Spring Break!

Keeps getting better with a visit up to San Luis Obispo to see Megan - its so beautiful up there, I'm definitely going to have to go back! If there ever was such a thing as laughing too much (lets be honest, there's not), then I laughed too much with Megan.

Spring Break

What is better than seeing Sally in San Diego on a beautiful day? Playing a soccer game with her and seeing her score a goal. California burritos and Jacob were just the icing on the cake.

I could really use spring break right now

Work and school all day long. I'm so thankful for my friends that make me laugh. And they just get me.
I am so excited for my first legal St. Patrick's Day - I think I will have to make my ancestors proud!

Next Vacation?

Fira, Santorini, Cyclades Islands, Greece

Works for me. 

This could be more of a possibility if I was still living in Berlin.

I LOVE my classes this semester

Specifically, my 1st Amendment, Supreme Court, and Holocaust in Lit/Film classes. My Holocaust class is probably the most interesting class I have ever taken and I wish everyone would take a class on this topic. Here are some things I wanted to share from these classes. If they're not in English, then they at least have English subtitles and all of them are worth watching!

Die Welle (The Wave) was based on the true story of a California high school teacher who spontaneously did an experiment with her students.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048434/
Night and Fog (1955)
A short French documentary on the concentration camps. Though there are some very graphic parts.


Skokie/Neo-Nazi/Frank Collin
I couldn't find the documentary I watched in my 1st Amendment class but Frank Collin led the National Socialist Party of America to Skokie, IL in 1977. One of the interviews in the doc had Collin making extremely antisemitic remarks that I found shocking, but constitutionally protected by the 1st Amendment.

The Colbert Report - Justice John Paul Stevens
The Colbert Report - Justice John Paul Stevens
My previous recommendations are a little bit depressing, I know. Thats why you should definitely watch this clip of former Supreme Court justice with Stephen Colbert. And this guy is 91 years old!

Christmas & Las Vegas

This just made my day

Your Daily Life
Your Daily Life II
Your Daily Life III
Your Daily Life IV

New life strategy for whenever anyone asks me to do something physical. Like taking out the trash.

I'm a princess and this is my tiara!

Just in case any of you weren't already aware -- my name means princess.

Such A Great Start

to my day and semester! This morning I found out that I got the internship that I was so excited to apply for. It is quite possibly the perfect internship for me -- it's at a literary agency in Hollywood in which I read manuscripts and books, write summaries and give opinions for possible TV and film production. I definitely jumped for joy when I found out.


And today is the first day of spring semester and I am so excited for my classes to start :]

San Diego and Las Vegas -- I guess America can be fun, too...

To be quite honest, California has been pretty uneventful compared to last semester in Berlin. This weekend put America back in the game when I visited Sally in San Diego on Thursday and went to Las Vegas on the weekend. Meeting Sally in San Diego might not measure up to meeting in Berlin, Paris, and Vienna - but seeing Sally never fails to disappoint me :)


I gotta say that celebrating my 21st in Las Vegas is the only way you really feel like you're 21. I will post some pictures and videos soon but let's just say that I got to share a little bit of Germany with my family and friends at the Hofbräuhaus in Las Vegas while I got spanked, beat a couple of people in a beer liter holding contest, and entered a beer chugging contest. 


Touché, America.

Today I stumbled across two amazing pictures

and I instantly added two more destinations that I have to visit in my lifetime.

The Tree Tunnel in Kleven, Ukraine

Cherry Blossom Avenue in Bonn, Germany

First haircut in a year and a half.

Yup, that's right. My last haircut was in August 2010. I just kept putting it off and I meant to get it cut before I went to Berlin, but it never happened. And when I told the stylist that I wanted a healthy trim (however much that was), she told me that it was already healthy and that I didn't even really need it. Thank goodness for my healthy hair genes....

Its already 2012?

How did this happen? Its amazing how quickly time flies. I printed out a good portion of my pictures from the past semester and put them into multiple photo albums. It was incredible to see all the places I was able to visit in just a few photo albums. One of my goals is to eventually make a scrapbook of at least Berlin, but that will definitely take a long time to do.


Here are some pictures from my last couple of days in Berlin before I headed back to California.

The Sony Center all decorated for Christmas

I love the Lego Santa!

Berliner Dom - Protestant church on Museum Insel

I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. (Siehe ich bin bei euch alle tage bis an der welt ende)

And this is the victory that has overcome the world -- our faith. (Unser glaube ist der sieg, der die welt ueberwunden hat)

Inside the church

Eerie crypt below the church

Dozens of coffins/caskets

The Berliner Dom was really cool to visit and I'm glad that I had a chance to climb up  to the top, where I got a spectacular view of the city. After that, I packed up all my stuff and headed to the airport. After a short flight to London, I boarded my 11 hour flight to LAX. Everything went according to plan and I got to watch 5 movies on the way home...which was nice considering I hadn't seen any movies in awhile! My plan was to not sleep on the flight home so that I would be exhausted by the time I got home. So much for plans! I could not have been more awake than I was when I got home. It took about a week for me to adjust to the time difference but I am still adjusting to being back in California. I don't start classes at Chapman until the end of January, so its nice to be on a break. And I found out that I am nearly done with the courses for my major AND minor. So what am I going to do? Pick up another minor.