Another (not so) lazy Sunday

This weekend, aside from the Tivoli trip, was very quiet. Lots of going to bed early, waking up early, and getting work done. I wrote three papers. I despise you JCU, you and that work stuff.

I really wish I had something more exciting to blog about. Aha, I do! Last night, instead of going out (admittedly, this isn't starting off so exciting after all), I was online and set up my travels with Max and Sadie. PDS Europe field trip 2007 will involve stops in Madrid (where I fly into December 15th, a day before Max and Sadie get there), Barcelona, Berlin, and Munich. Munich should be especially fun, because they have a bunch of Christmas-y stuff. Though I guess I haven't looked into things like that in the other cities, maybe it will be there as well. Total accomodations are going to only be about 120 euro (which is about 15 dollars more expensive now than when I got here. I will just suppress my anger about this for now. Damn you economics, damn you.), but travel is surprisingly expensive: the train from Berlin to Munich is 70 euro. Luckily, we found a flight from Barca to Berlin for 30 euro. We still need to get the ticket from Madrid to Barcelona. All things considered, however, it will be good fun for a reasonable price.

Now all I need to do is firm up plans for after the ski week with my parents. I'm not all that sure that I need to go to Switzerland any more. I had my permesso di soggiorno unintentionally stamped while traveling to the Czech Republic, which may have been a blessing in disguise. I believe that makes me a tourist now, and my tourist visa works for 3 months after I got stamped back into the Schenegen zone, so I should be fine... but I may want to go to Switzerland anyways. We'll see. These are things I need to discuss with Konstantin. He, however, did invite me to stay with him in Stuttgart, and I think he meant the entire week. We'll see. Either way, I'm excited to see Spain, Germany, and the Austrian and maybe Swiss Alps after the semester. This semester abroad has been quite the lucky blessing. Not to mention not having to go through the ND football season this year...