ITS COLD

Okay okay, I'll finally update my blog.  

So since december first... I've been to Scotland.  which was awesome!  We went to Edinburgh, it was coldish,  but clear and sunny while we were there so we got to climb Arthur's Seat and see for miles and miles.  Haggis is delish.  I liked Scottland quite a bit, I also enjoyed the fact that everyone spoke english.

When we got back from Scottland, I started having vision trouble, so I went to an opthomologist and found out I had a detached retina.  Which meant I had to have surgery.  It wasn't so bad, no worries.  The doctor I had is world known for this surgery and people fly in from all over the world to have her do it, and the parents were already scheduled to be here for Christmas vacation the day before I had surgery.  So, the surgery went well, retina is reattached, hospitals stays are never fun, but everyone was really helpful to us, and tried really hard to make the language barrier easier.  Anyway, it was a surgery to get it to self heal and it's doing that nicely, plus the doctor knows retinal specialists in dallas that i can go see.  So yay!

Then, we got the okay go from the Doctor and went on our Christmas trip to Spain, Portugal and Morocco.  It was a  lot of fun.  We did a bus tour, so it was all guided and we didn't have to plan anything which made Dad happy.  We met a lot of cool people and saw a lot of cool things.  I think Portugal was my fav.  We spent New Years in a restaurant on the Tagus and danced, ate and drank the night away.  Morocco was really neat, I rode a camel, got married and divorced, saw some cool mosques, haggled for some awesome jewelery, went through markets, saw snake charmers, monkeys and flying carpets drank a lot of mint tea and watched Casablanca. Ps, casablanca isn't that cool.  Spain wasn't as cool as I thought it would be, but I really liked Sevilla and Toledo.  

Then I cam home.  Now I'm just finishing up classes and getting ready for finals in two weeks and trying to fit as much fun into my last bit of time here as I can.  Today we went Ice skating after it snowed all day, the first snow of the year! it was pretty.  We went and saw a play the other night in German, that was really good.  It was a modernized version of Shakespeares Alls well that ends well.  All I know anymore is that it's really really cold.  And that Friday we are finally going to go see Twilight in theatres and I'm excited.  :)