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we walked by the water and soon we were at a harbor.  sailboats were anchored and birds flew around us.  the sun was warm and i could hear people in the background as they ate their ice cream and sipped their coffee.  and all i could think of was this day last summer.  everything reminds… Continue reading here

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sometimes words don’t come.  sometimes i sit and stare at the screen as i fish for the right words to let you know what i’m up to and how i am.  funny how my blog, which was only going to be for “creative” writing, has turned into such a newsletter of sorts –  pictures of who… Continue reading update

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so long

i said goodbye to my closest friends from bodenseehof yesterday. i said goodbye to my kindred spirit from bodenseehof this morning. and to make matters worse, tonight i spent €2,80 on one and a half pieces of pizza. sometimes life is not fun.

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every now and then i go back here to have a bit of fun reading over what i wrote at age fourteen and fifteen (have i mentioned that i leave childhood behind in a few days?).  i was so silly, so shallow, and so passionate about being a better person.  most of them the public… Continue reading oldies

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6th hour

last night we had “Swedish Night.”  there was much face painting and some dressed up like vikings (umm…er, where’d my picture of them go?).  and then there was our group who found €1 “Sweden” hats from the World Cup.  but after eating our swedish meatballs we took our hats off and donned our skirts and… Continue reading 6th hour