The End of One Crazy Week and the Beginning of Another

Disclaimer: This is my fifth draft! My head is just spinning with so many thoughts at the moment that I can’t seem to make any into real sense. So let me try to just calm down and say what’s up.

Alrighty, first things first: midterms are over! Praise God! I think that for the most part they went very well, considering I’ve never really gotten to take midterms before. Reflecting on the course of events this past week, I think I would be happy with never taking them ever again. If there’s anything I learned from meeting Alice Von Hildebrand, though, it is that it would be an atrocity not to learn from our life experiences. So, note to self: have chocolate handy for the next potential midterm week.

Next order of business: 10-day itinerary…as I understand it.

Tonight: pack haha, good one

Friday morning: Wake up when it’s dark out. Bake some delicious chocolate nut muffins. Walk down to the train station.

Friday on the train: Read every single word of the Mental Floss that my beautiful madre just sent across the ocean. Oh, I really can’t wait. You try studying about procreation for a Christian Marriage midterm when there’s a Mental Floss in front of you containing an articles on Moptop Mania and Ken Jennings connecting Chai Tea and Tai Chi in six degrees.

Friday - Monday: Bavaria! Activities include hiking, frolicking, mountain luging, visiting many castles, going to mass in German, and exploring the beauty of southern Germany. And geocaching. Lots and lots of geocaching.

Tuesday: St Gallen, Switzerland. Visit Cathedral St. Gallen/ Abbey Library. This is exciting for many reasons:

• The cathedral is Baroque…praise God, I think I’ve seen enough Gothic.
• The library houses 140,000+ documents, some hand-written and some over a thousand years old.
• The library website promises “richly decorated Irish manuscripts.” How elegant.
• When you walk in the library, you have to wear fuzzy slippers so as to protect the floor.
• Picture-taking is prohibited in the library, but I will do everything in my power to snap a candid of the fuzzies.

Wednesday-Saturday: Cinque Terre. Activities include melting at the sight of Italy’s exquisite beauty, etc. Hopefully more geocaching. There may or may not be cliff diving, since James Kerin did it, and one of my life goals is to be just like James.

Sunday: Arrive back in Gaming. Sleep.

And that is all for now. God bless and I'll see you in a week or so. A Hail Mary for me would be so perfect if you have 30 seconds to spare. You know, for my safety or something. Cliff diving can be hazardous.