Here's the Deal-e-yo...

Well talking with Mom, Dad and Leah this evening I realized that they don't even really know all of my plans for the rest of the year, so I think it's safe to say that you probably don't either. An update on what I have been doing with the family in town this week is forthcoming, but if you're interested in my plans, here is how the rest of my time in Europe is shaping up:

I have already taken two finals, so those two classes are completely done. Tomorrow I am giving a Powerpoint presentation that will finish up my third class. My last class (the Economics class) will continute meeting until I take the final for that on December 19.

Mom, Dad and Leah are leaving on Friday morning, and that evening I am taking a bus to France for three days of skiing in the French Alps. I will get back from that on December 8 from that.

On December 18 my friend Mike is arriving from Colorado to travel around Europe with me for the hollidays. I will take my final on the 19th, then on December 20 we will fly to Brussels to start our trek.

We will spend a day or two in Brussels, then take the train to Aachen, Germany, where we will stay for a few days (including Christmas) with some of Mike's relatives who live there. Aachen is also home to a world-famous Christmas market leading up to the holliday, so we will no doubt see and experience that.

Sometime between December 26 and 29 we will make our way across Germany to Prague. We aren't sure yet if we will be making the trip direct, or if we will stop somewhere along the way in Germany for a day or two, but we will probably just go with whatever looks like the most fun at the time. The plan, though, is to get to Prague in time to spend New Year's there.

We will likely be in Prague (or in that general area) until January 4, when we will fly back here to Barcelona, and then Mike leaves to go back home on January 6.

Then, I have a few days free in Barcelona from the 4th to the 13th, during which I will either lay low or try to make another ski trip somewhere inside Spain (if my money holds up that long). On the 13th I will meet with the incoming BCA group for next semester (including a friend and fellow Bethel student, Blaire) for dinner, and then on January 14 I will fly to Madrid to spend a couple weeks there with the Bethel Interterm trip there.

We will be in Madrid from January 15 to 27, and then I will fly home, and hopefully be back in Newton sometime on January 28.

So, that's what the future looks like for me. More on how great it has been to have the family here coming later!