Good Day Monday, Sept. 11, 2006

Today is a lazy one. I had my science class at 11:30 so I woke up around 10:30, but had to wait a little for the shower to “open.” Class was interesting, I learned that the zodiac signs are actually off by a whole month because the earth wobbles and the sun has moved in relation to the constellations. I got a locker at the main building, I’m not sure how much I’m going to use it, but I figured I would get one before they ran out, should make things easier. I have german at 4:15, so I’m going to leave in about half an hour. There is an artist’s work on display in the main building today in honor of the 5th anniversary of 9-11. It looks interesting, very colorful. Hopefully I will be getting an internet connection in my room today. I have been waiting so long for it and I am sick and tired of using the fucking computer lab. It is always busy and you can’t do anything in there anyway. I’m supposed to get it sometime after 5pm, so I’m going to try and keep busy until later so that I’m not staring at the computer praying for it to come. The gym is supposed to open today too, so I think me and some of my friends are going to go down and workout. Kiro (my roommate) is the one in most need of the weight room. He make me look fat, lol. We are going to try and keep each other motivated and avoid the usual scenario where you eventually stop going because you’re too lazy. I had to send an email to my german teacher for homework. I had to write it in german, but I think it was mainly just so that she could have our email addresses. I wasn’t quite sure what to write, so hopefully I did what I was supposed to. German seems like it is going to be tough, but I would rather put my nose to the grindstone and do it so that I can finish it when I get back to pitt. I’m reading the first required book for falsifications, “The lie that wouldn’t die,” it is about this document called the protocols of the leaders of Zion, which is pretty much a fake record of the Jews, secret plan to take over the world. It is the most ridiculous thing I have ever read (the document) but it has been spread worldwide and many people believed it to be true. The book is mostly about finding out about it and how it spread, etc. All the books and material for this course seem very interesting and the professor is wonderful. She is more interested in human history than empirical history. Human history is shit like the history of salt, garbage, and cooking, just everyday things that one wouldn’t think to have much of a history at all. I’m really enjoying my time here. I really have to try to sit down and do work because everyone here is so friendly and wanting to do something w/ me or anyone else. Kiro came back today, he went home for the weekend. He brought some speakers from his old stereo that only plays cassettes, but the speakers work great and it sounds a hell of a lot better than the fucking laptop speakers do. I really like my room. It’s spacious and has a great view of the courtyard so that I can see where everyone is and check out if anything is going on w/o ever leaving my room. It’s on the second floor so it’s not a far walk (up the steps) and just out of reach so that people can’t get in through my window. The room is pretty much shaded all day, so it stays nice and cool. I have no idea why I have decided to start writing a journal, maybe because I had nothing to for a little, or Trent just mentioned that he (or anyone) should start writing a journal to remember all this. It is quite difficult to remember all that is going on here, especially seeing that everyone here is a fucking alcoholic. In the two weeks that I have been here, pretty much everyone has been drinking almost everyday. Not heavily, but just in general. Now it’s to the point where everyone is trying to make an active effort not to drink during the week, or the next few days, I know I have. I really would like to go to the winery soon, but it’s difficult to find someone who appreciates wine for something other than its alcohol in college. I sure I will find someone eventually. I hopefully will be going to Sofia w/ Trent this weekend, which would be great. He has a nice house, his dad is in charge of some part of the U.S. embassy here, so he is in ‘power,’ one would say. There seems like a lot to do everywhere, whether it’s in the town, city, country, or outside the country. Trent and some others would like to go to Amsterdam and Oktoberfest for the fall break. I would love to do that, but I don’t want to impose on Lily-Anne’s colleague. She was so nice to us last time and the last thing I want to do is get really fucked up and have a bunch of friends at her apartment. I don’t know what I’ll do. I’ll ask mom or dad what they think and I’ll go from there. My Serbian friends invited me to come visit them at their homes. I would also love to do that seeing that I would never get the same opportunity for a while. I don’t know though because I seem to be drifting from them, so I’ll have to see what happens in the next month or however long it is. The cleaning lady finally came and cleaned the mould out of our fridge, I’m sure we could’ve done it ourselves, but I guess we were hoping to get a new one seeing that this one is so crappy. The other room in our suite had a fridge so new that it still has tape and cardboard on the inside. Oh well, ours gets the job done. Well, I should be off to class because there are many people in the class, so you have to go early if you want a good seat.
Ttyl
Max