Chicken, Homeless Shelter, the Rhine.. Oh My!

So once again, this is the first time that I've written anything in a long time, and I fell bad about that.. but thankfully I finally have some time to kill here in the Istanbul Airport. Lots has happened in the past month or so..

I'll start with last weekend, I'm pretty sure it was last week, was a reealy busy one. After school on Friday, I talked with some people after school and mozyed around town, and made my way back up to the dorm eventually.. When I got back I saw some guys out on this grassy feild area thats near the dorm playing Ultimate Frizbiee, unfortunatly, by the time i changed into some clothes that could get dirty (it had rained recently, so it was muddy), the frizbiee game had morphed into a mud fight. After we finish things up and start heading down to the dorm, Cory (one of the RAs) comes out.. takes one look at us and trys to get away.. well once he got muddy we decided to go for round two back in the mud.
On our way down this time, we saw a couple of Palm girls in this little playground thing right between the dorm and the grass, we decided to try to freak them out.. on the count of three, 10 muddy (mostly shirtless) guys charged at them.. It took a couple seconds for it to register, but when it did.. they screamed and ran, luckly for us.. we had an alabi, it was April Fools! Man who would've thought that water and dirt could be so fun?!

A Long Weekend..Well Sort Of.

So this is my first attempt at changing what/how I'm going to be writing/posting things here on my blog.. Right now it's Sunday, about 3PM. I'm in the school hall/auditorium doing sound for a group of my friends that are going to be preforming with a famous Korean Saxophonist tonight.. So far this weekend has been good.. we had home-basketball games on Friday/Saturday.

 Friday night I was at the school watching basketball and helping Sono-Libero (a student literary magazine) with one of their fundraiser coffeehouses, after hanging around for a while, me and about 6 other people decided to check out a concert at the nearby German High-school.. We didn't really crash it because they did invite BFA to come, but we ended up being the only people to attend. One of the bands was "Yournextboyfriend", they were a punkish/hard rock band, sounded somewhat like Greenday or something similar, mostly predictable pop-rock sounding stuff, but the singer did throw in some growls and they had some metalish sounding parts too, all their songs were in English.. They weren't that bad.. The next performance was by "DJ Slayback, he did some cool mixes of mostly Pop stuff.. but nothing too special, it was still fun.

Saturday wasn't very interesting either, woke up pretty late, had breakfast and biked down to school for practice.. Not much else.. did some homework and went to bed.

Today has been good so far.. this morning, instead of going to church in town with everyone else, me and another sophomore, Max, went to a German church called G5, I liked it A LOT more than the normal church that pretty much all the BFA people go to. Even though I'm only in German 1 and I've only been in it for like 5ish months or so, I was surprised by how much of the service I could understand. What was really nice was that there was headphones with someone translating the sermon. I really wanna go back there.. it was really cool because on the walls either side of the stage they had "Wilkommen Zuhausen" which means "Welcome Home". Well that has been my Sunday so far.. hopefully I can find some time to do my homework and call my parents!

10PM Sunday:
Well it's all over now, I'm super tired and I have a headache, but the whole night went really well and I'm glad I got to help with it. I'm finishing an English paper right now, but after that I'm going to rest and hopefully I survive Monday.

-Zach

--Didn't end up as short as I thought it would be.. :P

Home...

Well, once again I apologize for taking so long to post something. Several times I started but I never finished and then finals came and life got really busy, but now I have a 6 hour plane ride to write.

I really don't know where to start, so much has happened, in the past weeks and since I started my adventure of boarding school. I suppose I could start with today and work backwards..

Snow!

Happy Thanksgiving! Well if you’re American, for any Canadians, happy belated Thanksgiving. Time has seriously flew by! it's hard to believe that in 2-3 weeks I’ll be back in the UAE! I will be so glad to be back in the heat, it’s already started to snow here! Quite a bit has been happening recently..

Last week, at the encouragement of my Biology teacher, I joined the wrestling team.. I only lasted a week. The first couple practices weren’t too bad, they went from the end of school (4ish) to about 5:30.. but by the time I got back to the dorm it was about 6. Then there’s extra practice on Saturday.. from 10 to 2! This past week I’ve been sickish.. a cold and cough etc.. so I didn't go to all them. This Monday I decided that it was going to be too much to continue on with wrestling so I quit.


Last night (Thursday..-if I can post this,which evidently I didn't..) it started to snow for real, it was raining,hailing and sleeting on Tuesday and Wednesday. -well a couple weeks later and I TOTALLY forgot to post this..




P.S. I'll be going on a photo excursion so check back for those pictures.-I'll put them up with another post that's coming soon!

Pictures I

I went on a photowalk the other day and here are some pictures I took..

hit the jump for the photos.

Sorry For the Wait?

Sorry for the long wait, hopefully someone out there actually cares that I haven't posted in awhile. :) But wow. It's really been a long time since I've posted anything. I've finally found time to write, my homework is done and I am in the mood to write! A lot has happened in the past two months! It really feels like it's only been a couple of weeks. I'm finally adjusted to the schedule and flow of the school and dorm life, it hasn't been too hard.. but lots of stuff has been going on. It's really hard to be bored here! There's always something to be doing, or something that you could participate in.

I really don't know where to start.. For one thing, my schedule is reealy different than last year.. I don't stay up till 2AM or sleep in. Bedtime is officially 10:30 for Underclassmen.. I'm usually in bed by then. Some nights I have so much homework I'm up till 12. I wake up at about 7, 6:45 or so on Fridays because I help with sound at chapel. School starts at 8:50 and ends at 3:50. That's a typical day at school..

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Lots of Stuff Happening..

Wow.. it's been a long time since I've written anything.. well LOTS of stuff has been going on. Most recently, our internet has been down.. again! I've been doing lots of homework and haven't had time to do anything on here, answer any emails or check facebook..

I can't believe it's been over a month! On one hand it feels like I've just gotten here and on the other it feels like I've done so much stuff that it couldn't be only a month..

I really dont have time to write anything more than this right now, I was supposed to be working on an essay.. But I'll definatly write a more detailed post soon!

So Seniors get to go to Rome for a week and Juniors get to go to Normandy/Paris for half a week.. Freshmen get to go to WWI trenches and us Sophomores get to go to a concentration camp from WWII.. I think we get the worst deal out of everyone.