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first...i hope this video works. i made it with Picasa - i love that program! i wanted to put music behind it, but unfortunately for some reason, my computer was not reading my music files as MP3s, so idk...anywho, here's my walk to school. ugh. the size is really small. sorry...i don't how to make it bigger. or if i can. lol.




other stuff...let me think. i have really started getting to these podcasts while i've been here. its from, well, i'm not sure if the company i called this, but How Stuff Works. i mainly listen to the podcast by them called Stuff You Should Know. its done by two guys who crack me up. and i just started subscribing to another one of the their podcasts called Stuff Your Mother Never Told You. hopefully i'll like it. its like every week i get a good twenty minutes of factual interesting information on all sorts of topics. the last one i listened to was How Redhead Work. so i know all about how my hair came about through genetics, and no worries...we are not going to become extinct.

something i am definately looking forward to when i get back home is the lack of staring that will happen. no only to Florentine women feel the need to prove their dominance over me by staring at me nonstop, but i keep getting the once over from really old men. its so gross. i mean, i think that's sort of part of the culture here. a vast majority of couples seem to be really cute younger girls with (what i think are) not very attractive me in their 40s and 50s. plus the percentage of men who cheat on their wives or girlfriends here is really high, something like 80% here. i think its like 70% for women. but still...i would like it if i didn't get oggled at when i walk down the street. yuck.

what else is going on right now? well...i'm almost finished with Harry Potter number 7...the British version. some of you may be saying "what are you talking about?" well thanks to sam w. i learned that J.K. Rowlings books are changed by editors in America to make them more "American." its really not that big of a difference, but to me, its sort of weird. knowing that she originally wrote them a certain way, and then the words and phrases got changed around. i mean we are talking stuff like American English spelling vs. UK English spelling. and words like "blimey" and "mate." haha. it makes it more authentic to me at least. so i've bought the British versions while i've been here - 3 books actually in London - and i've reread them. its pretty good entertainment considering i don't have internet at the apartment or tv.