so...i guess i have to say something dont i.

well it is christmas time in germany....wow. already. american christmas time carries with it a level of stress. german christmas is...fun. there are christmas markets everywhere which are magical places where many remarkable treasures can be found at great prices. and by great i mean exorbitant. but still...the magic of christmas is in the air. and the bode is full of life...full of crazy busy christmastime fervor. we had caroling throughout fischbach in the pouring rain with our k groups. it was slightly miserable. there is a lot of snow here which is highly untypical for this area of germany. none of us are complaining about this. we then had a christmas concert at the friedrichshafen christmass market. it was cold. we have another concert planned for saturday plus a k group christmas dinner/white elephant. next week i have 2 big papers due and i need to get cracking on them. christmas plans were as follows. dublin, paris and rome. due to lack of proper funding, rome fell through and i am now going to be saying with Matt and Liam at matt's grandmothers in england. this is exciting. matt and liam are people you do not know. so i wont go into great detail. hmm. not much else to report. we are losing 4 students next semester and getting 3 new ones. sad and exciting at the same time. well it is almost lockup time so i need to go. sorry these postings are so ridiculous and choppy. bye. and sorry for the typos. bye.