Spring, and it's like a new world

During the few days my parents were here, the day (time of sunlighy) got longer by some 15 minutes. We are back to a situation where the time when I'm coming back from my late lectures still feels like it's evening, and is bright like that. In fact, however, it's 9 p.m. - basically, early night.
It's a bit confusing, since I rather like to use the sun as my guide to sleeping, but it is also very nice.

Also, you can watch the whole scenery getting greener and greener. Bushes have been unfurling their leaves or starting to bloom, trees are not far behind. (In fact, I started writing this about a week ago, and by today most smaller trees are pretty green, and the big ones starting to follow.)
Temperatures have recently been very nice, too - the night temperatures are still quite cold, but during the day, t-shirts have become appropriate.

It's only a little over a month before my return back to Austria. Before that, there are a few free days at the beginning of May, then I'm in Portugal for the Campus Europae PR meeting, then there's the LU Students' Research Conference, immediately followed by the Riga Marathon, then the last two weeks of May (when I'll need to take my tests for this semester's lectures), Stockholm Marathon, and that's pretty much it.

Still, some things about the lectures I've been taking by writing the necessary paper are not totally clear, neither do I know when I'll be able to take the test for Spanish (the lectures with the responsible teacher had recently not taken place, and the next times I'll miss again!). And of course, I still need to finally study more (or anything except what I learn in lectures) for Russian…

Yesterday, I sent off the materials for the Monbukagakusho scholarship application. Let's see if anything becomes of that.

Today, I updated my website a little: Introduced "aoi," and I hope that I will get a German translation of its basic elements finished soon.