The Battle

Hello and welcome to tonights event. There has been a lot of drama leading up to this night and I'm sure everyone is excited to see how it will turn out. The reigning champion (and fan favorite) Procrastination will be taking on long time nemesis Homework. After four long years of complete domination by Procrastination, Homework seems to finally be putting up a good fight and, in my opinion, will not give up easily in tonights battle. Lets take a look at the stats for tonights combatants.

Procrastination a.k.a. The Flaming Hawk
Total Wins: 525
Total Losses: 15
Best Win Streak: 319
Finest Moment: Not starting writing a paper until 4 in the morning after playing Medal of Honor all night and finishing paper 5 minutes before it was time to present in class.
Greatest Strength: Lotsa fun

Homework a.k.a The Fart Knocker
Greatest Strength: Properly prepares one for assignments and tests.
Greatest Weakness: Boring
Finest Moment: Nothing comes to mind

Well isn't that interesting, Procrastination shows all the markings of being lots more fun than Homework. But Homework does show signs of being "worth it in the long run". I tell ya, I can't wait to see the outcome of this, Bob.

Bob: Neither can I, Jim. Back to you.

Thanks, Bob. We'll be right back after these important messages.

Food.

Today, instead of going to the Wheaton football game I decided to stay in the apartment and eat junk food. Kit-Kats have got to be my favorite thing ever. Jack's frozen pepperoni pizzas come in at a close second. But if we're talking in ORDER that they are eaten, then it's Kit-Kats that come in second. You can't eat a candy bar and then wolf down a whole pizza. Chocolate is a dessert, not an appetizer. An ideal meal for me would start with a couple of Slim Jim Mild Beef Jerky snacks washed down with some nice smooth Minute Maid Lemonade. That really gets my appetite roaring. I then preheat the oven to 425 degrees and throw in a Jacks Pizza. While I'm waiting for the pizza to cook I might have a couple of handfulls of Cool Ranch Doritos. But the pizza only takes about 10 minutes to cook, so it's a very manageable wait. Once the pizza is cut I let it cool for a minute or two and check the fridge to see what I'll have to drink. Milk is pretty good, but I prefer Mug Root Beer. But really, anything'll do. Except water. Ugh, don't drink water with ANY meal. That's just wrong. Anyway, in order to eat the entire pizza I have to pace myself. Once it gets down to three pieces left I take a 5 minute break to let my stomach catch up with me. Some people might say that instead of taking a break I should just stop entirely and put the remaining pieces in the fridge for the next day. And to THAT I say, "For sooth!". DO I LOOK LIKE THE TYPE OF GUY THAT EATS PIZZA THAT'S BEEN IN THE FRIDGE ALL NIGHT? Pizza is to be eaten fresh! Well, I don't know how "fresh" Jacks Frozen Pizzas are, but still. You gotta draw the line somewhere. Where was I? I don't even know. All I'm really trying to say here is that Kit-Kats are good. Nothing else I've written matters. At all.

What Pressure

Imagine writing for plays and movies. Yikes. Dialogue? Yuck.

Using a Thesarus

Man oh man, I'm pretty tired right now. Well, more burned out than anything. I don't think I've ever been this haggard in my life. I just feel so petered out and pooped. I was walking down the street and I heard someone say, "Look at that boy, he looks so stale and spent." Their friend responded by saying, "I guess so, but I think he looks more weary and wasted." I turned to them and yelled, "I'm tuckered out, okay?!" Goodness, some people just don't know how to treat someone as drained as I am. If I were to use one word to sum up how I feel it would probably be exasperated. But also a little droopy. Fatigued works pretty well too. Maybe if I get a good nights sleep my brain won't feel so overtaxed. Yeah, that's what I'll do. I'll put an end to feeling drowsy and get some sleep. Sleep always makes me feel energized and fresh, but most of all it makes me feel invigorated.

Peter Pan

Wow, Neverland just keeps sounding cooler and cooler as time goes by. Peter Pan has got it MADE. If I'm ever given three wishes 1st I would wish to have only 2 wishes, then I would wish to be able to fly and then I would wish to never grow old. Or better yet, if I was given three wishes I would wish for just one wish and wish to go to Neverland. Of course, Middle Earth would be pretty tempting to go to. And I would LOVE to go to Hogwarts. Say maybe I would keep the three wishes after all and go to those three places.

Goodness

Well. This is pretty self explanatory I guess.



Hey. You can't expect the world to change over night.

The 1st installment of...

Of all the things that make humans awesome this one of my favorites.

Lib ra ree

Man, Wheaton Public Library has the coolest looking library cards. It makes wanna come here everyday to get books just so I can go, "Why yes, I do have a library card." Nah, anyway, I'm at the library right now using their computers because something is messed up with our internet at the apartment. So messed up to the point that it just doesn't work. But oh well. You can never eat your lunch out in the sun without at least a couple flies bothering you. You know what I mean? Maybe that's a little confusing. Ummm...You can never punch a stupid kid in the face without at least a couple people telling on you. No, that ones worse. You can never own an apartment without the internet going down at least a couple times. THERE it is!


Later!

Something new

Well, today I did something I've never done before. I went through all my photos and picked out the ones I liked best and made a little video out of it. HOPEFULLY I can put that video in this post. I'm guessing it'll work but ya never know. Sorry the pictures go by so fast but there are a lot of them and I didn't want to make the video too long.

Observe and Enjoy!

Here goes...

Hi. Welcome back to my blog. I haven't used this thing for a while now. Over a year now that I think about it. Crazy, time is flying by. Flying like a big dumb rooster. So I've decided not to let that rooster get away from me. Not this time! I'ma get out my shotgun and shoot that thing right in the neck and eat it for dinner! Basically what I'm trying to say is that I've realized life happens EVERY DAY and if you're not careful years will fly by like nothing and you'll forget what you're doing and how you got to wherever you are. So I'm doing this. Blogging that is. I'm gonna use this little treat of a website every once and a while to write down what's happening in my life. It will be cool to look back and read everything and hopefully have a nice little flashback of what life was like when I was living in Wheaton with Jaron and attending the College of DuPage.

WHICH IS WHAT I'M DOING RIGHT NOW! It's dang awesome. My classes are awesome, my brother is cool and my bedroom window is open letting mosquitoes in. Life ain't perfect man. K, so check it out. I'm not just gonna ramble on forever about nothing. I've got some pictures to show!

So I went to Chicago today because a voice popped into my head and said, "Going to Chicago today is a GREAT idea. Trust me." And said, "Oh, I trust you, voice. I trust you. First let me brush my teeth." Anyway, I got to Chicago and wandered around until I reached Millenium Park and saw THIS! (look below) It's a good thing I brought my camera. How often do you come across a buncha dudes walking around in kilts? Not too often in my opinion. But it's pretty standard issue when you attend the Celtic Festival! Man, it was crazy.



These dudes seemed pretty sweet. But check this out.



Yeah, and look what else was there.



A freaking sweet fountain! K, that has nothing to do with the Celtic Festival. But I liked it. If you want to see more Celtic Festival picture I suggest you come to Chicago and take them yourself. It's takes WAY too long to upload pictures on here so I'll finish just finish up this little post with woyds. I mean....words.

Well there it is. It's late so forgive my randomness. But if I keep up this whole "blogging" business you just might see realize that the hour of day never determines whether or not a new post will be random. So yeah. That's that.

I'm looking forward to Christmas. Is too early to say that? Maybe I'll wait until we're a little closer to Thanksgiving.

Alright so here is what's up

Yesterday my German class ended. It was alot of fun and I'm glad I took it. Now I just have to practice using what I've learned! It's challenging. So now that I have no class I'm staying with a friend of Vitus and Gail's for a week. It's a husband and a wife and four boys. A definite change of pace. They are very cool people and last night we went to see Walk the Line. What a good movie. So I'm not sure what we'll be doing this week but I'm looking forward to it. Then after being here for a week I'll go back to the Barmettler's for a day or two then Vitus is sending me up to his cousin's house in the mountains. That will be for a week as well. And yeah, after that there is just one week left of my trip. Not bad, not bad at all. Oh and I'm 18 now, so that's pretty sweet.

Castle Kyburg

This is where Vitus and I went on Sunday. It had been snowing the night before, snowing ALOT, so everything had a nice fresh layer of snow over it and the sun finally came out making it a great day for pictures. There was a castle in this small, awesome looking village and Vitus and I spent a good while there walking around and seeing the sights. All the pictures are from just outside the village and inside the castle. The picture of the poorly lit room with the Jesus on the cross and the knife hanging on the wall (and depending on the brightness of your computer you might be able to see the weird wheel thing on top of a pole) was the the old torture chamber. That was sweet. I suggest if any of you come to Switzerland, go to this castle. Because there's alot of stuff I didn't take pictures of.

K, so this is post number two of the day. I think I'll make a third where there is something actually useful to read. These first two posts were mainly for pictures.

Zurich

Well on Tuesday we finally got some sun so I went to Zurich and took some pictures. Hopefully this will give you a good feel of what it's like. And tommorow is my last day of class! Dadgum!

Another post is coming today. Maybe two more!

This and That

Hey folks, before I get into the random pictures I would like to say this. A new girl started coming to the German class this week and take a wild guess where she's from. Grand Marais! Isn't that incredible? Now with that out of the way, I shall proceed.

Obviously, the first picture is of clothespins. It's ideal for using as a picture for MSN Instant Messenger. The next one is me holding an orb of magical power I found it under my pillow last night. Then there's a picture of me hanging out with my shirts on a hanger. I posted the picture of the bloody toilet paper for two reasons. The first reason is to remind kids not to play with knives. The second is that I noticed one of the blood splotches resembles the shape of a heart. And I thought that was cool because I'm reading a book that is talking alot about the blood of Jesus and the importance of it. It's a good reminder that Jesus spilt his blood for us out of love. The last three pictures are of pen and paper. Now to clarify, in no way did I have a boring week and spend my time taking random pictures. These were taken over a good period of time and I wanted to share them, I'm not sure why.

So yeah, I have one week left of German classes. I must say it's been alot of fun. The people are great and the language is very interesting. It gets me up every morning and makes me use my brain (something that is very useful I find). And after that week is over that leaves merely three weeks left of my trip. Crazy. I plan on going to a couple more cool places with Vitus and going around on my own too just to explore. One of these days I'll bike up to that little village that was founded in the 1200's and get some sweet pictures. Pictures I will share with you all, whoever you all may be.

I like coffee and I like tea

Usually when I hear "Ski trip to the mountains" I think of being crammed in a van with a bunch of bags a ski equipment and having a 13 hour ride ahead of me. But that's not the case when you're in Switzerland. K, so I was still crammed in a car surrounded by ski poles and bags, but after a mere hour and a half of driving we arrived at our destination. I hardly had time to get comfortable in my seat. So that was pretty sweet. And yeah, we spent the week hanging out in the alps and skiing. It was beautiful, mountains we literaly surrounding us. All the pictures were taken just right outside where we were staying. You may feel like I need to tell you more about the trip but that's alll there is to tell. We skiied and hung out in the alps. And had an awesome time. We played alot of Uno. The only problem with going on the trip was that I missed a week of my german class. That may not sound too bad, but when the class is only 4 weeks long 1 week will get you pretty far behind. So today I will be trying to catch up on everything. That will be ALOT of fun. And other than that, there isn't much else to say here. I say Hello to everyone who reads this, and wish that you all have a good day (depending who you are, if I don't like you I hope you have a terrible day). Thanks for stopping by. And stay classy.

It's been a while

Well I just got back from skiing in the alps. I don't have time to put pictures up so this is pretty much just an announcement saying I'm not dead and I'll give ya an update soon. Tschüss.

Guten Tag!/It's a small world

(This post has two titles, you'll see why)

Hey folks. It's me again. Things are still going good here. Yesterday we went to the capital, Bern, that was alot of fun (sorry, no pictures, but it was beautiful). We were just walking around talking and seeing the sights and as we passed by some tables I heard someone say, "Have you ever been to Minnesota?" I thought that was pretty funny being that I'm from Minnesota and all so I just glance at the table and the guy who asked it is looking at me. It was then that I realized I was wearing a Gophers sweatshirt. To make a long story short he is from Minneapolis and is now living in Zurich and he knows of Mound and all that good stuff and we talked. Yeah. So I gave him my e-mail address and he might contact me sometime so we can meet in Zurich. I won't bring any valuables though, in case he robs me. So we parted ways and literaly ten seconds later I hear a guy say, "Hey, Minnesota! How about them Vikings?" Turns out that this guy is from St. Paul and we also talked for a while. It was crazy. So I pointed out the guy from Minneapolis and he said he was gonna walk by him and make some comment about how Minneapolis sucks, just to see what the guy will do. It was a good time, and there was much rejoicing.


I had my first German class this morning. As you can see from the title I already have a tremendous grasp of the language. I can hold at least a 5 to 7 second conversation. So that's pretty exciting. The class is 2 hours in the morning Monday through Friday for 4 weeks. I am the youngest (by far) in a class of about 12 people and the only American. There are people from Turkey, France, India and who knows where else. There is one particular fellow from Nigeria who I talked to after class while I was waiting for the bus. His English wasn't bad, I was catching about two thirds of everything he was saying, but he said that he is from Nigeria and is now living here with his wife. Then I told him I'm from America from the state of Minnesota and for some reason right after that he asked, "You Christian?" (he had to repeat it a couple times, I couldn't tell what he was asking, but anyway) So obviously I told him, "Yes I am." Right then he got a big smile on his face and yelled "Me too! I believe in GOD." And right there in the middle of the bus station we started talking about God and what He's doing in our lives and just how amazing He is and rejoicing and laughing and sharing all our thoughts and praises. It was awesome. Who woulda thought that a Minnesotan and a Nigerian who have known each other for two and half hours can so quickly have something in common that makes them feel like brothers. It was sa-weet. He had to leave shortly so that's all there is to tell so far, but I'll be seeing him alot. Perhaps there will be something more to inform you about in the future.



Auf Wiedersehen!

Umm...

Hmm...not quite sure what to say here. This is where Gail and I went today. I enjoyed it alot but I can't remember what the town was called. So I ain't got much to tell you. Things are going good here and it's alot of fun being around the Barmettlers. And that's all I have to say about that.