Liebe Leute,
A very brief post today, once again due to large amounts of work:
My time here is now winding down--eight days away from my flights home.
It's exciting and strange and sad to spend my last days here in Freiburg, knowing that not only is the end now in sight, but it's looming in the near future. I only wish I weren't drowning in work, so I could really spend my time here enjoying my last few moments rather than stressing about 18 pages of unwritten papers, one art history exam and one presentation (that means I've completed 3 papers, 1 exam, and 1 45-minute presentation in the last week and a half). I'm used to juggling only three classes worth of final exams and papers, so this is a bit more than I'm used to dealing with.
Yesterday I spent afternoon and evening in Basil (Switzerland!). I went with my drama class to see a play: Die Zofen, which is The Maids in English. It has been snowing for a few days (snow showers, unfortunately, which means the wet kind that barely sticks) and seeing the city covered in Christmas lights and snow was beautiful. Freiburg at night is also a bit magical. In these last few weeks it's been easy to notice how lovely the city is, as I realize how much I'm going to miss it.
This week my drama class also went to our teacher's house for dinner with him and his wife. They cooked a delicious meal that started with Pflammkuchen (my personal favorite), a very German (meaning bitter) salat, large amounts of ham (from the thigh, whatever that's called in English), and then finished with a cheesecake dessert (cooked by yours truly). Not to mention, before, during and after the meal we enjoyed homemade cranberry schnapps, 6 bottles of wine in verying degrees of quality (starting with the most basic and finishing with a really nice Buergunder) and finished with dessert wine and rasberry schnapps. What a fantastic meal and a fantastic night!
This weekend's tasks include finishing and editing my German paper, writing my Art History paper, outlining my medieval paper and preparing my presentation for Monday...and somewhere in there finding time to head over to the Christmas market, relax and! Sunday... we rented out the Party Wagon on the S-Bahn line. The Party wagon is basically a tram that runs all the lines on our tram system, but it includes tables, a bar and a music system. It's going to be a fun, but busy weekend...and I think we're all about to find out how much I can take.
Time to get started.
Until very, very soon,
Sara
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