WASSUP.  So we’re going to Bath this weekend and I think I’ve been corrected by British/Finnish people about how I say it like, twelve times this week.  I hope we don’t mess it up!  Exciting developments have taken place for this little trip:  we could not find hotel rooms, hostel rooms or travel lodges for the weekend.  There’s some big literature conference happening.  So we’ve resorted to www.couchsurfing.com.  Mother, do not flip out.  “Couchsurfing” is a large, global network of people that will let people stay at their houses during their travels for free.  There are 70 of these people in Bath.  Courtney and I signed up, and we found a really adorable young couple that have hosted over 30 people/groups.  They’ll take up to four people, so the four of us girls are going to try and stay with them on Saturday night.  The boys are hopefully going to be staying with a guy and his roommates in a dorm at the University of Bath.  We haven’t heard back from these parties yet, but hopefully they’ll get back to us by tomorrow.  Our couple’s first musical interest was Sufjan, so we should get along just fine.  So I’m totally pumped about that.  I think we’re going to try doing this while we’re in continental Europe over break.  It’s free!  You can repay your hosts by doing dishes or buying them a drink or something.  But after you’ve stayed with someone, you can positively or negatively review them based on your experience.  Our couple (Luke and Ariane) have about 30 positive reviews on their page, so we’re feeling pretty confident.  And there’s four of us staying with them, so it should be all right.  I’m really excited about it, and I hope it works out.

Otherwise, life at the house has been nice, as usual.  Yesterday all the students/wives made lenten dinner.  Actually, it was mostly Heather, but we all pitched in the food.  We had white chili, carrot and coriander soup, cheddar sandwiches and bbq chicken sandwiches.  It was so spicy, but delicious and satisfying.  Tomorrow night is Baked Potato night and “Lost.”  I’m down for that.

Classes have been going well.  Greek is getting hardcore.  Apparently Jenna and I have almost caught up to the Greek 2 class.  We’re on Lesson 17 and they’re on Lesson 19 in our books.  It’s been such a whirlwind of activity, I feel as if sometimes I’m going to drown in all the declensions and verb endings and tenses.  But we’ve been doing pretty well, I think.  I can always translate from Greek to English.  English to Greek takes much more looking up in the book, but I’m getting the grammar down and it’s becoming familiar.  I think we may starting reading the Gospel of John after break or something, and that’s pretty cool.  Reading the Gospel of John in Greek.  Who would have thought?  Greek classes are also getting pretty fun.  We had a translation day today and there were many laughs and good times.  So Greek is quickly becoming a favorite.  However, I’m also enjoying Liturgy and Reformation a lot.  What is going back to Concordia going to be like?  I’m not sure.

Jenna, Courtney and I have tea on Monday.  I’m pretty exciting.  We’re making mini-BLTs, caramel apples slices and blueberry scones with clotted cream.  And they better like it. 

Instead of Germany over break, we may be going to Rome and Florence.  Uh oh!

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