-in summer days. It’s coming guys! School is rushing towards sweeping in around us. For me this not only reminds me I must LEARN things (oh, the horror!) but I must learn them in German, with a german speaking teacher lecturing and me taking notes and trying to understand. But I am so relieved to have to very well english speaking adults for my host family, and it should be crazy awesome. (:
    Three things happened today. (since we’re on day 9 of the countdown)
    The first and craziest was my enormous leap into adulthood which was my first withdrawal EVER of cash from an ATM with my bank card. Afterward my mother said,”Wasn’t that easy?”
    To which I replied,”...well, yes.... in ENGLISH.”
    I’ve been taking great license to dramatics lately and since my family won’t see me for so long, why not?
    The second accomplishment of the day was a task of incredible difficulty. In a completely objective perspective it should probably have been one of Hercules’ tasks or something.... If Hercules were a super bookworm nerd like me that is.
    Today I had to pick out of my towering three shelves and five randomly placed book stacks ONLY THREE BOOKS.
    Question: How do you manage such a punishing task? It’s like choosing between  children or choosing between Mother Jones and Alice Paul! I mean, it just simply cannot be done nor attempted without utter heart-breaking sorrow. (Wow I am dramatic today...)
    In the end after long pondering, I have chosen the complete set of Jane Austen’s work contained in one volume (which does have LOTS of volume), a battered copy of The Norton Anthology of English Literature (the most nerd-tastic poetry book ever collected), and finally “The Indispensible CALVIN AND HOBBES” (...this books holiness cannot really be expressed in mere words.)
    The third and final realization of the day took a rather strange downfall...
    If you do not already know, I am somewhat of an astrology geek as well and by a strange inkling of my mind I had the curiosity to check the dates of Mercury Retrograde.
    If you are not in fact educated much in astrology and do not know what Mercury in Retrograde means it is not in fact very retro. Mercury is the planet of travel and communication (both of which I will be doing a lot of in the next few weeks). Retrograde is when a planet appears to be moving backward by some weird optical illusion (want to know more? click here!!).
    Now generally speaking, backward movement, even the illusion of it, isn’t really a good sign. In this case it makes everything traveling and communication go wacko. Really, it’s not a good idea to go traveling anywhere or making any solid agreements with people. And lucky me, I’m traveling outside my own country for the first time in my life, AND I’m staying there for a year where I must speak my second language, risking much confusion for everyone. Well, wish me luck!