August 2010
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auteurstheories asked: I must say I love your posts about your time abroad. I was also abroad from Aug 20009 - Dec 2009. Our paths probably crossed at some point; I went to Paris, Florence, and Copenhagen as well. But I was studying in London. Do you have more pictures to share?
June 2010
1 post
A Weekend in Pisa, Lucca, Florence & Bologna,...
Day 0: Thursday, October 29, 2009 At this point in the semester, autumn had begun to turn the trees of the Kasteel grounds vibrant shades of gold, orange, and red. While many of my friends opted to travel to bigger cities like London or Berlin this weekend (after all, it was Halloween), Erin and I decided to have a quiet weekend (we dubbed it our “honeymoon weekend”) exploring the middle...
January 2010
2 posts
A Weekend in Interlaken, Switzerland
Day 0: Thursday, October 22, 2009 This weekend I was traveling with Brett, Erin, Rachel, Eric, Hallie, and Kristen, like the weekend before. After classes ended on Thursday afternoon, we caught the bus to Venlo and then a train to Dusseldorf Hauptbahnhof, where we caught our international train: a CityNightLine overnight to Bern, Switzerland. Tonight was fairly uneventful, save to say that...
A Weekend in Barcelona, Spain
Day 1: Friday, October 16, 2009 For a variety of reasons—well, actually, two reasons: a required World Drama performance in Utrecht and a cheaper flight on RyanAir—my weekend in Barcelona was shorter than most; instead of leaving late Thursday, we (me, Brett, Erin, Rachel, Iman and Eric) had a leisurely mid-day flight on Friday. The flight was uneventful excluding some beautiful...
December 2009
1 post
A Weekend in Paris, France
Day 0: Thursday, October 8th, 2009 After Brett was freed from his Thursday afternoon class, the pair of us made our way to Venlo train station with ease (we were pretty good at it by that point). We were a little confused as to which train was going to Rotterdam, but we trusted in the Netherlands train system (smart? maybe not) and boarded the one we thought was correct. It was, and we...
November 2009
1 post
A Weekend in Copenhagen, Denmark
Day 0: Thursday, Oct. 1st, 2009 After getting out of class on Thursday afternoon, the group I was traveling with (my roommates Brett and Taylor, along with Claire, Colleen and Sophie) walked to the bus stop at Cafe Vink to catch our bus to Venlo station. We barely made it, as buses going both directions on route 83 pulled up while we were still half a block away—we started sprinting...
October 2009
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A Weekend in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Day 1 - Friday, Sept. 25th 2009
Our first travel weekend - the faculty and staff of Kasteel Well are taking us to the capital city of the Netherlands, Amsterdam! We started our Friday morning early; our lovely and dedicated RA’s making the rounds to beat loudly on everyone’s doors at 6:15 am, lest we forget the buses leave promptly at 8 am (and yes, Doine, we know that you’ll leave without...
September 2009
12 posts
“Opening - The New World” from Songs...
“A new world calls across the ocean, a new world calls across the sky. A new world whispers in the shadows, ‘Time to fly, time to fly…’” The use of approved electronic devices is now permitted. And as the sun sets, US Airways Flight 798 with nonstop service to Amsterdam defies the law of gravity and I am compelled to write for you. The shoreline of the place I call home has far receded...
Oh. My. God.
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I took your purse and felt a connection - m4w
Date: 2009-05-14, 3:06AM EDT
Tuesday night around 11:30. On 53rd btw 1st and 2nd. You came out of the subway and I followed you. You looked over your shoulder, saw me and started walking faster. I ran up, grabbed your arm, took your purse and ran away. I heard you yelling for help but let’s be honest, this is New York. The only way people...
The journey begins...
You know that feeling you get when you’re departing from something that you recently rediscovered you knew long ago, and arriving somewhere your heart tells you is parallel to home, while something big is looming on the horizon that you’re partly scared to discover and partly thrilled it will change your life? Yeah, that’s where I am. It’s about as exhilerating as a...
August 2009
16 posts
I do love my wifey Miriam!
Miriam: except buying new clothes
Me: oooh sexyyyy
Miriam: i know right. all for you hubby, all your favorites!
Me: yessss slinky lingerieee. and by slinky, i mean the kids toy
Miriam: BAHAH ok i totally thought yu wrote stinky lingerie and wanted to vommy for a minute
Me: well i mean, where YOU put them is your business
Miriam: ....ew
“(706): I’m playing a drinking game with nyc prep. This will not end well...”
– www.textsfromlastnight.com
““Death steals everything but our stories.” —Anon.
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Oh Dear...
Some bizarre Facebook application tells me that the following is true:
I have 980 friends, 860 more than average. 43% are male, 57% are female. 329 are single, 346 are dating or married. If I contracted a deadly variant of flu, I would likely infect 18 people, 2 of whom would die. When I share something on Facebook, it is typically viewed by 49 people. If I died today, an estimated 790 people...
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I just realized I’m probably going to spend somewhere in the vicinity of $35-50 dollars on postcards within the next 4 months. How unfortunate is that? Postcards should be free to tourists. Although that clearly defeats the purpose. Ah well, at least it’s for a good cause :)
“Fail boat.”
Layout.
So that took all of about 52 seconds. I changed my layout. Such is life.
I'm getting nostalgic...
…for home. Although I feel like I have many homes. And once I live in Europe I will feel like that’s another home of mine. But really, I’ve somehow managed to only live in some of the most beautiful places on the planet. So it’s quite hard to keep uprooting myself from one to go to another. I know that seems petty, but it’s been weighing on me quite a bit...
Getting back in the swing...
I’ve decided to return to my tumblr a few weeks early to prep myself for the weekly updates to come when I’m in Europe. I’m also still deciding whether to solely use my tumblr as a means of communication with everyone back home (that’s you, dear reader) or to use both my tumblr and Shutterfly sites. I feel like that may be a bit cumbersome since most of y’all will...
May 2009
6 posts
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who knew that theatres could actually be beautiful AND modern at the same time? it’s a beautiful thing. henry miller’s theatre is the first new broadway house to be built in 20 years, and the first environmentally friendly theatre on broadway. take a look.
“i am enough.”
– victoria clark
Inaugural post, everybody!
So, this is my first post. Why? Because I can’t get the thing that says “Make your first post!” go away. I’m really not going to start blogging until mid-September next year when I begin to travel around Europe. I’m just making this blog now because everyone has already left for the summer and I’m bored. Check back in a few months!