just a quick one.

okay first.
i just spent quite some time messing around on my gmail accout and wow do they have some cool features on there. have you looked at all of their "lab" features they offer? they are called lab features because they are still working on them and getting all of the kinks out so they don't guarantee that they'll work perfectly but they've all worked great for me. i just sure gave my gmail account a face lift, and added some cool new features. i can now text people from my gmail, nbd. if you guys want to try some new lab features just go to your settings and then go to "labs," right side. DO IT.

2. we wanted to go on a cool trip this weekend because today (thursday) was a holiday so we'd just skip school tomorrow and have a FIVE DAY WEEKEND. we considered paris, italy, luthuania (that one was so cheap! but we had to google it to see where it was...) and prague. turns out we didn't do anything. so we're going to school tomorrow real cool.

3. but we did have a yummy dinner with our BYU study abroad group! it was delish...we had schnitzel. turns out thats delicious. a few of the guys who served missions in germany (so they know the food ya know) cooked for us all and then we chipped in for the cost. thanks guys! fun. and good company. we have a great group here.

4. so on saturday we're going to poland! it's only a one day trip, but it's like 7 euro i think. bargain! so that will be fun. we'll just check out the city...you know. say that we've been to poland. i think in 2 weekends we are trying to go to prague! that would be a REAL fun trip...it will be a weekend trip and we'll be staying in a hostel. hope that one works out.

5. we got handys! handys=cellphones. the byu studyabroad program is paying for it and then they'll pass the phones down to the next program who comes, brilliant idea really. and i mean you'd think that it'd be fine without cell phones but honestly there were SO many times that a phone would have come in handy. (hah. handy...) exhibit a. when our host family locked us out of the house. we went next door to the brothers house and knocked on their door because they have a key too but just so happens they were gone also. (oh ya...i forgot to tell you we don't have a key. but the couple is ALWAYS home. well..almost) conveniently both gone at the same time to their grandaughters bday party. well mench it was sure cold outside. they were gone for an hour and a half. too bad they're great so we couldn't be that mad. just cold. but if we had had a phone  we could have called our friends who live at the other house and told them to come to us. or figured out how to get to katie's house. basically we had no other option but to SIT there and wait. ya know? exhibit b. we were supposed to go and meet katie at this certain trainstation at this certain time BUT when we went to go there was something wrong with the trains so we never got there. couldn't call her and explain. just told her the next day! sad! exhibit c. the electricity problem. if we could have called our friends that would have been WAY more ideal and less of a scary issue. see what i mean?? man how did people survive without phones.

oh ya...the catch with BYU paying for the phones is that they only put 10 Euros on the phone and every text sent it 19 cents and every call is 29 cents. soo...we're going to use these sparingly. but the point is that we are not alone in the world.

h. it is really cold in this house. i don't think they use heaters. like they have heaters the question is whether or not they are on. i mean our heater is on full blast (they each have an individual knob to change the heat over here) but there is definitely no heat coming out.

7. the crepes are really good. i mean. we need to give ourselves a limit.

8. all of our friends are getting sick. i don't want to get SICK or i will just be angry. spitting angry. (what is that quote even FROM. i say it all the time. hmm. i'll get back to you on that.)

9. hahahaaa we watched get smart last night...could steve carrell be any funnier? i am telling you.

10. watch justin bieber on oprah. i'm telling you. you WON'T REGRET IT. i'm serious like even if you aren't a fan there is seriously no way that you can't just smile at him. he's so just sweet! and i mean adorable. i don't even know how that happened that i'm 21 and he is 16 and i like him this much but oops it happened.

11. i need to do my homework. this was super random. pictures coming sooooon.

12. ps. i stopped wearing my retainer for QUITE some time and recently wore it again. NOT A GOOD EXPERIENCE. i mean it hurts! wow. so i've been wearing it like every night now for a week so as to make sure that we are good. remind me to not forget to wear it again. kthanks.

tschüss!!
(common "see ya later ish" thing to say over here.)