Gotta go old school...
We have a Christmas tree, I wish you could see it. I have every possible crappy computer experience that one can have here…and now my digital camera is in on it too. I hate my computer and my blasted digital camera. I have damned them both…together…they have been working in cahoots. I managed to lose every single picture I have taken between now and October. I lost all of them. I have nothing. Thanksgiving- gone. Christmas-gone. Day trips and site seeing? -Gone as well. The only pictures I have were the ones I put online. That’s it. I have been fighting with my computer since I got to Mainz. My computer and digital camera worked fine in Radolfzell. Perhaps they pitied me since there was really nothing else to do…(we didn’t even have an internet café in that city, remember.) But, now that I’m here in Mainz, both of these electronic devices have turned against me. It’s always something: low or dead batteries, full memory card, incorrectly installed software, illegal operation windows…always something. Now, I have had it. I want to throw them both out the window but I can’t bring myself to do it. All I can do now is to plead with my parents to send me my trusty 35mm camera and some film. I’ve always trusted it and for good reason. I love that camera and it loves me. My digital camera can suck it for all I care. I have given up on it. If I were my digital camera, I would sleep with one eye open. Same goes for my computer.

I guess all I can do is explain to you how everything has been here. Christmas, good. I wish you could have seen it. I’m bitter. So, that’s that. I don’t even want to talk about it since this digital camera thing happened. Perhaps I’ll be more willing to talk about my New Year’s. That will give me some more time to cool off.

Tomorrow I am leaving for Trier and hanging out with Jenny for a day before we take off for Paris for New Year's. I am excited to go to France, as I have never been there before. (Actually, I have spent a rather long amount of time waiting around in the CDG airport in France, but that isn't france. So, it doesn't count. Who stops in an airport in France and says 'Yes, I have been to France!' Don't be that guy!)