12 is the magic number (?)

hopefully!

or let me put it like this...twelve OR five is the magic number. so, I chose option 3 (just read the previous entry) which means that I am going to stick around in austria for a while. I cancelled my flight to portland and I have to admit it still hurts a bit. but I am trying to get on track (or stay on track) with my us grad school plans. more updates on that within the next weeks, big promise. and if it´s not working out I am back at wu, fast as a lightbolt. oh, and I got an internship at a small radiostation in salzburg starting on the 11th of september - I need that for my bachelor´s degree. I am already hosting a show with some friends, but since this has nothing to do with politics it´s not counting.

alrighty, that´s it for now. have a nice week!

us updates

from now on I am going to post the progress on my "returning to the us plans" on my blog. I am going to start with the options I have so far:

- returning to salem on august 21st. advantages: great place and responsible for the best year of my life. disadvantages: not enough time to plan everything out the way I want it to.

- getting my bachelor´s degree in salzburg and applying for grad school in the states for august 2007. advantages: enough time for planning, would be easier (financially speaking). disadvantages: I have to stay in austria for 12 long months. what if I don´t get my bachelor´s during that time (well, that should be no problem) or if I am not being accepted for grad school?

- postpone my return to salem until january 2007. advantages: I can see where my salzburg bachelor´s/US grad school plans take me. if there are too many things going wrong I can always return to the states, getting my bachelor´s there and see what happens. disadvantages: can´t think of any, right now. so this is what I am going to do, as it looks like.