Crossing Borders / Climbing Mountains... The Usual

Well, new chapter, new country, and new flag to place on my wall. I'm happy to say I have now been to Austria. Innsbruck to be specific. And not for any average tourist event. No. I went for a volleyball tournament. An Adventist volleyball tournament. If I count I believe that there were people from at least 14 different countries around the world. This is the point in the story that I would love to tell the story about how the two teams from Collonges placed 1st and 2nd in an epic (adventist) battle, a story to be passed down through the ages. However, by some higher power, I am obligated to be honest and tell you that this was not the case. To be honest, Collonges 2, my team, did not do as good as I hoped. I'll just leave it at that because I do not wish to cry on my laptop. After all, I shock myself nearly every day with my converters so no reason to do it even more. Anywho... it was a very good time despite our lack of winning. Also, I was able to have my first experience with the German language which is a bit confusing and also my first experience with Christmas markets which are so awesome.

The following Monday was terrible. Over the whole weekend there was a poor sleep to activity ratio going on and it hit me the day classes started. But I guess that I had to pay for having my fun. Today, whats left of it, is Tuesday and that meant that I did not get anything accomplished. Why? you might ask. Well tuesday is the day when I go to ESM class where my mountain studies class goes out and does some form of ecip rock climbing or hiking. This means that my entire afternoon is taken up by some activity which is very fun indeed. Today was a technical hike across the Salève involving some rock climbing and repelling which was good times indeed. Why, you might ask, is this a problem? Well because I should be studying and catching up on all the missed homework fromt this past weekend as well as preparing for my oncoming tests and presentations. Also, I should not be wasting even more time by blogging, but thats a different story. Fortunately, all of these things are Future-Derek's problems. That is why Jonathan and I have decided to call Wednesday "Hangover day." Because on Tuesday we have all the fun and partying and when we wake up on wednesday we have deep regret for what we did yesterday... Minus the drinking that is implied with the word "hangover."

Well thats about it for now. I'm going to keep this one short because I need to study/catch up on my sleeping. So chao for now and thanks for reading.