“It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories” by W. Somerset Maugham. I found this quote on the bus back to Mannheim from Prague – I thought it was worth sharing because I thought it was a nice quote. Before I talk…
Last week Two weeks ago (I forgot to post this for some reason), I went to Novus for their all you can eat ribs special. I had not ate ribs since I was in San Diego so I have had a huge craving for them after I heard about their Monday special. Most of the meat products I have…
Soo what did I do last week? I think it was just a regular week – I went to school, slept, grabbed a snack with friends, kicked it with Judith, exercised, studied, and watched a movie. The eventful part of the week was Saturday and Sunday! Most people in the United States were aware of…
I PASSED! In my recent posts, I talked about how stressful it was to study for a particular exam but I recently found out that I passed 🙂 It was not with the high mark I wanted but I won’t be complacent. There isn’t much to talk about this week because as the semester wraps-up,…
It’s been three weeks of preparation and it was finally time to take this exam! I don’t usually feel like a test should have such importance but as I have mentioned before, it is a new system and I didn’t know what to expect. The exam itself is practically impossible to finish and most of…
With only a few days left of break, Janet and I decided to travel to Innsbruck, Austria. Leo inspired the idea because he travels to Kühtai every year, due to the fact that he is a ski instructor at one of the local schools. I have some limited experience snowboarding so I was already excited…
As the title states, I recently made a very short trip to Munich. We decided to only go for a day because I had to focus on my accounting exam and we would be traveling to Austria in a few days. It took about 5-ish hours to arrive to Munich and once we arrived, we…
Easter break has been extremely stressful. I have an upcoming final exam for my accounting test so I find myself sitting in the kitchen – studying for long tortures hours. It was time to take a break and actually enjoy the ‘experience’ of being abroad, I was going to travel to Budapest, Hungary with Judith.…
I am excited to announce that Easter break has officially started!! My week leading up to this moment was preoccupied with activities and studying for the final. Once again, it was a not such an eventful week but I thought I could take the time to talk about some of it. I can’t remember if…
Do you ever wake-up and think how great your week was? Obviously, the only reason I am asking that question is because I asked myself that question. What did I do?… NOTHING! It was a memorable week because I was very relaxed and I didn’t do a lot of eventful things. Lately, I have been…
I hear it all the time, “Mannheim is one of the safest cities in Germany.” There is not much argument to this statement, it is one of the safest cities but every city can have it’s mishaps Last week, there was two mishaps that I was aware of: 1) There was shooting near my home,…
There was a time in my life when I used to be excited about the first day of school. My mom would give us a new toy for the first day and that’s practically the only reason why I got excited. Nowadays, I get excited about the first day of school because I want to…
Every individual is different and every individual perceives things differently. With that being said, what do you think of when you hear the word countryside? Perhaps, you have watched too many horror movies and you tend to think of trailers, Bigfoot, population of <500, farms, or you might have a more positive image of what…
Do you ever gaze at a particular object and feel like you have never seen anything more beautiful? This is what I experienced as the plane was landing in Frankfurt and the beauty that caught my eye was not a girl; it was the snow. It had been the first I’d seen real snow in…
It’s difficult to grasp the idea of sitting in an empty café inside the Atatürk Airport in Istanbul, Turkey. Currently, the clock reads 4 o’clock in the morning, the baristas are falling asleep, and the security guard has habitually walked the same route for the last two hours. My flight departs at 8:20 a.m. to…
FLEXING FOR THE THIRTY 