Hey everyone!

I arrived in London on Monday. My first goal upon arriving at the hotel was to find some food, so I set out to do a short expedition. Tired, starving and quite honestly a bit intimidated, I ended up in a small diner. I scarfed down some spaghetti, picked up some groceries at the local grocery market, and went back to my hotel to relax ( Read more... )

Hi everyone--

So I realize that my being committed to this journal has been less that successful. This is mostly due to the fact that I've been in individual contact with mostly everyone who would even read this journal and I felt that it was redundant to post about my day when I had already told them about it....Anyway, I'm updating now and plan ( Read more... )

Hi everyone!! Sorry for the total complete lack of updating. I'm trying to upload a bunch of stuff to post on to this livejournal but technology is not cooperating with me right now. The family I'm staying with is pretty cool. I've made a few videos and taken a bunch of pictures, which I will post when I return on Sunday.

So far I've toured around ( Read more... )

I made it! It's about 2am right now. I try to be on my computer when the family is asleep so not to be rude. They are all pretty relaxed in everything they do-- a pretty peaceful family. The food here is AMAZING! My host mom is a pretty good cook as well. Last night we had pork, noodles, and mushroom sauce. Tonight we had vegetable lasagna with raw ( Read more... )

So my adventure begins tomorrow. It's pretty overwhelming but I think when I finally arrive in Austria things will settle into place. I'm excited to meet my host family and, I'm especially excited to hang out with the little girls (My host parents have two young girls, 6 and 12 years old). I hope I will be able to access the internet at their house ( Read more... )

Only 5 more days left until I go to Austria! I don't feel *too* nervous about it ( Read more... )

Summer quarter's gonna end this week.

Then before I know it,

I'm gonna have to be able to ask, "Where's the bathroom?" in German.