And Houston We Are Green!!

Alright so the last few days have been very interesting. First things first, I finally went to meet Peter Dines in Pembroke on Friday taking Quasim and the fam with me. When we got there, honestly I was afraid that Tina and Dorothy (whom I didn't know was coming) was gonna chew me out because I didn't do this and that, and because it had taken me forever to do the stuff they wanted. I honestly came to the meeting Tina to actually say that I couldn't go because something I didn't do, or because she didn't think I was capable and all of that. However, to my shock and amazement, none of that occured. I met Peter who is a very nice German gentlemen with a thick English accent and he preceeded to explain to me about what is going to happen as of next Friday (oh my god that's close, I can't half type it) and what he told me had both really good and really bad in it.

The good stuff: I have my own apartment in Ludwigsburg, which is usually reserved for teachers and stuff, however in my case, they allowed me to have it. It has everything in it, via kitchen bedroom and stuff like that. So if I did decide to have someone come over....then we'd have the place to ourselves..hehe....anyway. There's that and in there's the train station which is an atonishing three minutes from the apartment, which can take you to Stuttgart or whatever, which is good. Come to find out Paris France is only about six or seven hours away from Ludwigsburg, while London is an good ten. So I'd be pulling another North Carolina to Florida trip making my way there. And they're going to open up an account when we reach Germany allowing me to access my money and all of that. And then the best part of all, is: It's GERMANY! I mean, come on. That's the shit.

The bad part: And there was quite a few of them. First off, I'm not sure how the airline is going to dismantle my wheelchair and stuff like that and how they plan on reassembling it when I reach Stuttgart. So that could end in horror, but I'll have to make sure it doesn't. The main bad part about all of this is: It's the classes. They have classes only once a week, which may sound like a good thing in the beginning but that's before you hear the rest. The system has something called ETCS credits which basically act like credit hours at Pembroke. They are at 2:1 ratio, which means that a class that offers 6 credits will only transfer to be 3 at Pembroke. Which means that I have to take at least 24 ETCS credits to be eligible for my financial aid and all of that. For me personally, I have to take at least 30, which translates to five 6 credit classes. This wouldn't be so bad if they didn't have those classes everyday. Or in other words, I've got a variety of different classes every single day. Which in truth, is gonna be interesting because it means that I don't have to repeat a single teacher for the rest of the week.lol. However add this to the equation of no supervision, and we've got trouble. Peter informed me quite heavily that Germany usually allows its students to completely do their own thing when it comes to studying which means that the teachers are going to tell you to do something and then give you a date to turn it in and that's the end. I had another class like this already (aka English 106 w/ Dr. Vela) and that didn't turn out as well as I thought. I don't like the concept that we can't get in class help on certain projects. But I'll have to find that out.

Oh yes, and let me add that Shon might not might make it out of high school after all. He's failing his Math class that you have to have to graduate. Oh so sad. It will be a sad day in the Neal family if he doesn't graduate. That's all I know.

12 DAYS LEFT!