Thanksgiving!

While it was hard being away from friends and family for thanksgiving, instead of hanging around in London I took my last trip to Germany for the semester. Charles and I made our own humble Thanksgiving meal on Thursday. Charles even cooked our own little Turkey, all 4 pounds of it!
In total, we went to three German markets: Amberg, Regansburg, and Nuremburg. Regansburg was a big disappointment, so we headed back to Amberg (the city Charles lives in) and found that their market was much better! But I would have to say that the Nuremburg Market was by far the best! We got plenty of German treats during our walks through the city centers, we even got Gluewein (mulled wine) and a couple of souvenirs!
Today has been a very successful day! I have had grad-school deadlines looming over my head since I have gotten to London and they are coming up Very quickly. Instead of going out and doing Chistmas-y things, I stayed in Vandon house and got 3 out of four of my applications completed (Duke, LSU, and UW)!!! All that is left is my application to UT Houston and for my professors to send in their recomendations.
On another note, during my application process I stumbled across the daily announcements for TLU and found out that I am one of the 2009 Who's Who students at TLU! It was a complete surprise, I had no idea I had even been nominated, but no surprise to find out that it was Dr. Laird (my advisor) who nominated me. Anyways, I thought it was really exciting and a nice surprise during the stressful hours of completing online applications while the Internet was going in and out.
I only have two weeks left here, its bitter sweet. Tomorrow we are going to cambridge for the day, I think it was probably a good idea I got a lot of my school stuff out of the way todayso I wouldn't be stressed out the entire time thinking about it. This way I can enjoy the day!