Pope Lewcock the First

I've decided Professor Lewcock is an exceedingly awesome dude.

Lewcock is our art professor, and up until this point I haven't really found him as awesome as everyone was saying I would. He obviously, as Ulrich puts it, "has forgotten more than I've ever learned," and he's extremely knowledgeable about a dozen different topics, not just his field of study. The problem I've always had with him is that he's pretty much a walking encyclopedia, and when he teaches he's telling us so bloody much that it just gets overwhelming. So that's why I've just been so-so on him thus far.

I had breakfast with him today though, just by coincidence. Most of our group is in Salzburg right now, and so when I went down to get breakfast I was the only one from our group there. Well Lewcock came by after a few minutes and asked if he could eat with me, and of course I said yes. First, let me just give you some background on the man. He was born in Australia, is a fellow at Cambridge, has had multiple articles published, owns homes in three different countries, has visited over 100 different countries, and is over 80 years old and still going strong. So, clearly, he is very decorated. But we sat and chatted over breakfast for a while, during which it came to light that I'm a Liberal Arts major and that I've written a few books. We discussed literature for a while and then discussed his teaching style and he asked me what I thought of the material. I might have embellished a teeny bit how much I enjoy art, haha. But I told him my plan was to do some work and walk around the city a bit, and he told me his plan was to grade our papers all day (ouch).

All in all it was a great conversation. He's a really awesome guy. In fact, he reminds me of my own grandparents a bit.

I spent the day doing various things. I did a concert report which is due tomorrow, which, naturally Sydney hasn't started yet and won't be able to until close to 22:00. I also made a trailer for the next Pennsylvania Trip movie I make, and it came out pretty awesome. Insanely awesome, actually. Then I did some Bible reading and then some writing. I'm hoping to go up and finish the chapter after writing this.

Oh, and its raining here, so I didn't go to the beer garden (its outdoors), and so I made it through the day spending only 3,58 Euros. I'm just gonna finish up the groceries I bought on Wednesday for food. The 50 cents came from a phone call I made to my Grandfather at a pay phone, and the rest of it came from snacks I bought for the bus ride tomorrow.

I actually bumped into Lewcock again out on the street going to the grocery store, haha.

And that's it for now. This will probably be my last post from Germany, so I'll write to you all again from Brussels.