breathing

it's pretty much impossible to get any downtime around here. time for a deep, calming breath.
not that i would want to be sitting around - in fact i'm putting in extra effort to make sure i do as little of that as possible. although watching american dad and family guy in german on mtv is pretty freaking hilarious.
anywho, today was our first day of classes :-) my literary theory and cinema class seems fantastic, and we're watching love actually, paris je t'aime, amelie, the davinci code, and a lot of other movies that seem great. even my two hour french course doesn't seem like it will be too bad - the professor is really entertaining, and she's taking class a lot slower than my french 101 prof ever did. unfortunately, i did have an hour and a half long history class in a room with broken heat.
fun? not exactly. i'm sure at some point when i can actually feel my hands i'll have an easier time listening to the lecture.
i went out to dinner tonight with some people and made new friends. yay! haha. we went to a pizza place close to the chateau - me, chris, jetty, jen, cathleen, megan, zack, monica ... goodness there were a lot of us. i may be forgetting a few. i'm really excited to get to know everyone better though, i feel like i could really be close with them. i also ventured to try an irish coffee when we went out for gelato afterwards. funny thing about that...i thought it was just coffee with a hint of whiskey, but it's really more like "do you want some coffee with your whiskey?". i couldn't even finish it, as i wasn't looking for an early monday evening drunkfest, but it was quite good.
things have been a little stressful over the past couple days, that much is for sure. i've already spent one night in luxembourg city due to a somewhat entertaining mix-up with train platforms (mostly a result of my inability to read numbers), and getting everything organized as far as school and travel is concerned and keeping in touch with everyone at home is just... a lot. i'm working on it though.
i miss you all terribly, and i wish you were here.
love,
me