goodbyes

I just spent the evening with two great people-

three hours walking and cooking dinner with Hanna.

three hours drinking beer and listening to music with Badi.

I'm going to miss these people. It's tough right now.

I'm thankful for meeting such great folks.

Both of them have concrete plans to come visit Chicago. I can't wait.

Bis dann.

U of C

probably the most accurate forum in which the University of Chicago experience is discussed:

here

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of ben kweller.

(klausur)stress

it's that time of the semester again... when German university students do their best UChicago impression and study their butts off for exams. No friends are available, everyone's pissy, and the sun shines beautiful and hot anyways.
I'm feeling the stress too. Turns out the Germans use a bookend scheme with their bureaucracy. The first month is hell, the 10 months in between they forget you exist, and the last month is shaping up to be quite annoying. I'm pretty much out of money, offices are only open from 10-12 every day, which isn't too practical for the student schedule, so I can't get much done. I need to officially leave the university, cancel my health insurance, and officially leave the city. And write two papers in two weeks. I am a bit stressed too.

But Thorsten is coming soon!

Bis bald, Chicago-

Alex.

we weresterdam

amsterdam is rivers and smiles and flowers and boats and bikes and bikes and bikes and bridges and blooms and rembrandt and van gogh and prince orange and firefighters from kentucky.

sam and i went local with rented bikes and rural with pitched tents. we wandered canaled boulevards for hours and hours, we sat on canaled ledges for days, we sipped espresso in canaled cafes for weeks. we simmered in the dutch oven until ready for dishing.

i've said it a few times this year: i could live here. bonn, vienna, köln, berlin, and onward. but the dam was different. i want to live there. i'll get me a black bike, a tailored navy blue suit with slick brown shoes, and i'll be on my way.

visit amsterdam. discounting the chi, the coolest city i've ever seen.


love, al!