The Professor James Alex Baggett History Research Award, which recognizes the best original research papers presented in regularly scheduled history courses for the current academic year, was presented to Mary Thompson.

History Students Win Best Paper Prizes

Six Union University history students presented papers at the Tennessee Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference April 5 at the University of Tennessee-Martin.

Two students, Cameron Armstrong, a senior from Howell, Mich., and Mary Thompson, a senior from Millington, Tenn., won best paper prizes.

Thompson’s paper, “The Effect of Anti-German Propaganda During World War I on German-Americans in Tennessee,” won the prize in “Cultural History.

The Austrian folk dance was probably the highlight of my week. It was another experience provided by Frau Thiel that made Elissa and I feel like we had been put in a time machine instead of a study abroad program. I am quite certain now that we are living in Austria during the Great Depression instead of the 21st century. We have learned what life is like on a farm, even though we live within the city, next to a mall even.

My birthday was last Sunday but since so many people were traveling or writing papers I did not celebrate. I went to lunch with a few girls but there was no proper 21st b-day celebration. Actually Frau Thiel and Elissa both were gone and I was at the house by myself. If you must know what I did for the entire day I will tell you: I watched Grey’s Anatomy. I watched it for hours and hours. I watched season one, part of two, and all of season three I have not seen yet. I am not addicted to the show like some girls here, but it was available and I have nothing else to do. It was a kind of reintroduction to American culture after being tv deprived all semester. It probably was not the best decision because it is emotionally draining and left me a bit depressed.

To be honest the depressed state I hit after my birthday was not induced by Grey’s Anatomy alone. The fact that I am leaving has hit me and I am terribly sad about it. Soon I will leave the 30 people that have been my entire life for the last three months. No longer will I get to grumble with Elissa about Frau Thiel and her crazy meals and even crazier comments. I won’t get to explore new cities with the awesome girls from Ouachita Baptist and bask in the southern accents that I miss from home. My drinking buddy Andy will no longer be around to encourage or help me do the things I really can’t do on my own. Elias, Jeff, Colin, and Noah won’t be part of my life constantly making me think they are slightly deranged or even on drugs. What will happen when I don’t have Alisha and Sam around to shop with and eat lunch with? And can I really do without the Wittenberg girls? Those chicas are the craziest and the best for any occasion. Adam won’t be around anymore to be my kindred spirit always ready with a joke, a laugh, or my stolen thought. And how am I going to survive without Kenny to talk about the dumbest and the smartest things I have ever heard? I am going to miss these people like none other. I love everyone at home so much and I cannot wait to see you, but it is bittersweet to think that I will never see any of these friends again.

I am so very excited to come home and leave Frau Thiel’s European Finishing School for American Girls. I can’t wait to be in Memphis and to do the things and see the places I didn’t know I loved till I left. And I absolutely cannot wait to see all of you! I will be home late on the 5th then on the 6th I will be at church, assuming I can wake myself up. =) On the 7th I am going to come to Union, so if you read this… be ready because I want to see everyone! I will probably stay in Jackson for at least two days. Who is excited besides me?

Also, if anyone is a slacker like me and doesn’t have huge commitments this summer, would anyone like to go on a road trip? Currently my only plans are taking online classes from UofM so I am completely mobile and would really like to visit an amazing friend in Oregon. Since this is such a long journey it would be awesome to have one or two friends come. Anyone interested? (I forget whom all this email goes to… so if you are someone like, oh I don’t know, my mom… you aren’t invited. Haha jk mom!) Seriously though, I will be going at some point in the schedule so I am flexible if anyone would like to join me. I am super fun to travel with! [End pitch.]

Tuesday I will be taking my last excursion to the ice caves. It will be the first day they are open so I am lucky to get the day off from school. Hurray for national holidays!

I hope everyone is well and not breaking under the pressure of jobs and the end of the semester. Speaking of jobs… if anyone knows of one that I can have… let me know that too. I am so needy in this email. Geez. I will end it now before I think of something else to ask for.

Much love.

Budapest was a nice city, but not one of my favorites. Perhaps if I had gone there in the beginning I would have loved it but with all the traveling I have done this semester I am now selective about which cities I enjoy the most.

I am still working on getting my pictures online. It is easy to get on facebook but webshots has not been working for me so I will have to find another website. I will send a couple pics with this so you can enjoy! There is one from Venice and one from Ferrara and then a bunch from Paris over spring break. =)

Let me tell you about the second half of my spring break last week. Ferrara was an amazing little place to stop at during the break. I am so glad I got to see Riannon after so many years. Hurray high school friends! Also, the city gave me a good feel for the Italian lifestyle, complete with a nap during the middle of the day. If only Austrians and Americans participated in this smart cultural tradition life would be grand. In Ferrara I spent the day walking around the city and then went to a jazz club with Riannon and some of her American friends. The music was not the best but it was enjoyable and I love the building the club was in… it was one of the circular buildings that was part of the medieval wall that still surrounds Ferrara. The city has transformed the wall into a walking/biking path so that you can walk on top of the wall around the entire city.

After Ferrara I met up with Jenny and Rebekah (Salzburg College people) in Venice. I arrived first and got extremely lost on the mainland which led me to walk for about two hours before finding my hostel. I wouldn’t have been lost if it had not been raining because I would have easily seen the road I needed from the bus… but you can’t control the weather. Venice was also very fun. It isn’t a city with many sites so mostly you just walk around the skinny streets looking at the canals and houses. We went on a gondola ride with a family from Tunisia to split the cost and it was very fun. Our gondola driver (is that the right term?) didn’t sing to us but he did shout at every other gondola we passed and he also showed us the major sites like Casanova’s house and gave us a bit of history. We also visited the main square where all the pigeons gather. We decided it was the pigeon mecca and only the good pigeons make it there. I fed the pigeons some crackers and they flew around me and landed on my arms… the pictures of that are hilarious. Also a random pigeon landed on my head long after I had stopped trying to attract the pigeons. We couldn’t decide why that happened but it amused us all.

I stayed in Venice for one day because after that it is all the same. I had to go to Basel, Switzerland after that to go to an art museum for my History of Modern Art term paper. I was not excited to be in Switzerland for several reasons. The people are snobby, the weather was frightfully cold (it snowed!!), and that city of Basel is not beautiful at all. I was not excited to be there but the museum had a great student rate and it was a very good museum. I really enjoyed a lot of the art there and I did get my “research” done so it was a good stop.

Then… I went to Paris! One of the days I was there was freezing cold and rainy but the other two were amazing so overall it was beautiful. We saw all the major sites… Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, Moulin Rouge, etc. You can check those pictures out when I get them online. But for now I need to get offline and go do some school work. Just a little bit. Not too much. But enough that I won’t have as much work next week when Alison comes to visit me. =)

For my pictures I will be putting them on Webshots if you don’t look at them on facebook. I will slowly be adding them all to that site over the next week or two.

Have a great week everyone!

Milan: We started with two days in Milan, which to be honest was not my decision. I am not a fashionista and I know of nothing in Milan besides Da Vinci’s Last Supper and we did not even see that. By the end of the second day in Milan we were bored, but we did a lot of people watching which is amazingly fun there. Milan also has a beautiful church and a crazy cemetary that has really outlandish tombstones and looks like a little city in parts of it. I liked Milan.. good pizza and fun people to be there with, but I will not be going back.

Rome: Rome is one of my favorite cities even though we got lost when we first arrived. At 3 am we arrived and wandered until Adam asked a group of prostitutes where our hostel was and they lied to us so we walked around even more. We finally found the hostel which was nice except for a creepy guy that walked people in and out of there rooms. We spent two days there and it was just enough time to see all the major sites that we wanted to see. We started off with the Colosseum and then the Forum. We explored gardens and ruins the first day and walked through most of the old center of the city. Everything is really close together so not a lot of time is wasted walking to various sites. On the second day we did the most amazing thing ever. We saw the Pope!! We went to the Wed morning service and stood in a huge group of people until the pope came out at 10:30 and the service began. The best part was we stood next to the little road where the Pope drives through the crowd before the service. I was within five feet of Benedicto while little Polish children chanted Ben-i-dict-o and people squished closer to get pictures. After the Pope Experience we toured St. Peters and it was amazing to see the place I had studied about in Church History. Even if I am not a Catholic, the Church’s past is my past too, in a way. We spent the rest of the day wandering through the city and saw a castle and the bridges and other things.

Athens: We spent three days in athens. We walked through most of the city and explored the Acropolis and other ancient ruins. We did a small archeological dig (fake since none of us have training, but real in the sense that we were on the ancient Agorra) and I snatched a few pieces of building material before we realized we were in a roped off part and ran away. I went shopping in Greece too, it was the first place I bought things… I have a shirt that has my name in Greek… you want one too, I know. We also met a man named Nikolas who told us why Greeks all say God Bless America and that Greeks love Americans. He kept grabbing my cheeks and being silly but he gave us a lucky Greek penny and formed the basis for my US/Euro paper so I am happy about it. We ate Greek food in Athens… gyros for almost every meal that were cheap and delicious. The food there will be missed.

Aegina: a Greek island that we visited for a day and a night. It was beautiful, you definitely must look at the pictures when I put them online next week. On the island we rented mopeds and drove around the entire island a few times, exploring the beaches and ruins and mountaintops. Riding mopeds is only appropriate for places like this and coastal towns (which of course is all an island is), but where they are appropriate they are soo much fun! I think that I will upgrade to motorcycles when I get home. =) On the island we were the only people in our hostel and one of the few tourists on the island. It was low season so no one was there and the shops and restaurants did not open until afternoon if they opened at all. The atmosphere was very laidback, but perfect for relaxation after busy and crowded Rome.

I am now in Ferrara, Italy, with a my friend Riannon who I have not seen in years. After this I will head to Venice and then to Switzerland and Paris. My two weeks will end and the travelling Maria will head back to dreary Salzburg to learn German and finish her semester up. I am excited to return to Salzburg so I can digest this experience and to look at and edit my pictures (of course I looove doing that). In two weeks my friend Alison should come visit me and we will explore beautiful Salzburg further. Can’t wait for that either! I hope everyone had a great St. Patrick’s day and has a wonderful new week.

Much love.

I was very happy to be there for Cynthia and Brian’s big day. It was a wonderful ceremony and reception. A beautiful wedding, with enough funny parts to relieve all the tension and enough romantic parts to remind everyone what the celebration was about. I am so happy so many of Cynthia’s family were able to come from California. If you were there you might have noticed me holding on to Lauren and shaking. After ten minutes of standing in my heels, my legs were hurting and shaking. I was still paying attention to everything going on and thought it was lovely, but then I started to feel like I was going to faint. Blackness started to creep into my vision and I seriously almost passed out. I did not want to fall down, or even sit down, or do anything that would distract from Cynthia and Brian. I guess some people noticed I was shaking and holding on to Lauren, so I just wanted to say why. I feel very bad that I did that, even though I had no control over it. =( That was the only problem with the wedding, but thankfully it was only my problem and not theirs. I am sooo happy for those two!

The weekend before that I went to Munich for one day and stayed in Salzburg for the rest of the weekend. My time in Munich was spent at museums of Modern Art looking at German expressionist paintings and laughing at the guard who was listening to a Munich football game. The Munich art field trip was useful for my class but not very exciting to talk about. Munchen (Munich) is a nice city, and I especially love the airport. Everything there is orderly and labeled and you can easily find your way through the airport. If you get confused or have a question you can ask because everyone speaks German and English. I looove Munich’s airport. I tell you this so I can compare my experience there (flawless) with my experience in Atlanta. Atlanta’s airport on a scale from one to ten would be about a 3.5. While I was there someone stopped me as I was about to go through passport control and asked me where my luggage was, as if I had forgotten to pick it up from baggage claim. After I made it through passport control we were herded, literally herded, through to security. The airport employees were yelling at people telling them which direction to go. I found this extremely ridiculous, especially since we were in the international terminal and yelling English at people is not helpful. Sign with English are easily understood but screaming airport employees are not. The Italian couple behind me seemed just as confused by the yelling and also by the fact that you have to take your shoes of during security. As of today, I have only had to do this in US airports.

I don’t remember if I emailed everyone about Florence. I know I have tried several times but I don’t know if it ever worked… My time in Florence was one of my favorite experiences in Europe so far. I went on a weekend trip with the “Southern Girls” from Ouachita Baptist University. Everyone calls them the “Southern Girls” and I, the only other Southerner in the school, am not included in that and I am ok with that. We took an overnight train to Florence during Carnivale weekend. It was an interesting time to go to the city. Tons of people were there because there is no better place to be for Carnivale than in Italy. Lots of Asian tourists, some of whom took pictures of us and then with us when we asked whz they were taking pictures of us.

We went to a Carnivale celebration on Sunday that was part parade, part concert. The parade was an international parade and every country represented had a float decorated in the country’s colors. After each float went through the city streets they ended on a stage and did some type of performance. Most groups sang songs but the Filipino group did a hip-hop dance to a song from the Disney movie “High School Musical” (which is really popular here… at least in Italy). A Chinese dragon weaved through the crowd while people dressed as Austrian nobility marched through the square and a Swedish float advertised an ABBA musical. Kids in the crowd were all dressed up as princesses and cowboys and pirates, etc. They had bags of confetti they threw on the ground and at people in the crowd. I ended up in a tiny confetti war with a Disney princess while her mom watched and laughed.

We wanted to rent mopeds to ride around the city but settled for bicycles after the people at the shop said it would be safer. We spent hours riding around the city taking pictures and getting lost. It was the best way to explore the city. I hope that I will get the chance to rent a bike in another city. We went through the city and stopped to eat pizza and repeatedly to get gelato. Who doesn’t love gelato? Bikes also came in handy when Italian boys kept talking to us and following us… we could make a quick getaway. I can’t have too much attention; it will go to my head. =)

Well, I think I am all caught up on my adventures. I want to send a lot of pictures, but that never seems to work. If you don’t look at Facebook I will try this week to put all the pictures on a website for photos. I will send you the link in the next email.

After this week of midterm exams (sadness!) I am headed off for my two week spring break. My plan so far is to travel with two people, Adam and Alisha, for the first week. We are going to Brussels, Belgium; Milan, Italy; Rome, Italy; and Athens, Greece. After that I will be leaving them and traveling by myself for a few days. I will fly back to Milan and then travel by train to Switzerland. My plans are not made for this part of my trip but I might go to Zurich or Geneva. Then I will go to Basel, which is not exciting but I need to go to the art museum there for my art history class. I then will travel to Luxembourg because I have nowhere better to do and it is on my way to Paris, which is my final destination. I will spend 2-3 days in Paris with the Southern Girls and then head back home to Salzburg. Sounds nice, eh?

Well, everyone have a good week. Email me if you get the chance. I would love to read emails for you lovely people on rainy days like this one!

Ich liebe euch (I love yall).

Prague adventures began at 10 o’clock when 15 of us arrived by train. We knew the address of our hostel but in reality we had no idea where it was. We started off walking in the right direction thanks to directions from some police. We walked passed a man urinating in public, a few people doing weed, and some very nice statues. We did not know where we were going but continued to follow the very general directions we had been given. We ended up crossing a 7-lane street and then walking a mile down the interstate like road. Eventually we ended up in a dark and shady area feeling very lost. Thankfully at that point we met a Czech girl who spoke perfect English and she went into her dorm a few blocks away and looked up the address of our hostel on the Internet then took us to the hostel. She was a complete blessing.

The hostel we stayed in was very nice even if it was far away from the main part of the city. The first night we went to a bar that was close to the hostel called The Cross (or The Cross Club, something like that although I am not sure). It was a very interesting place. When I say interesting, I mean sketchy. I loved the building and the construction of all the furniture. Everything was made from random parts of different machinery and it all looked like it could start moving at any second. We actually met some Americans there who are studying in Prague, so that was interesting. We meet Americans everywhere we go really.

The next day was spent seeing the sights. We saw the clock (and went up the tower), we walked across Charles Bridge, and went to Prague Castle. We also took a boat ride through “Prague Venice.” That seemed like a bad idea at first, but a guy named Elvis from Guinea talked me into it. Elvis was a great guy and the boat ride was a great decision. It was such a small boat that I could reach out and touch the water. We went up and down the river a bit and I learned a little of Prague’s history. Most of the day however was spent walking around, eating Czech food and buying small things (I didn’t buy anything so don’t expect souvenirs).

Saturday night we went to a club near the Charles Bridge. Lots of dancing left everyone pretty tired so Sunday was a very relaxed day. Everyone was tired so we walked some more but at a more leisurely pace. A few people visited some museums and we all ate lunch at TGIFridays. Honestly I did not want to eat there and will refrain from American restaurants for the rest of my time here. I do not miss American food. (I do miss Mexican though. Send me salsa and hot sauce!)

And if anyone has ever seen the movie Eurotrip (I am not recommending it at all) and wants to know about my Eurotrip-like adventures, please ask. Its fun, but I don’t think everyone would like to know.

Hope you enjoy the pictures and are having a great time back in the States!! Be proud of me… I just had a conversation with my host mom in German! Granted the conversation was very short and I said less than she did… but still… five whole minutes of only German! I can totally ask how she is and say that I am sorry she is not feeling well. That’s all I need! I’m working on it. I definitely have to keep working on it because soon she is not going to speak English with us. Ah!

I included some pictures… if you want more, check out my facebook profile. If you want explanations of any pics, let me know. I will send pics from Florence soon… also an amazing city (especially when celebrating Carnivale!)!! I hope everyone has a great week!

It has been over one whole week since I have been here in Salzburg. Things have calmed down since I first arrived. I am used to the food (and I am getting more so I am not worried about the Frau Thiel diet any longer) and I have mostly figured out the bus system. This second achievement came at the price of getting lost, very lost several times. The first time I got lost I took the bus from the wrong side of the street and ended up on the exact opposite side of town from where I live. I got off where the bus stopped in some type of housing area that is near the train station. Since the bus wasn’t running again I walked for thirty minutes until I found a bus stop that had one of the buses that would take me back downtown. I had to ask a lady at the bus stop because I was not sure which way to go, and she showed me where to go and when the bus would come. I was late for dinner and on the wrong side of town waiting for a bus I wasn’t even sure would take me to the right place and I looked up to see a sign that said Memphis. The bus stop I had walked to had a “Memphis” (International) sign on its Tabak sign. I was utterly lost but the irony of the sign made it worth it. I did finally make it home for dinner a little bit late and I had figured out how to read the bus schedules, which is a very good thing.

Besides that… this week was uneventful in major things. I started classes and learned how to say in german who I am and where I am from. Not a major achievement but I am slowly learning how to say different things. Really though it is not completely necessary. Everyone hear speaks at least a little bit of English since it is necessary in the summer when the city is swarmed with tourists. I do need to learn the basics so that i will be able to survive after the halfway point when Frau Thiel stops speaking English to us. She speaks some German now but if we do not understand she will always explain it in English if we do not understand. People in the shops and cafes all speak a little english. I go to the Cafe Republic several days a week… its a neat place.

On Saturday I went with 6 other girls to go skiing. Well, they went skiing and I went snowboarding…I WENT SNOWBOARDING IN THE ALPS! Yes it was amazing. We spent the day with some guys from London, one of whom was actually Australian and a really bad skier. The mountain we went to still had snow at the top even though the bottom of the mountain was a bit icy and the snow was melting. So far it has been my favorite thing I have done. On Sunday I spent the day doing nothing. I slept a little bit and read a little bit for class but overall I did not do anything important. Sunday night I went to a Mozart concert performed by a rather nice orchestra. We had to dress up and I wasn’t sure that I was dressy enough but two of the guys in our group wore jeans so I felt fine. So, thanks to Kenny and Adam for being very American. Frau Thiel definitely would not have approved of their attire. She probably would not have let me and Elissa out of the house if we were not elejant (she can’t say elegant) enough for the concert. The concert was nice. Well, the Mozart portion was nice. The portion that was composed by the conductor was a little bit odd and not exactly the musical journey I wanted to go on.

Sundays in Salzburg are uneventful. Sunday before the concert I overslept for church and I never left my pajamas for the majority of the day. All the shops close for the day and most of them close early on Saturday also. Most people are Roman Catholic here so nothing but church happens on Sundays. People take walks and spend time with family during the day. There are some things that are open… like the restaurant on top of the mountain where we went with Frau Thiel our second day and Turkish kabob restaurants and some bars. Turkish restaurants and Irish pubs are very common in Salzburg. Although I was to sick to go, several of the kids at school went to an Irish pub to watch the Super Bowl at midnight. Anyway, Hurray for the Colts! I am so excited that they won, even though I didn’t watch the game… the first superbowl I have missed ever. Since I am still sick I decided sleep was worth more than seeing them win.

Hmm, what else can I tell you? Classes here at Salzburg College are very small. A couple of my classes have ten people and my biggest one is the class that everyone has to take… and that is only thirty people! I am excited about my US/ European relations class and my intercultural communication class. And of course I am excited about Austrian Cuisine because everything I have eaten in Austria so far is amazing. I will learn how to make a few things and treat you guys to dinner when I come home. Austrians emphasize making food that is fresh. They like to use fresh ingredients and make the food right before you eat it. It is definitely the right way to cook and I will be investigating the farmers markets when I come home. I had Austrian Cuisine for the first time last night and it was amazing… the best class I have! I made Weiner Scnitzel (I can’t spell anything) and other people made the potatoe salad and apple strudel, which was all delicious. I will have to cook everyone some things when I come home.

People at the college are all pretty nice. Even with thirty people everyone has formed their own little groups, mostly based on geographical location in the states. There is one group of girls that are from Wittenberg and they are all in the same sorority so it makes sense that they are together. The Southern girls (only three other people are from the south and they all go to Ouachita Baptist) hang out together with one other girl from Chicago. I like them and hang out with them mostly because we have similar values and lifestyles. My roommate Elissa is cool too. I forgot if I told you about her, but today is her birthday … she is 21! She goes to the University of Montana and is a Christian and a rather helpful roommate – we get lost together. Then there are the Illinois/St. Louis people that hang out together and then a northeastern group too. I actually hang with them a lot too. But I am a northeast girl at heart. Haha. The last group that has formed is based less on geographic location (although most are from New jersey/New York) and based more on the desire to party and drink almost every night. Needless to say, I don’t spend as much time with these people… although they are rather interesting. Its an unique bunch of people here… very enjoyable i would have to say. I am getting tired of being around the same people all the time though… one can only take so much American students when you live in a foreign country. But the bond of a common language does keep us together quite often.

Anyway, this weekend I am going to Prague!! I am very excited and will probably send an email all about it as soon as I get back on Monday. Yes!

I have a bunch of pictures from Europe but it takes a while to upload them so I have not yet. Maybe eventually I will upload them and send them to everyone. I am sure the pictures would make my terrible stories much much better. I hope everyone at home is doing well! I miss everyone and would love to hear from you!

Peace and Joy.

My first week in Europe was a tour through Germany visiting several amazing cities. I have pictures and postcards and such that I will share with everyone later. Charles Mitchell I thought about you in Heidelberg… ask me why later.

Yes, I am now in Austria, or Osterreich as they call it. I have moved in with my host family, had an orientation and am about to go buy a bus pass for the month. I am settling in for the long haul.

I am living with an older lady and another student. The student is Elissa and she is from the University of Montana. We kind of chose each other as roommates so it is a pretty good setup. She speaks a bit more German than I do so she has been helping me learn some. My host here in Austria is Frau Gertrude Thiel (Frau is a formal title like Ms. in case you thought it was her first name). She is a very nice lady who likes to talk a lot. She has made life here very interesting so far.

At Frau Thiel’s house we don’t shower and we are on a diet. Haha, this sounds harsh but let me explain. She only has so much hot water so she does not want us to use it all. So for showers we don’t take an actual shower. It is between a shower and spongebath. Closer to a spongebath. We are supposed to get in the shower and “wet your body”. Then we should turn the water off and soap up. Next we rinse off. Yes, this is the Frau Thiel way of showering and I am jealous of everyone else’s host family.

As for the Frau Thiel diet… at breakfast the first morning she told us about her last girl that stayed who was “thick”. She said she lost lots of kilos and that we too will be skinny (Elissa already is so I hope she doesn’t die). Apparently our big meal is lunch at the school and for breakfast we only get two pieces of toast and for dinner something like fish and a couple of potatoes. Everyone in Austria cleans their plates completely so we don’t have much problem with that. Frau Thiel told us she never fed the other girls sweets and she told her to walk three hours a week. We are therefore not expecting much from her, especially not sweets… or even fruit because we asked for some and she said we could get it at school. Yes, the Frau Thiel diet is sad.

I must go now because I have to buy some things before dinner. I just wanted to send a quick note to say I’m here and how crazy my host family situation is! She is great though. For our free day we hiked up the mountain in the city to the restaurant inside the art museum on top. It was a beautiful view and her friend from Vienna bought us hot chocolate. Overall it has not been that bad but definitely takes more getting used to. I hope everyone has had a great week! Much love!