Cute just got cuter.

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Hard to believe, I know. But this morning I experienced a level of cuteness far beyond what I had ever imagined.

Last night after dinner (which was like midnight!) I asked Timo if he would call me in the morning when he gets up. Robert and Emily are very early birdies and so Timo is pretty much always up between 6 and 7 because of them. I was afraid I'd oversleep and miss class or even my exam since I'd been out so late the night before. Timo thought it was funny but said he'd call. Then I jokingly told him that Emily should call me because she'd just be like "Keeee-nahh!!!" and then I would definitely wake up.

So, bright and early this morning, I'm all snuggled in my warm bed and in the middle of some dream, and all of a sudden my cell phone rings. My first thought: Argh! Who in the world would call me in the middle of night? Second thought: Oh no, I told Timo to call me. Yeah right Timo, I'm going back to bed! But then I answered the phone, and alas, a sweet little voice... "Keena aufstehen!" ("Keena get up!") It was the cutest thing EVER. I laughed so hard and was so cheered-up I couldn't have gone back to sleep even if I wanted to. :)

Edit (7. Feb.): Okay so yesterday I too tired and out of it to give a full update, so I just posted the cute story because I couldn't wait to post it. :) Here's the rest of the news:

The choir concert was Monday night and went very well. Not 100% perfect, but a lot of things that were not working out at dress rehearsal on Sunday worked out at the concert, which was awesome! Our director is so cute too. He can be so funny and animated, and whenever we got through a hard part during the concert he looked up at us and gave us this very intense look of approval. Unfortunately hard to describe, but it was very nice. His conducting also becomes even more animated on stage than in rehearsal, which was also rather entertaining.

Lots of my friends came, which was really cool. During the orchestra-only work I played "Where's Waldo" and found Molly, Tobi, Clemens and Tina. The rest were hard to find. I was thankful though that they weren't like a lot of other choir people's friends and families, who stood up and waved rather hideously when we first came out on stage. Embarassing!

After the concert I went to dinner with Timo, Tobi, Clemens, Tina, Gerard, and Johanna. And guess what we ate? Mexican-ish food! This restaurant was sort of a vague Mexican/Brazilian/South American place. Most importantly: I ate fajitas. And they weren't bad. Salsa was actually decent too. Wasn't fresh like American Mexican restaurants, but it didn't taste like ketchup!

Only bad thing about it was that we left the restaurant at midnight, and I had my Turkish final the next morning. The exam was at 10 but I had another class before that at 8:30, which is why I was afraid I'd oversleep and thus asked Timo to call me when he woke up. And then sweet little Emily called. Soooooooooo precious!

The exam went well. Turkish teacher was nice and gave each of us the opportunity to ask for help on up to 5 vocabulary words. For each question we didn't use, however, we earned an extra .5 point. I used four of mine, so I didn't really gain many extra points, but other than the questions I used I felt like I knew everything. I was pretty well-prepared. Hopefully I did well--Turkish is a lot like math, you can understand the concepts really well and still make careless errors that can mess you up a good bit, but I took my time with it and had time to check a lot of answers too. We'll see!

After the exam I pretty much just crashed at home. I did a little laundry because all my jeans were dirty (jeans are important!) and attempted to do a little reading, but it didn't really work. Oh well. Then I met up with Tobi to plan out our "Mitarbeiter Fiesta" for the 40 Days of Purpose (series by Rick Warren, now translated into German), then we ate at the Chinese restaurant underneath the church. Yum. Then I had music practice with Manu, which is always fun although my fingers are a little tender now from not playing guitar for two weeks. Then I went home and slept a lot.

And that's my update! In other news, Mom and Dad have finally planned their trip to visit me in March, and Mom and I are officially going to Istanbul and staying with Elif!!! Woot!!! I'm totally excited. Like, totally really excited. :)

That's it. Love to all!