22 Mai - Asparagus

Today, Skylar began betreuung (child care) at his school for the next week while the kids are on holiday.  They went on a field trip to a glass blowing place.  Skylar said it was "ok."  

After dropping him off, I stopped by a fresh fruit and veggie stand and bought some white asparagus to make for dinner.  My insurance was approved, so I had to get one more piece of paperwork to the international office before I could register.  Of course I couldn't find it. It was the receipt of payment of my registration fees.  I tore apart my whole room and my backpack and couldn't find it.  So I went to the bank thinking they could give me some kind of copy of the transaction.  No.  They have no copy that they can give me.  What?!  I have to wait until the other bank conforms the transfer.  So whenever that happens, I can finally be registered.  

Then, I went on to my office, which was very quiet.  Actually the whole school seemed relatively empty.  I had a little trouble focusing and decided to look for things to do over the next few weeks.  It would be fun to go to a music show of some sort.  I found a really cool 5 day concert in Sweden and it would only cost 4 euro to fly there, but you have to be 13 to go, so maybe I'll look it up again in a few more years. Maybe we'll just take a trip to Sweden for the heck of it.  Sean showed me this google translate page where you just put in the website and it does it's best to translate it: http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en#.  Pretty handy little tool; gotta love google.  So I spent much of the day searching for music and dance, much of which was in Munic and Berlin.  I'm a little disheartened at the cost to go there though, sometimes around 100+ euro... I just thought places were cheaper and easier to get to around here... a little pricier than expected.  Venice is about 60 euro, which makes no sense to me.  It's a 10 hour train ride so will take a bit of planning.

I did do quite a bit of research on my actual book project and am increasingly interested in seeing how this system works.  It's got flaws, but it also has a really good foundation.  Diana stopped by and we talked about my trip to Amsterdam.  Lael (my adviser back home) would like me attend and additional class (Strategic Information Management) directly before the Masters class, so I would be there for about a week and a half.  Both classes sound cool and I can't wait for the trip.  I love Amsterdam.

Then I went and picked up Skylar from school and we played frisbee out in the yard for awhile and rode our bikes around the neighborhood.  Came back to make dinner and was very impressed with the white asparagus.  I had it in Amsterdam, but it didn't taste like anything special; this was delicious.   We watched Happily Never After and went to bed early so we could get up early for our Saturday adventure.