Andrew’s World

I got up right in time this morning to print out my Geography homework - a prospect we had to do about the Erzgebirge. Glad that I did it, 'cause Mrs. Proß collected it in. Geography itself was rather stupid. Now we're talking about the forest again. I'd rather do some topology stuff or learn where to find world's countries and their capitals. We also had the task to create a mindmap, which I did together with Sabine (who's sitting next to me in Geo), but we didn't manage it in time, so it's only about 75% finished. I hope it won't be evaluated. Laura had told me that Julia was *very* embarrassed about me congratulating her at the bus' glass. I never thought it would, 'cause I would really like it when someone (even some random someone, as I am to her, most likely), and now I have a really bad conscience about all that. I'm sorry... :(
But I don't think she's mad at me, she didn't look angry and in P.E. she seemed happy, too. She always seems so happy.

In English we spoke about the use of the articles in English (definite, indefinite and none). And there was a sentence where we had to fill in the fitting articles. One was "__ dog is __ only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.". I had written the for both gaps, but apparently the first gap needs a, and only a. How so? The second gap is clear, but why "A dog..."? I know that in the sentence it is meant "Any dog", but isn't in this case the more appropriate or at least possible? I mean, we also do use that in German: "Der Hund ist der beste Freund des Menschen." (The dog is the best friend of man.) - Mrs. Rost-Menge said it's wrong, although I was completely sure it's right. And I seemed to be the only one. I'm confused... So what's right???

P.E. was okay. In the first half we practiced volleyball techniques. I sucked. I can't get the ball straight to where I try to aim. In the second half, Mr. Herzig ["Heäheäzich", klingt komisch, wenn man das ausspricht. *g*] put us all into 3 teams where we are about to stay for the rest of the volleyball period of our P.E. lessons. I'm in team A with Ulrike J., Susanne W., Susann S., Susann A., Johanna U., Julia U. and Ann-Christin B. - I guess that's quite okay, I'm glad I'm not in Julia W.'s team. >.<

Right after P.E., I went home with Ines and Melanie, where I got my bike, we brought Melanie home, I brought Ines home, drove back to Melanie and went to the P.C. with her. She had to buy something for her niece's birthday. We couldn't find the "Scene" doll with the dog, so she bought the "cool red cabriolet" instead. We also bought Thomas Mann's "Der Tod in Venedig" each, which is needed for German again (German class is *so* expensive!) and I looked for a good Latin dictionary. But they didn't have any I liked. Gotta look at Hugendubel... after eating (only) 3 cheeseburgers at McDonald's, I brought her home again, drove to Ines to tell her the plans for today.
Those plans were set up by Ines, we wanted to watch a movie at my place together with René. So I phoned René and Ines, after being home again, and at 16:30 or so, after me plucking plums in our garden, they both arrived. We went to the video store to rent a movie. I registred there as well. We had a hard time agree upon the movie and finally decided for Blade II. Back home we played a bit of GTA2, let Ines play while René and me watched Enterprise ("Carbon Creek", that episode rocked!). Then we watched the movie which was okay, I gave it 6 points on IMDb, which is the 448^th movie in my vote history. Phew. Then they both went home again.

René wants to become a policeman after school... hmm... hard to imagine...
"Guten Tag! Führerschein und Fahrzeugpapiere bitte, ihr seid mit überhöhter Geschwindigkeit gefahren. Isch schlitz' eusch alle off!"

I forgot to say: Laura was at my place yesterday for some minutes. Her internet and phone connection is currently broken, as they're switching providers. So she let me upload some photos Bruno took of Weimar and dictated me the text for her LiveJournal. I'd like to post those pictures here as well (I may, I asked for it). :)

• Laura standing in the street
• Laura reading the city map
• Yvonne, Laura and Johanna seem completely lost :)))
• Laura in the Goethe-Haus, enlightened
• Yvonne in the Goethe-Haus, seems scared
• Ohla, Ingmar, Bastian, Bertram, Julia U.

And the best one was a video Bruno recorded with his camera. 30 seconds, with Yvonne, Anne, Laura, Ulrike, Johanna and Julia. You simply *have* to see this video!
( Laura and I wrote a transcript, yesterday. )

Ever noticed the way your mind goes when slowly dozing of during a movie or anything?
As this happened to me a few times today, during Blade II, I noticed that again, while dozing off, I start to think differently. Subconsciously I begin to think about totally senseless things. In one scene, for example, Blade was fighting against vampires near a pool of blood. And while my lids were closing slowly, I could still hear them talk and thought what would happen if a vampire fell into that pool, and if he'd drink the blood or suck up anything of it through his pores. Weird, huh? I didn't think of that intentionally.
But the oddest thing is that my mind switches to other languages in that period, too. Even languages I don't speak fluently! So my mind automatically translates those phrases, but with many gaps. When someone in the movie said something about "I know...", I immediately thought of "...cognosco", which is Latin and actually means "to get to know", but still... I find this amazing. This also happened in Esperanto as well.

My mind is so strange... x_x

Не слышны в саду даже шорохи,
Все здесь замерло до утра.
Если б знали вы, как мне дороги
Подмосковные вечера.

Речка движется и не движется,
Вся из лунного серебра.
Песня слышится и не слышится
В эти тихие вечера.

Что ж ты милая, смотришь искоса,
Низко голову наклоня?
Трудно высказать и не высказать
Все, что на сердце у меня.

А рассвет уже все заметнее...
Так, пожалуйста, будь добра,
Не забудь и ты эти летние
Подмосковные вечера!

( Transcribed Version )