5/25/2010
I woke up really early today sometime between 05:00 and 05:30 without doing so purposely. The ironic part about this is that when you account for the time difference between France and Ohio then I woke up at about the same time of K-Mag’s accident exactly five years ago. It doesn’t seem possible that all of those things happened five years ago. Paying attention in class today was difficult just because I kept thinking back to all of the events that occurred in that following week and I kept thinking about what people back home were doing today and thinking about. I wish I could be there. I’ve also been reflecting on the past five years today. I can see that he had an influence on the direction of my choices and he really did lead and exemplary life. I definitely think that Kyle would have made it into Ohio State and he would be living it up there and probably would have made the ‘best damn band in the land’ in the marching band. I miss the connection I had through and with Kyle to the friends from New Bremen. I can still remember coming home with him after our longer than usual confirmation classes in the months leading up to his accident and having some in-depth conversations about our future and hopes and dreams. Of course I’ll never forget how he would always make fun of me for my technique of eating yogurt (in particular the Dannon Le’crème). I know there is no way I could have made it through those hours, days and weeks following without all of the support from my friends and the school for allowing us the freedom to do what we needed to do and also all of the words and helpfulness from those I barely knew. I’ll always remember how our class bonded in the hours and days following. I was blessed to get to spend a lot of time with Kyle growing up with our almost daily bike rides and some longer trips to Ft. Loramie for ice cream. I miss ya bud and know you’ve been there in some crucial moments since.
Once we got to class today we learned that our professor from Audencia that gave two lectures last week and was scheduled for this afternoon and tomorrow morning had a heart attack in the morning or overnight. So, Dr. Sullivan had to step in today and lead some last minute case discussions. After class and while checking Facebook messages, I found out that my distant cousin Stefan in Berlin that would be leading us around Berlin this weekend just herniated a disc in his back. It looks like he won’t be able to take us around Berlin, but we are still planning to come up and they’ll be able to go out to their town festival. Hopefully he’ll recover this week and will be back to a better condition by the weekend!
I walked to the local cathedral today just to stop in for a few minutes since I haven’t had the opportunity to get to church for the past two weekends. Ironically an evening mass started literally the second I walked in so I ended up sitting there and attending mass. I have to say that just closing my eyes and listening to the mass in French (especially the singing) was amazing. I really enjoyed it and was glad I went.
Dinner tonight was tough. The lasagna with fish chunks was pretty good, but the cucumbers cut lengthwise was extremely difficult to get through without showing a face. It looked really good because I thought it was pasta, but I was sure wrong. Thank god we had brownies and a fruit salad with a leech fruit from China to wash away that disgusting taste from the cucumbers.
That’s all for today.
