So I have finally have internet in my room, although it is not because me internet got fixed, I just mooching off of someone's wireless. So ya its been a long time since I have updated so I hope people will still read this. I have so much to tell you all ( Read more... )

Bonjorno (I dont know how you spell it but you know what I mean)

I just wanted to update and let you all know Italy is amazing!!! We are at a hostel in Rome right now. I cannot wait to fill you all in with what I have been up to. Be prepared for some amazing pictures!! I should be back in Leiden on Thursday. Ciao till then!!

So I haven't updated in a while, I've been in the midst of moving to Leiden. The internet doesnt work in my room so I am using someone else's so I have to make this quick. I just wanted to let you know that I will be leaving for Italy tomorrow. I will be traveling to Venice, Bologna, Rome, and Milan. Perhaps I'll get the chance to write from the ( Read more... )

Here is the website for where I will be posting pictures: http://community.webshots.com/user/smuckers03. I'll post more tomorrow, right now it is time for bed though...goednacht!

So Friday we went to the Hague. It was pretty cool. We started off by doing a city tour. We saw Parliament and some palace. They we went to this museum called Mauritshuis. There we saw works by Rembrant and Vermeer, including his "Girl with a Pearl Earring," which was really cool. Next we took a tour of the Peace Palace, which is where the court of ( Read more... )

Thought this would give you a little background as to where I am staying ( Read more... )

So they kayaking was crazy! It took us a while to get a hang of it. We started off outside of down in a large canal. The then rowed into a little neighborhood, got out and looked around for a bit. The next leg of the trip was crazy!! The canals got really narrow (almost like alleys) and there was heavy vegetation on both sides...sometimes with ( Read more... )

SO...I got a bike the other day. It was kind of depressing acutally, apparently here I am to short for a normal bike (I'm 5'7"!!), so I had to get a little kid's bike. Well its not really that small, the handle bars are just really low. It just shows ya how giant the people here are!! Today we had to travel to two ethnically non-Dutch neighborhoods ( Read more... )

Had a bunch of lectures this week on the monarchy system, the drug policy here, and the dutch identity. Wednesday me and my school group went to this town called Amersfoort. It's about 20minutes from Utrecht. We had to ask people questions about their Dutch identity for our class assignment. It was pretty cool, very similar to Utrecht though. ( Read more... )

Well it's been quite an busy weekend. Saturday night I went to downtown with a bunch of the kids from the program. When we arrived there (at around 7) it was very quiet and no one was on the streets except for us, the group of loud Americans. We stopped in at a rock-n-roll bar and all talked for awhile. When it finally got dark, which wasn't until ( Read more... )