Hergé Museum

i went off on a solo trip today to Louvain-la-Neuve (a confusingly named sister city to Louvain (which is the French version name of Leuven)). reason for going to Louvain-la-Neuve: the super fresh Hergé museum that was officially opened just last month. it was so so so nice, such a pretty building and nice museum. i'm glad they put so much money and effort into the museum, considering how great Hergé was.

not allowed to take pictures inside but here are pictures of the building itself (so cool, in my opinion):

Tintin 4 life.

http://www.museeherge.com

Exams

i'm currently studying for an exam and it makes me SO excited to go home. which is sad cuz this has been great and it'll be super sad to leave. especially leaving my new friends, and i know they all feel the same way about leaving. it's a bummer. but i do miss nashville and everything it entails.

it's gonna be such a good feeling to finish my exams.

tomorrow it's medieval mysticism in the low countries (my first oral exam) which i'm not extremely worried about but it'll be relieving to walk out that door after finishing.

friday it's myth & symbolism, an anthropology course. could be difficult cuz most of the course i was confused, but while i was writing my paper for the course things came together. hopefully it'll be decent. it's oral too, and that stresses me out, so again, it'll be amazing to finish.

the next monday is theology & hermeneutics of the new testament. this has been looming over my head for the past 2 months, intimidating me hardcore ever since i realized i would be talking one on one with the professor, trying to sound intelligent. oral exam. i'm gonna have to study pretty hard for the few days i have before it. this will feel SO good to finish. especially if i don't crash and burn.

after that all i have is an oral for film & literature, but it's basically a conversation about the paper i wrote with my partner, so i'm not stressed about that. don't really have to study or anything. but that's the very last thing so of course it will be cool to be done.

i'm getting so close. so so so close. i will be done with the hard stuff one week from today. can't wait. and i'll be home in a little over two weeks. hello home and family and friends and good ole summer timez. i look forward to seeing y'all.

Mustaches

picture of our mustache party at the beginning of june, capping off mustache may

zach won "creepiest mustache"

jeff won "most sinister mustache"

and i won "cutest mustache" -- what? oh well

...and then there's bianka who does not have a mustache

...i finished comparative european literature, had the exam this morning. not bad. glad it's done.

Glasgow, Scotland

oh yeah, glasgow was fun, too.

Glasgow, Scotland

saw luke and stayed with him and saw lots of cool things like necropolis and one night music festival and science center and star trek in imax and loch lomond and a pie pint and play and sterling w/ the william wallace monument and more! it was a good time.

London, England

I'm gonna be honest-- I'm a little tired of maintaining this blog. I guess that's because I tell stuff to mams and paps and, if anyone else wants to know, they can just ask. But, I went to London a few weeks ago. It was fun. Met up with Amy which was a huge reason for me wanting to go (I miss my friends from Nash and Hanover). Anyways we met up, went to the National Gallery (museums are free, cool), saw Trafalgar square and all that stuff with Parliament and Big Ben, ate some Indian food, went on a fat tire bike tour around London, went to a cool area of shopping called Camden, went to Buckingham Palace and saw changing of the guard, saw Chinatown, Salvador Dali museum, British Museum, and that's about it. Spent a lot of time walking and just looking at stuff. Nice weather.

London, England