We're Baaack!

Hi everybody! We're sorry about the delay, but when little green men in a spaceship offer you something to eat besides dorm food, you can't really say no can you? And notice, we're saying, "we". This blog is so awesome, it takes two people to write it!

Ok, so we weren't abducted by aliens, and we have a lot of territory to cover since we haven't blogged in about ten days. Sorry! It's kind of like that story about the prodigal son... execpt there's two of us...and only one of us is a son.

So, we're in the midst of our third work of school, and things have gotten progressively busier for the Braunsey Twins. Eric's Japanese class has gotten slightly easier now that he understands what's going on, and his Swedish class has gotten slightly harder now that they are getting into more difficult grammar than "hello" and "goodbye". His history class has stayed the same, as they only meet two days a week.

Chelsea's dance class is really fun. The main teachers for Dance 101 are new, grad students, and a lot of fun! Even though it's a basic dance class, it's just as much fun as an advanced class with a lot less thinking to do. Since it's at 8:30 in the morning, Chelsea has fallen into a more productive sleeping pattern. And since she's essentially not a morning person, dance really helps to wake her up in the mornings! Plus, most of the students in the class are athletes who want to get a VLPA credit, so it makes her look extra graceful in comparison. English 302 was interesting for one day, but then it drifted back into dull territory, so there is nothing to add there...except that Chelsea has to turn in her first paper next Wednesday. History 261 is a pretty interesting class. It's technically called "Crusades History from a Middle Eastern Perspective". The professor for that class is a German guy, with a heavy accent and very interesting sense of humor. It makes his lectures more interesting, although he often has to search for a word if he doesn't know it in English. On the first day, he introduced himself and when the class was expecting to hear, "Hello, I'm professor Sh-war-tz" instead, he said, "I'm professor Sch-var-tz...with no 't'".

As you all know, there's more to college life than just class and school work. Chelsea has been known to hang out with her friend Freddie, her dashing twin brother, and her roomates, but she has spent every evening of this last week training for her new job, or working. For those of you who don't know, Chelsea tutors student athletes before, between, around, and after classes. Last Wednesday, she had to go to Meet Your Tutor Night in which she had to sit around a group of long tables with about 80 other tutors for 2 1/2 hours, greeting the student athletes as they came in. She ended up talking to the guy next to her, who is a grad student at the UW. He was...interesting...to say the least, and although he asked her if she wanted to get a beer with him, she doesn't forsee anything romantic happening between the two of them in the future...perhaps because she does not enjoy beer. She started officially tutoring on Monday, with a group of student athletes who are taking Drama 101. Now, the people in charge of the tutoring program made it sound as if the students needed help taking notes, getting organized, and budgeting their time. While that may be the case with some student athletes, many of the students that Chelsea works with are freshman, and freshman students are required to have tutors. So, tutoring some of them is a bit difficult because they already have a system down. Oh well! At least she gets paid!

Two weeks ago, Chelsea went back to Port Angeles for the weekend. Eric, now flying solo enjoyed some alone time. He watched an entire Chinese detective show on DVD, To Catch the Uncatchable. All that screen time can get a bit boring, so Eric exlpored a bit and ended up making a new friend. While taking a walk, a Danish girl named Julia asked him where a good place to eat was. Eric wasn't busy, so the two ended up hanging out for a few hours. They had a few odd things in common. Eric is a linguistics major, who switched from Asian studies, whereas Julia is a Chinese Studies major who swtiched from linguistics. They exchanged numbers and got together for dinner on Saturday and plan to get together sometime in the future. Also, while staying with Aunt Chuckie and Uncle Al this summer, Eric got to go to the family pig roast where he met distant relative Molly. Although Eric is still not sure how they're related, that didn't stop them from hanging out on Monday. Molly, her friend (whose name escapes Eric. It may have began with a D. Let's call him Deuteronomy) and Eric went out to a Taiwanese bakery. Later on Eric will interview Molly and translate what she says into Japanese for a homework assignment. Eric is looking forward to it. Also the twins went to Aunt Chuckie and Uncle Al's house for dinner on Sunday. It was delicious. The twins played Eragon and Robin Hood games with cousin Nathan, ate tacos and ice cream, and even got to go to a few interesting stores around town. You haven't lived until you've been to a store that sells bacon flavored mints. Eric didn't buy them, but he did get a lolipop shaped like Lenin's head.

So there you have it. Our lives so far. And if you'll excuse us, I think Dutroy is calling us back to the mother ship. Live long and prosper.