hello all. i know it's been awhile and although i'd like to write a detailed explanation of of everything i've done, and i know everyone would like to sit here and read it, that cannot be done. instead you will get a lovely list of the important things that have occurred (or at least what I can remember ( Read more... )

I would just like to re-iterate that in a few hours a will be in Italy. That is all.

Paris happened so long ago I'm not sure I can even journal about it anymore, and Erin's journal pretty much covers it. Here's some random thoughts ( Read more... )

ok, so. This past weekend I went traveling off to another foreign city, Amsterdam. That means I've been in three countries in one week...insane. I left Amsterdam with a mixture of feelings created from a mixture of experiences. From the moment we got there, the locals were so friendly and helpful. One guy got us on a tram, confirmed our hostel ( Read more... )

This past weekend me and others took a lovely 11 hour bus ride to jolly ole scotland. although we left at 6 am we didn't arrive until it was too dark to do much exploring. after the ridiculous amount of time on the bus we checked into our tiny hostel room and got some food where some scary Italian men turned nice and we enjoyed a much needed meal ( Read more... )

I've been here for three and a half weeks. Weird. It's been forever, but not. I still don't understand time. This has been a pretty slow week and I'm kinda happy to be going on a new adventure to a new place this weekend. I am not excited about an 8 hour bus ride. I found out that I was locked in the British Museum for ten extra minutes ( Read more... )

here are things that happened since the last time I updated, in no specific order ( Read more... )

since i haven't been keeping up here's a wonderful list of happenings in the past few days ( Read more... )

Classes start tomorrow so of course I have severe insomnia so I'm pouring my heart out to my dear livejournal. The last few days have been quite blurry due to a million random activities and sickness. Yesterday I pretty much slept all day because I couldn't swallow, my ears were plugged, and I had a fever. I saved all my energy to go to the ( Read more... )

okay this one is gonna be a doozy cuz it's the story from beginning to present. after much crying and no sleep i said goodbye to my mom and dad at ohare and off i went to embark on my studying abroad journey. everyone from my program had green AIFS luggage tags so we were easy to spot. i didn't get to sit next to anyone from my program but i sat ( Read more... )