I'm not really in the mood to elaborate about life right now but owed you, whoever you are, an update of sorts so here goes...

I went to a student demonstration last week. The school system is trying to increase the cost of education from 50euro a semester to a whopping 500euro a semester and it brought the students out in droves, over 600 according to a newspaper article the following day, out into the streets of Freiburg to speak out peacefully yet noticeably. Just imagine those of you in America if tuition was increased 10-fold in one semester. Granted, they only want to go from 50 to 500 but still...

I went with Assiyeah to visit a flat in the Wiehre section of town. It was the nicest flat I've seen so far and within our budget except for one thing. The real estate agent who was showing us the place had a small contract stipulation that called for a palltry two months cold rent be given to him for his services. That comes up to 1,540euro and that doesn't include the security deposit, or the first month's rent. I was livid and beside myself and just for that I'm ending this paragraph with an exclamation point! There, I feel better...no I don't, here's another one!

I sang some karaoke at a huge, 5 dancefloor party we went to over the weekend. I sang "Nine to Five", "Addicted to Love", and "When Doves Cry" and yes, a few beers were in the belly before I got up on that stage. It snowed on the way home and made the bike ride precipitous and quite interesting. I'm looking forward to travel and a bit more purpose here. I'm definitely "schwarzfahren" right now and it's overrated. I want to accomplish something while I'm here, not just be proud I made it. I guess that's a sign of aging, the necessity to produce instead of use but who knows, I'm still in that transitory stage of youth and old, preferably and hopefully towards the left side of that equation but I'm never a good judge of whose acting old and whose acting young. It looks like it's gonna rain again soon, but there aren't any aches in my joints so that's a good sign for me, right? Right? I'll send an update this weekend from the Czech Republic even if it's not filled with too many pictures...and I promise to get the webpage more udpated with the books and clothing I took but I'm lagging big time on that. I did just finish a book called "Notes From A Big Island" by Bill Bryson, a travel writer and the guy is pretty funny. I laughed outloud probably 5 times while reading it so that should say something. Speaking of saying something...

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