Just a good day

I heard from the Germans today :) From the University of Bochum to be exact. They ranked me their number 1. Now it is just up to DAAD program to place me there.

I already measured the distances to:

Mindy - 2 hours
Lena - Less than an hour
Paris - 5 hours
Lille - 3 hours

I am sooo excited!

I really hope Shane will get in as well!

Oh and here is the place where I will hopefully get to spend the summer. I didn't take it,

Bochum

I love

I love genuinely kind people. They are so awesome. And there are so few of them. And I wish I was one.

Stole it from my sister.

Doubt is the rust of life. Doubt holds you landlocked in paralysis unable to move either way. The time you spent doubting is the time you are not alive.
So, rid yourself of the doubt, take that step one way or another, your heart knows what is best, but take it right now.

English essays

I have to write a narrative for my English 112 class. We had to read a few samples. Every single one of them either describes a near death experience, deep philosophical enlightening that happened to someone, an emotional experience that shook the base of a person's existence or a combination of three.

I have never been on a verge of death.

I have not been philosophically enlightened enough to write about it.

And I really don't like re-living tragic emotional experiences.



I am writing my essay on how I flew the plane with my dad in the cockpit when I was five years old.  It was fun :)

You can not.

You can not expect one relationship to satisfy all your communication and interaction needs. And no I am not talking about dating multiple people at once. I am talking about developing and maintaining deep and meaningful relationships with one's family and friends.

I feel like I am dissolving in my relationship with Shane. Not completely my fault though. My best friend Natalya moved to SC, my sister (and best friend) Mindy is in Europe, my best friend Lena is in Germany, Jazmin, who I grew really close to over 10 weeks and who is also surprisingly one of the most awesome friends I have had, is in Arkansas. Trevor left, Anjan left, my mom, my dad, my brother are all so far away. I miss them all so much.

I love Shane. I love hanging around him. But I need to be with someone else at times. Like I used to go out with Natalya or Mindy, or even friends I used to have in college. And I don't don't don't want to be that girlfriend who only has her boyfriend for her friend.

I want, I need a female friend. A shopping companion. A go-out-for-dinner and chat buddy.
Or a gay guy. That would work too.

There isn't much to choose from though. I am the only girl in most of my classes.
And I don't really have much in common with most girls I meet.

Yea, thats it.

Pizza!!!

 Here is the wonderful recipe I found and it is delicious:

Crust:
2 c. flour
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking powder
3/4 c. water
1/4 c. vegetable oil

Preheat the oven to 425 F. Mix flour, salt and baking powder. Add water. Knead the dough. Roll out into a pizza-like shape. (Shane and I tried to make it a square or a circle, but it ended up being a rectangle with rounded corners). Put some vegetable oil with just fingers on top of it. (We used the oil with spices already in it). Put some basil, oregano and whatever else might taste good on pizza on the crust.

Bake the crust for 5 minutes.

Take it out of the oven and put pizza sauce, cheese, stuff (tomatoes, mushrooms, pepperoni, ham, green onions, green peppers, whatever else might taste good), cheese on the crust. Sprinkle Parmesan on the outside of the crust. Bake the pizza for 15-17 minutes :)

Wonderful

 I woke up to a kiss today. 

I love it. It feels so good.

 I feel much more inclined to get out of bed, than when I wake up to the annoying sound of the alarm. It went off three times today without me hearing it. Unless Shane made it up.

I also talked to my mom and my brother yesterday and my dad and I seem to have established email communication, so I am finally in touch with my whole immediate family. Yay to that.

Also I finally did the laundry last night. It feels good not waking up to a bedroom with a pile of clothes in the middle. I just need to finish it up today. And I need to clean out Simba's litter also. It is  hard to breathe in the laundry room.

As a side note, Shane and I  made the world's best pizza. I found the recipe on cooks.com. It is a yeast free dough and it only takes about half and hour to make the whole pizza (including baking time). That's less time than ordering pizza at pizza hut. We made bread sticks also. I will put a photo up with a recipe next time we make it. You will see it's good. 
I also wrote my English paper. Seven pages describing my flying adventures. Now I need to write my history paper only. I think that's what I will do, since there is really nothing else to do at work today.
(*Instead I am talking to my sister. Time well spent*)