HOWDY FOLKS!

Well, I hope that you enjoyed the last update as much as I enjoyed your comments. Good to hear from all of you! Things are going pretty alright here. Daniela and I went last weekend to the Spreewald Therma, which is a super duper bad ass spa that is offered here. It is with natural mineral water and features several baths with salt content from a refreshing 2.5% to a floatable 8%. They had this whole system there whereby you could follow this plan that was basically like a Roman bath; i.e. mild, hot, hotter, cold, hot, cold, etc. There were even steam and sauna rooms, but as Daniela and I soon discovered after entering, there were a bunch of naked people, in every possible European sauna way. Yikes.

Last week I ran into a bit of a surprise, as I got comments back from my extra important symposium paper stating that I had completely miswritten it. Well, after a good 45 minute semi-heated discussion it was revealed that I indeed did not write according to the standard my teacher, as well as discovering that she had not told the class before. Hmmm... Well, Daniela and I had already booked tickets to go back to Horba and see her family one last time before we go to the states (leaving 12/15!!!), so reluctantly enough I had to work on that most of the weekend (though it went especially well thanks to some editing from the parents, thanks guys!). The worst part of the whole experience was having to sit in the library on Thursday doing research for four hours, while I missed the gorgeous weather. It was in the 60's here and sunny. Not cool on the not cool scale.

Well, that is all for now, not much else to report, hope all is well!