(From: Karen: Wow, sounds wonderful!! Be sure to plan to be home at least 24 hours ahead of your flight, don’t want any chance of missing that. It would be expensive to replace, you might have to spend the summer in Scotland!)

haha, that would just be too bad, might have to stay here for another few years.. i am looking forward to being some where a bit warmer though, and I think its warmer in France, but probably even warmer back home, its just been in the 50s here, which is decent, but not quite doing it for almost june weather. my plans aren't as exact for being back to stirling yet, because i think that i will be taking a ferry and bus combo to get back from northern ireland to stirling for a fairly cheap price, and these guys i know, know how it works, but ill have to look into it, and probably get the tickets before i leave

hi mom, so i just made this really awesome trip, i dont have all of the exact details yet, but i do have the flights/ferries lined up.. looks as if this upcoming saturday i will be flying into bordeaux, meeting up with my french friend, from there, going to his village i hope, going through the moutains of central france, to a town called rodez eventually, flying out of rodez, to dublin, spending a day or two in dublin, and taking a train or bus up to northern ireland to meet with a few of my northern irish friends, going around with them for a few days, to see what ever they think i should see, and eventually getting what will probably be a ferry/bus combination back to stirling on june 5th, after a long week full of european adventures

i dont have everything lined up quite yet, since i will probably be staying in the homes of some of these friends for some of the nights, but once i figure out exact final details, i will be sure to let you know,

looks like you went to colorado? seems like it would be nice this time of year? hope all is well at home though.. im looking forward to being home, but i think that i am going to miss all of the people that i have met here, but it will be nice to go around their home countries, with some of them for that final week,

love,

David

oof, these grades aren't going so well, i just got back one of my marine biology reports, and got what is equal to a B- on it, i got a C+ on the last one, but i think that i am going to have to put off this germany trip until after finals so that i can study for this test



never really found anything for my poison ivy rash, one of my flat mates mentioned that it might have been nettles though, whatever those are, but its still really bugging me



there is really no point to this message besides my complaining haha, but i am thinking that this semester is going to hurt my grades a good bit, and not really take me anywhere academically. I dont really think that there would be time for summer classes since they will have probably all started by the time that i get back



im also going to try to talk with my professors about this, but they are not very good at responding in a timely manner, and one just refuses to do much of anything, but there is really no other way of contacting him, since he doesnt have office hours



Im also fairly certain that the grades that i receive here get transferred back to our ABCDF system, and are not just pass fail, but im not totally sure on that



anyways, i hope that you are getting a chance to go out on your bike more, just raining, windy, and kinda cool here.. i think that i will be plenty ready to come home in a couple of weeks,



love,



David