Typical Hamburg weather is back

Lately the weather has definitely been summery.  I was just about ready to go buy a pair of shorts last week.  Then yesterday and today it got gloomy again, with lots of wind and some scattered drizzles and showers.  This is the classic Hamburg weather . . . overcast and rainy.  I think I hit it on a really good year, because overall we've had very little of this kind of weather.

Busy weekend ahead!  So glad I didn't go to Vienna--I've got a TON of schoolwork to do!  Book illustration class is tomorrow morning, and then mezzotint class the rest of tomorrow and also all day Saturday.  Then comes church on Sunday. . . I think Joey might want me to lead worship this week.  He said to call him tomorrow.  That's not much of an extra commitment, I guess, except I will probably have to be there early after all my other weekend craziness.  Phew!

However, the projects are all going well.  I'm happy with what I've done so far.  I just wish I were further along on everything!  Pretty much all of us international students have been kind of messing around all semester, going places, doing activities, hanging out with friends, and now we've all entered the "Oh snap, we've only got two weeks till finals" phase and are all holing up in our rooms spending hours on our projects.  Kind of funny.

Ended up not selling my ticket to that other student.  I called Germanwings today and they told me that when you added up all the fees for changing the name and adjusting the flights, it would be like 200 euros!  So I messaged the guy and told him that unless he felt like paying that much, there was no deal. Of course he didn't want to pay that much, so the ticket will remain unused.  I felt bad for having gotten his hopes up, but I had NO clue a budget airline could charge so much to make adjustments!  The guy was bummed, but not at me, just at Germanwings.  We were both kind of saying, "Oh well, at least we tried, but SERIOUSLY! Why are airlines so ridiculous?"  Anyway, that's that so I don't have to worry about it anymore.  There will just be an empty seat on the plane to Vienna tomorrow.

Joanna and Emily, you'll get a kick out of this: I started writing a new song today in '80s style.  Not finished yet, but it's definitely off to a good beginning.  It's a fun one and I'm purposely giving it semi-corny lyrics.

Also got a collaborative project going on with some of the other international students.  Marni and I started it up last month--we made a Facebook event and had everyone share photos of Hamburg, then voted on a favorite one and cut it up into pieces.  Everybody got two pieces, and they had to do their own version of those pieces either by hand or on the computer and then send them back to me.  We're going to put them all together to make a big image.  Lots of fun, though it is a bit of extra work!

Must sleep now!!!