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Review of 11th Grade

Well, people, it's that time of year again. The school year is almost over and it's time to review the school year. Grades are as follows: Math - B German - D English - A French - C Latin - D Geography - C History - C Computer Science - C Music - A Psychology - B Chemistry - C Physics - A Schlüsselqualifikationen (no way to directly translate that...) - A (List may be edited at a later date because I'm not sure they're all right.) Not my best year, as you can see, but I'm not sweating it. Next year, however, will be tough. Finals, theses and various other small projects await me. But then my high school career is over and I become a college student. Studying for free (!!!) in Semmering college of tourism management. Let's see if I can make it. Anyway, yesterday was the first and last showing of The Sound of Music, played by my mixed music class. I played Maria (the lead...ugh) and I've heard I was pretty good. My opinion? I was red in...

Twisted Girl

As I was playing Rummy with my mother, we were talking about swimming and taking $150 out of my American bank account (child support money) next month to pay for a year-round pass to a pool. I asked her what about college? Because the funds in the account were all going towards my higher education. What she told me: "Live a little. After all, come next year, we might not even be in Austria anymore." I looked at her incredulously and asked her what she meant. She said that if things went wrong, we might be moving. Wonderful. After that, I got to thinking about the past times we'd moved and somehow I mixed in a comment an Austrian friend had left on my Facebook account yesterday, about how she was so glad that I was going to stay in Austria to study so we could keep getting together as friends. It was just now, not 5 minutes ago, that I realized that I'm kind of a bitch. Every time I've moved before, I've promised countless people to stay in touch. I told th...