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I guess I have to go back to Tuesday, when I handed in my thesis. Had a day to relax and run errands and whatnot, then it was off to Holland to visit my Oma and Opa who are there visiting relatives right now.
It was very interesting to see all of the 'aunts' and 'uncles' and 'cousins' (all second or third I think) that I hadn't really seen since I was 11. Most of the trip involved sitting around listening to conversations in dutch (no, i don't understand dutch), but we also went to a couple of really beautiful, very old, little towns nearby and on the saturday my cousins took me out clubbing dutch style. The legal drinking age there is 16 and the club was huge (4 different dance floors, each the size of one of ours) with full fog, light, tv, and laser effects. oh, and a pool. but I was told if you went in the pool, you got kicked out of the club, which made me wonder why they had it there in the first place.

so after listening a whole lot of dutch, and picking all the cherries a person could humanly eat from the cherry tree in the yard, I returned home sunday night to a Viva Voce exam monday morning. The viva didn't go fantastically well. I think I held my own and babbled a minimum amount, but I did get the distinct impression that one marker in particular thought my topic extremely pointless. So I think I may be looking at an alright, but not great mark coming up (I won't know at least for a couple of weeks). Hopefully it will be enough to get me some funding...

But hey, it's now all over and I have nothing left for my masters but to wait. And I have nothing left to do here but run some errands and enjoy myself. This week holds two huge parties, the King's affair, and the king's graduate formal dinner. The affair is King's answer to a ball (which is what most of the other colleges have) and is instead just a massive party where we are allowed on the lawn (ooh!). I find it amusing that all the other colleges have themes like: 'the moon', 'through the looking glass', and other fancy things that I can't remember right now where they all dress up in formal gear... king's picks 'aftermath'. That's right folks, it's a post-apocalyptically themed affair. That means wearing ripped clothing and gas masks. Sounds like fun to me, and we'll be formal formal for the grad dinner anyways. gotta love king's.

And then I'm off on Saturday night. Weird. So weird. It's definitley coming up quicker than I expected. But I've got myself a 'learn greek' tape on my
(brand new!*) ipod and my trowel so I'm all set.

*my wonderful mother sent me an early birthday present with my grandparents... a fantabulous black 30 gig video ipod! I love it. My old ipod, though also fabulous, was having serious battery issues, so it had to be done. So exciting.

Oh! and the cows are back in the pasture. they're white and lovely.