To be, or not to be...

Hello dearest. I had the most delightful excursion the other day, traveling to a massive castle built in the year 1000 which stands like a grand sentinel over the picturesque village of Cochem, before being whisked off for the evening to a dizzying wine-tasting, after which I explored a questionable underground Weinmuseum that was so dim-lit I could barely see my hand in front of my face... best of all, I took pictures! So many pictures. All for you. Because I love you.

But alas, the one thing I forgot to pack was my camera cord. All those delightful pictures are stuck in my camera until I either buy a new one (doubtful) or ask the parental unit to ship my original one from home. But the pictures are there, and they are coming. Don't you doubt it, love.

Regardless, life continues, and--despite the lack of photographic evidence--I have been very busy putting together a schedule for school. As luck would have it, the only DaF (Deutsch as a Foreign Language) class available at my level is "intensive". Which translates to "the class that will take over life as you know it". Class meets four days a week, ten hours a week. To put that in perspective, other classes meet once a week, for two hours. That's five times more class time than any other language levels. I am either going to go insane, or gosh darnit I will know the German language so well I'll be dreaming in it.

The only other classes available in English are all literature courses, so in order to be considered full-time I will be taking the following classes:
Literature: Edgar Allan Poe: Excentric Innovator Across Genres
Literature: Ernest Hemingway
Literature: A History of Comedy
Literature: E.M. Forster
Literature: Science Fiction and Alternate Worlds
Literature: Scott Fitzgerald

My inner nerd just fangirl squealed. I am going to be drowning in so many amazing books... I can't wait! Granted, all of these are seminars, which means classes sizes of thirty or less, and virtually no absences allowed. As well as a massive workload and an hour and a half oral presentation. For each. individual. class.

If I die, I die a well-read, educated woman.