April 2012
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December 2011
11 posts
I’m leaving in 5 hours. We’re all sitting here packing and cleaning and don’t feel a thing. Its like we’re packing for a trip to Dublin or something.
¡Viva la España!: London's Calling; big/little... →
theight:
This past weekend I spent freezing my butt off, riding the tube, and laughing a whole lot. It was a great weekend spent with my big. She showed me all around london from the christmas markets, food markets, big ben, the london eye, shopping, and pub crawls. Friday I arrived around 4 and she showed…
Hello.
I miss all of you but I never want to leave this place. EVER. Reality has kicked in. I feel like this was all a dream. I have met the most interesting people here and done the weirdest things you can imagine. I will come back with so many stories and experiences, and some that you won’t understand because you weren’t here to experience them with me. But that’s okay, I will do...
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do...”
– Mark Twain
Little in London
Little came to visit this past weekend! We did all of the touristy things, shopped in Oxford Circus, and went on a Pub Crawl. It was cool to show her around my neighborhood and tell her everything about London! We found a really cool building by the Eye that had bowling, a bar, an arcade, and a McDonald’s.
This is the only picture we have of both of us for some reason…
London Adventures
CAPA gave us free tickets to go see a pantomime, which is an interactive, funny play known to happen near the holidays. We saw Cinderella at Hackney Empire Theatre. It was pretty funny.
Last night, CAPA rented out the famous Three Kings Pub for our farewell dinner. It’s basically a sports bar. They gave us food in a buffet style, and if you were there it would have looked like we...
November 2011
22 posts
Stamford Bridge
Okay so maybe Let Me Play isn’t that bad. I got into work today and was asked to meet a group of Australian kids at Stamford Bridge, which is Chelsea Football Club’s stadium. I went with them on a private tour! We saw the home and away locker rooms, ran through the tunnel that the teams use to enter the field, and saw the press room. The actual stadium was so cool, but so weird...
Dad's Visit
My Dad came to visit me for 5 days! It was so fun! We saw basically all of the sights in London, plus more. I took him to the changing of the guards at Buckingham, rode the London Eye, went to the ice bar, went on a ghost bus tour, and saw the British Museum. We spent most nights at Hyde Park Winter Wonderland, which is basically a huge Christmas Market and carnival in one. They have a craft...
Austin Comes to London :)
So last weekend Austin came to visit! He flew into Luton and arrived at my door around 1am. We went straight to bed and then woke up early to explore the city. If I do say so myself, I am a pretty good tour guide. We saw Buckingham, Trafalgar Square, Harrod’s (The Christmas World is amazing there!), ate at Rainforest Cafe, saw Platform 9 and 3/4, and checked out Hyde Park.
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London Work Days
So I’ve decided that one of the best things about London is that it’s acceptable to grab lunch and a pint at a pub before work. People here are very casual about drinking and eating. You will see businessmen in suits during lunch time at your local pub, and it’s not abnormal to grab a drink during your lunch hour. Today me and Sarah Ryan decided that after class we would go to...
Top of the Mornin' :)
Dublin was absolutely amazing! We did so much too! We stayed with Lauren’s friend Will, and his 3 roommates (who were all pretty cool). We did the Jameson and Guinness factories, a horse and buggy ride, a ghost bus tour, saw Trinity College, and went to Temple Bar at night. The factories were pretty cool, but I like the Guinness factory better because it was much more interactive, and had a...
Glee!
So last week I helped Let Me Play out with the Glee performance that they were putting on. Basically a bunch of kids (around 100) got together and put on a performance just like the show. It was unbelievable. I ended up working around 45 hours that week, but it’s okay because I wont have to work when my Dad comes to visit in a week! I ironed for 4 hours and helped set up the event during the...
Barcelona
The last leg of our journey was a couple days in Barcelona. I was so happy to see my Little! and she did a good job being our tour guide :). I loved this city. It was a mixture between a beach and city. The street that we stayed on was Las Ramblas. This area of the city reminds me of Times Square. They had cute area with vendors (where I bought a cactus), and a market with the best fruit...
Lisbon, Portugal
Honestly, I had no idea what to expect from Portugal, but it happened to be AWESOME. When we arrived at the airport we took the aerobus to our hostel. Once at the hostel, the woman at the front desk showed us around (they had a really cool lounge). They had really comfy chairs in the lounge and everything was black, white, and teal.
They also had an in house chef who served dinner for 9...
October 2011
28 posts
Madrid: The Rest
So the next day we woke up and decided to check out Parque Warner. It’s basically like a smaller Universal Studios. It is split into different areas, like superheros and cartoon ville. They had some pretty cool roller coasters. Dad you would have loved the log flume there, I will explain it when we skype :).
The park itself was far from the city, and it look like we were going...
Madrid: Day One
So we arrived at our hostel in Madrid around 2am so we decided to get some rest and then meet up with Austin the next day. Our hostel was pretty cool, complete with wifi and lockers, as well as a beer vending machine (each beer was one euro). We were exploring the city in the morning and found a Dunkin’! This was so exciting because I was telling Courtney the first thing I want when I get...
Fall Break: Intro
I honestly don’t even know where to begin with this trip. It was one of the best weeks that I have had in my life. I am so happy that Austin and my Little decided to come abroad at the same time! It was great to see familiar faces, as well as having someone to show you the cool spots of the city :)
So my schedule was Madrid —> Lisbon —> Barcelona. There’s a lot to...
Adios madrid
This is the craziest place I have ever been. Awesome time here! Can’t wait to tell very one stories. We’re at dunks now and our flight leaves at 5 for Lisbon. We may go check out the bull fight museum. We were one week late for the bill fighting season, but that’s okay, it would have been very gory anyways.
Viva la Madrid
Madrid is one of the most culturally different places I have ever been. I love it here, an am using my conversational Spanish from Hopkins pretty well. I am so fortunate to have Austin and my little studying in Spain an was so excited to see them both last night! So the first night we got here, we ended up passing out pretty early. We got up and met Austin the next day so he could show us around...
Almost Halloween!!
I LOVE this time of year. Starting with Halloween, I can’t get enough of the holiday festivities! So in honor of Halloween, I decided I was going to carve a pumpkin. Well, it took me three weeks to find one, but I finally did! And I just finished carving it! I’m also attempting to make roasted pumpkin seeds. Half with butter and salt and the other half with butter and cinnamon. I...
