Mysterious visitors and Germany

I found a mysterious flower petal on my sink last week. I've never had flowers in this apartment. I have no roommates. How did it get there? I am not making this up. A few months ago, I found a gum-ball in my mailbox. I did not eat it. Who put it there? I seriously heard creaking, like someone was walking around my room last night. When I got up to investigate, the noise stopped. I like to think I have an admirer. But I am also afraid when I go to sleep. It's an uncomfortable life that I lead.

On another note, I'm studying for the last final I have before I can skip on back to the dirty south. I'm nervous though, as this teacher never likes my writing. On the last paper I got back, he'd scribbled "no" on pretty much every paragraph on every page. Ouch. I thought I had Aced it, as I had actually enjoyed the topic.

This time around, though, I feel a little more enlightened on Germany's government. I thought that the Berlin Wall was built to keep Communism from spreading throughout the world as part of the Domino Theory, but my dad told me I was wrong. My dad told me the Russians built to keep the people in so that they couldn't escape the Communist regime (for lack of a better word). I now see them in a different light. My teacher told me, though, that East Berlin was Socialist and not Communist, but after my research, I've still found that they are Communist.

Anyway, my dad told me that during the Vietnam War, he was stationed in Germany where he caught spies and stuff. I always sort-of thought he was lying to seem cool. Why would he be in Germany if the war was in Asia? Apparently we had troops in Germany as part of NATO (I think b/c of that). So I bet he really does have cool stories to share.