I hope y’all are having a great Valentine’s Day with your loved ones!
I am having a study-for-my-final-which-is-tomorrow day. But there’s nothing I can do about that, I do need to study and my Valentine (haha, how cheesy!) has to work, anyway. :p
The good news is, that after that final tomorrow I have only one left, and after that a two month break is awaiting me. I think I will start that break by going out and getting tipsy (I have given up on getting drunk).

My plans for the break consist of the following: write a paper for my Hispanic Theater class, go home to Munich for a couple of weeks, sleep in (almost) every day, spend more time with friends & boyfriend, and maybe get a job to earn some extra money. I will have to see about that one, though, because I haven’t had the nerve to look for a job, and finding one that short-notice usually doesn’t work out (as I’ve learned from experience).

Last night I successfully upgraded Wordpress here to the latest version (from 1.5 to 2.0.1) and I am really happy it all worked out well. I didn’t mess anything up, and I have to say I am quite proud of myself. The thing is I understand little to none of PHP and MySQL so if some problem had come up, I would have probably not known how to solve it. But it seems everything is up and running just fine. :)

Well, I had better start on studying. It is getting late, and I have done absolutely nothing for my final yet today. Please cross your fingers that my last two finals go well! The other three went okay, I think I messed Spanish up a little, but Translation and Italian should be good (okay - you never know with that Italian teacher, she’s a tough grader).

Last night while I was lying in bed I was thinking about my times in San Francisco and on the East Coast last year. I miss those times so much.

I miss seeing new places every day. I miss being so exhausted every night from soaking up all these impressions. I miss walking through a city for hours, and seeing all these buildings, people and social interaction.

I miss hanging out with fellow travelers from all over the world in the youth hostel in the evenings. Meeting people who have come from different places, and yet end up at the same place you are at right now. Like the Indian guy in Boston who went to UT and might be moving to Heidelberg. Or the two Aussie girls who were traveling the world for a year who did some kind of (archeological?) project who I met in San Francisco.

I even miss having to share my room with different strangers every night. Wondering who will be the next person(s) in my room. It’s fascinating how for a few days people’s paths cross and then each goes their way unlikely to ever meet again.

I also miss the sun. I want to travel again. I never realized it, but I loved this way of traveling. Staying at a cheap place and diving into the city by myself, no organized tours, no big groups, just me and that city. Eventually I figured out my pattern, how I always felt really overwhelmed, just wandering around aimlessly for a few hours on the day I arrived, and then the days after that I got more and more comfortable with my new surroundings - until the day I had to leave them again.

It really is a unique feeling.

I want to travel again so bad. Part of it may be that recently I have been so stressed out with school & some private issues, and I want to escape. I want a break from everyday routine, from my life. I hope I get that chance again soon.