Greetings from Germany!
I've been delighting in exploring German food, and immersion is definitely a great way to get a little language jumpstart.  So far we have please, thank you, excuse me.  I'm staying with relatives, and they've been feeding us and showing us around, which is wonderful of them considering that their are six of us. 
My great aunt has compared our eating capacity disfavorably to my uncles' however... we are mere frail girls, and cannot put away as much!

Must run...almost time for dinner.

email exerpt: me to my family

"We went to the top of the Eiffel tower last night, and went to the Louvre this afternoon.  The Mona Lisa area was packed, but I was able to stand in tranquility later and gaze at two Vermeer's: the girl doing lace, and the one with the man and the globe.  

One main difference I’ve seen between Edinburgh and Paris, it apparently isn’t considered necessary to have your shoe color match any other color you’re wearing.  This gives you a lot more freedom.  Also, Parisian women wear astounding shoes, with heels almost all the time.  As a whole, they display far less midriff, but a little more shoulder than women at home."

"Read. Nuff Said."

So says a button handed out as part of a teen reading program sponsored by a public library.
When I first saw it I didn't see any problems with it. After all, reading is good, right? Better than all the trash on TV and the many revolting modern movies, for sure! Better than wasting time on Nintendo, Game Cube, and PS2, definitely!

But are they saying reading is good in and of itself? Because if so, they're wrong.

Here is my interpretation:
Reading can't save you. [public library]
Art can't save you. [NEA]
Education can't save you. [public education]
Government can't save you. [all of the above]
God can save you. [see the Bible for more information.]

Reading, in and of itself, isn't redemptive or good in any way. It can in fact be harmful- a steady diet of anti-God propaganda will affect you, whether its through movie, television, book, magazine, or radio.
Heather has Two Mommies? Nuff Said.

Well, my roomate Emily left at five this morning, so I've been up since then although I don't have to leave until 7.15am.
I'm repacked and the dorm room is clean.

What can I say? CWSC was great. Douglas Wilson's sermons on Confession, Bitterness, and Life Between the Sexes were very good, George Grant's ability to use the art of rhetoric to make you see the vision that he's seeing is amazing, and Steve Wilkins told us about the Venerabe Bede, among others. He told us that the Bede died singing the Gloria Patri.
I've met some wonderful people, too, like Charity, whose family just adopted three boys out of foster care, and Natalie, whose family is caring for five foster children .
I aquired a Peroutka button and some books. :-)
I'm sad its over but glad I'll be home again soon

Well, I'm flying out late tonight for the
Christian Worldview Student Conference 2004, so I'm pretty sure no blogging for a week.

I'm packed, so far as I know. I haven't remembered anything to put in my bag lately, anyway. *remembers something* Aha!
I put sticky notes all over my closet door to remind me of everything:
- Return Heather's book
- Write thank you's
- Pack toothpaste and shampoo
- cell phone charger
- pack shoes
and others...

Cya'll in a week. :-)