Thanks to people who commented, I guess more people read this than I thought.  I had a great time at banquet, my christmas gift got granted, which was very spiffy.  I now have a Caution: Wet Floor sign to put up when I mop the floor, it makes me very happy.  The whole evening was good, I loved the Palm seniors' Rudolf, it was the best act I'd say, though the rest were good too.  I get to go to Liel after lunch today, yeah!!!  White Elephant exchanges are so fun.  Anyway, I should get going and go to church, but I hope everyone has a wonderful day.

Well, its been a while since I last commented, last time it was thanksgiving, now we just finished christmasifying the dorm.  That's always happy, I did my annual mistletoe picking for the dorm with Janet and Esther, and the smell of the christmas tree is nice.  Its wierd that we only have what, ten days of classes left? 

I always seem to be writing about how time has slipped by, time never seems to go slow enough for us to really enjoy it, well, for me anyway. I know some poeople just want time to fly by as fast as possible, but they also want it to slow down later when they get to where they want to be.  I feel like I'm just babbling, which I am, and really that's all I ever do on this site.  I've thought about just chutting it down and then stick to writing comments on other people's sites.  If you have any burning comments about that feel free to tell me, I think the main issue is that I'm too lazy to update and I don't actually write about deep things going on in my life, this site is just a little journal of major events.  Who knows, maybe it will stick around, now I should go do something productive...

                                                 I hope everyone enjoys the banquet,

                                                               -Alyssa

Thanksgiving was...yummy, I'm thankful that....  we get to sleep in tomorrow

       everyone can legally play christmas music now, scary that there are only a   few weeks left before break, kind of sad

but then again, the dorm is so nice during christmas, maybe I'll go put up my christmas lights, that would be verry fitting,

funny that it was so warm today,

Be thankful. . . it makes life much more pleasant. . . hope you had a good thanksgiving all,

Its been awhile since I last updated, I think my site is extreemly boring but it takes too much effort and time to make it interesting.  Besides, I'm too busy doing cooler things, like going to Berlin!!   It was so pretty and the weather was nice, we had a good group of people too.  We did so much, we saw almost all the major sites and went to museaums and cool stores, we also did alot of walking and riding in trains- but that was fun.  We had a nice hotel, of course, if you go somewhere with Frau Hill you know you're going to stay somewhere nice, but it was also cheap even though it included the price of breakfast and they let you take a lunch from what they served at breakfast, which even youth hostels don't even let you do.  We saw Checkpoint Charlie, the Gedachniskirche, the Berliner Dom, the Deutsches Techniche museum, and all the markts and platz's like the Alexanderplatz, Potzdammerplatz, and the Gendarmenmarkt, it was cool to see all the history and really get a feel for what happened in Berlin after WW2, I felt very much at home in the not redone east side.  We also got to see some fun things like the Cafe Julia from the german 1 and 2 soap operas, and the biggest chocolate store in Europe.  Of course we went to the Sony Center and lots of shopping centers topped off by the Ka DeWe, which I had alot of fun in cuz I got to go around sniffing all the sample perfumes and stuff.  I got to drink a cappucino in the cafe at the top of the KaDeWe close to the huge windows that look over all the roofs of Berlin at night and it was really cool.  Aside from all we saw and did I also feel that my german got so much better having to speak it so much over these past three days.  The funniest thing the whole trip was Jack and the mask- most definently.  Anyway, I need to go, but I hope everyone has a nice day and takes advantage of the day off to relax and go outside in the GORGEOUS fall weather and kick leaves around on the ground so you can hear the sound.