Srsly, Terre Haute...

Well I know this doesn't have anything to do with Germany, but I am going to write about it anyway, and thus marking my third (and probably last) post of the day!

So today I had a quick meeting with Dr. Jaubowski and Dr. Moore over some tasty cake and coffee. So yeah we talked about the exchange program and bla bla bla, alles egal. Oh, and the whole time they called me Christine, haha. But everyone makes that mistake so I didn't say anything. I think it's kinda funny how now I can automatically respond to that name. (Probably because half of the people at Goodyear also called me Christine...) But anyway, the one thing that I wish to recount is what I learned from Dr. J about Terre Haute. So apparently the Hautians didn't re-elect the mayor they had before because they thought he was spending too much money on unimportant things. One the unimportant things he was spending money on was the sewer system.

Most inhabitable cities have two sewer channels, one for rain drainage and one for all the poo. Turns out, Terre Haute just puts everything into one channel and sends it off to the sewage treatment place. It's not a problem though, unless it actually rains. When it rains, the sewage place can't handle the increased volume of crap, so where does it send all the overflow? Into the Wabash River, naturally. So the federal government mandated that Terre Haute had better effing fix this, cuz that's nasty and like kinda really bad for the environment. So the mayor they had before was like, yeah, ok, I guess we shouldn't be dumping a bunch of raw sewage into the river. We will fix that. However the people didn't think that was money well spent, and told him to go away.

Also, I learned a lot of the people that have a septic tank don't actually have a leech bed. They say, why need a leech bed if you've got the river for your disposal??? Gross.

So, C'MON TERRE HAUTE!!! Seriously, I mean I know I make fun of the Hautians all the time for being unintelligent, but this is the first time I think that I've come to know solid proof of it... Terre Haute, the land of Wal-Mart and