The European Green Belt

I was just talking to Katie and she was telling me about a recent trip to Linz, a city near the old Iron Curtain.  It turns out that they are going to turn it into a wildlife refuge that will connect existing refuges and allow for migration!  Pretty awesome stuff, and I think kinda similar to some projects that the USA.  It would be really cool to visit this when it is complete.

I won't go into much more detail, since you can find it all here.

http://europeangreenbelt.org/indoor.html

T-day, Italian style

Happy day-after-Thanksgiving everybody!  I hope you all stuffed your faces with tons of amazingly delicious food that would make me jealous to even hear about.  Especially the pies, mmmm how I miss the pies.

I couldn't let the day go by completely uncelebrated though, so after my last class at 4, Lamar (my American roommate) and I went to the store to scrounge up whatever we could for a T-day feast.  No 22 pound turkeys were available, so we got turkey burgers instead, and some potatoes to mash, a strudel for dessert, some green beans, and some wine to wash it all down!  Lamar and I cooked, and about 6 of us ate the feast.  Then there was some drinking, some inter-cultural jokes, and then we all when out to a club.  Definitely not my typical Thanksgiving, but a fantastic day spent with friends none-the-less.

I'm sad I didn't get to eat with my family at home, but I'm pretty excited knowing that I leave in 3 weeks to see everyone in Minneapolis!  It's going to be a wonderful holiday.

Sorry this is short, I've got to run to class now.  I'll post again soon.  

Love you all!

Photos, kinda like a real blog

I did it! I finally uploaded pictures from the past month or two. There are photos from hiking around Bolzano, my trip to Vienna, the weekend in Rome with Brad, and some hiking further out in the Dolomites!

Unfortunately, loading the pictures and putting captions on them took all my time, so now I have to run....

You'll get a big text update in the next blog, which will be soon.

Love you all!

(Pics)
http://picasaweb.google.com/quentins/

Blogging failure!

Once again, I apologize for the lack of recent blogs!  It gets really hard to think about organizing the pictures and stories in order to post a coherent blog about them, so I put it off and it gets worse and worse!  I'm almost done sorting through pictures from Venice, Vienna and Rome though, so those will be up on Picasa soon.

Mostly, I just wanted to say that I love my family very much and am really glad to have you guys!  I cannot wait to see you for the holidays, it is going to be the best Christmas present ever.  I just had a great nigh eating traditional South-Tyrolan food with some great people and drinking wine and grappa and talking about Europe and cultures and politics and whatever crossed our minds.  Then I came home and saw the great pictures from the Manning's visit in FoCo and realized how wonderful my family is!

Also, I now have a bike, which needs some work and oil and whatnot, but is super exciting.  And I think I am going to move out of Rainerum next semester, regardless of the cost, and that thought makes me really happy!  I hope you all are doing well, and I promise that you will get some pictures really soon.

I love you all.

Or was that a very Kinder Christmas?

I think I need about 50 of these guys to decorate my room!

The Christmas Market is coming

They're starting to set up the stalls for the market in the main
square, it's going to be so pretty and so much fun! I'll bring you
all something nice. :-)

Love you all!