Worry

I feel a need to study German very hard over the summer, fueled by sheer panic. I am going to Germany this fall, and I am really afraid of not being able to communicate over there. Not with the Germans really- but the Junior class, which is mostly who's going. I feel like I speak a different language when I talk to them in English. Seeing we're only supposed to talk German while we're there, I am rather worried.

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How wierd is it that music as we generally experience it is disassociated from a person actually performing?

void

How dully in the mountains sound the feet
of them that bring good news
How dark are the mountains
and how wide is the void into which their words fall
how void is the heart into which they fall

They said if you spoke into the void
there would be light.
If you spoke into the void
a world would begin,
and a life would begin to unfold in the darkness.
But there is nothing here, and there is no light.

If there can be no light,
speak to the void
and make it empty
If there can be no life,
speak to the darkness,
and make it dark indeed
for you have separated the light from the darkness,
and named them each as you chose.

Shipwrecked

This is by the Gothic Archies- and it goes out to my class. ( I love you all sooo much. )
This has been a great, if often disastrous ride, and though I'm not going to try and do it AGAIN, I would not have not gone through it for the world.


I can't think of a single thing I'd rather do
Than to be cast away on an island with you
No, I can't think of anything more heavenly
Than to have you shipwrecked on a tropical island with me

Shipwrecked with you
Shipwrecked with you
I can't think of a single thing I'd rather do
Than to be cast away on an island with you

Far from distractions and matters of state
We can quit smoking and quickly lose weight
Sleeping till noon and then staying up late
At latitude zero and longitude eight

I am a gentleman; should you get hurt
I'll make a tourniquet out of my shirt
You needn't do much, just sit there and flirt
And if it looks drizzly, I'll build us a yurt

I can't think of a single thing I'd rather do
And that's why I had to get rid of the crew
So I lopped off their heads
And dropped them into the sea
Just to have you
Shipwrecked on a tropical island with me

Shipwrecked with you
Shipwrecked with you
I can't think of a single thing I'd rather do
And that's why I decapitated the crew

How could I know there's no island nearby?
If I don't eat something soon, I'll just die
I wouldn't eat you, oh, never, not I!
So let's catch a shark and I'll make us a pie

What shall we use for bait? Lend me a hand
I'll sew it back on when we get to land
But if the shark takes it, that would be grand
(Because we won't starve to death, you understand)

I can't think of a single thing I wouldn't do
To end up shipwrecked on an island with you
No, there's nobody I wouldn't kill, nobody
Just to have you
Shipwrecked on a tropical island with me

Shipwrecked with you
Shipwrecked with you
I can't think of a single thing I wouldn't do
To end up shipwrecked on an island with you
Again...