Europe: The Final Days

This past semester has been an unforgettable experience. I've learned so much about other cultures, people, and most importantly myself. Saturday I will be saying adios to Dublin and to Europe and enduring the 16 hour trip back to home sweet home. Hopefully my life journey will allow me to return again one day.

Thanksgiving

Spent thanksgiving in Barcelona with Azalea. It was absolutely splendid and i've decided i'm moving there . We had Sangria and Spanish food for our thanksgiving dinner and rented bikes and rode around the entire city. pretty spiffy!

On saturday we flew home and I continued on to my cousin Jeni's house. Sunday we had a more traditional thanksgiving dinner at her house =] it was scrumptious!

Tipperary

So this weekend Azalea and I went home with an Irish girl, Aoife, to her home town of Tipperary, Ireland. It was fun, we went hiking and saw a lot of flooded Ireland. The water was so high that it was pouring onto this bridge we had to cross!

Visited my cousin this weekend =]

Irish Dancing

Tonight we went Irish Dancing at a pub with seventy year olds. it was a pretty interesting experience to say the least

Botanical Gardens

today we walked around some irish botanical gardens today by campus . it was pretty relaxing, but ive seen better in America

Off to Ireland

This weekend we left Paris and arrived in Ireland! its amazing here. the grass is a radiating green and i think i might run away and live here like my cousin Jeni did . =]

Circus

As our last trip in paris we went to an amazing circus. it was one of the most originial shows i've ever seen in my life. There was a lot of painting going on and weird cast shadows and even some nudity (which we all know we would never find in America). Unfortunately I couldn't take any pictures inside, but I did have an (almost) front row seat =]

Sushi!

Paris has some of the best sushi I've ever had...ever. Just had to throw that one out there =]

Halloween in Paris!

So Paris doesn't exactly do halloween like NY does and it was a bit awkward walking down the street all dressed up and having everybody else staring but it turned out to be a good night! I was a zebra =]

LALA

Frankfurt was so neat. It's like a blend between old yodeler looking houses and modern/unique skyscrapers. Our hostel was like a hotel and even had a bar and night club looking thing in it. We wandered around the city and stopped in the numerous churches along the way. We even went to hookah there and saw little Aladdin hats on the men that owned it.

The French Way

I'm sorry I haven't updated in forever but the computer is in the shop (which is in Rome) and I have a loner (for now). Amsterdam was amazing. The cutest city i've ever seen. The people there weren't nice at all though. They were pretty rude and sarcastic - even the sales people. The food was excellent though and more like American food than we have found anywhere in Europe. Tonight I'm going to Frankfurt, Germany with some friends so hopefully soon you will get the Amsterdam pictures as well as the Germany ones!

For now here are some observations of the French:

9. the pop cans have extra thick/heavy bases

10. canned soup does not exist. but boxed soup (like boxed juice) does

11. there is cheese galore...but no cheddar

12. Everybody in the whole city gets their heat turned on on October 15th

13. Whenever you say a number from 70 - 99 you have to do a math problem
.... for example if you want to say 72 you say sixty-twelve. To say 84 you must say four-twenty -four as in four times twenty plus four.

14. the internet is chronically slow

Amsterdammm

this weekend! muyy excitioso! =]

The Louvre

the adventures of dorks im from Egypt
we go all the way to one of the most famous museums in the world and we get entertained by the air coming up from the ceiling
this statue was well endowed
mirror =] .... oh and a statue
ME! (ooh yeahh, and the Mona Lisa)
idk what this is, but it looked important
Venus de Milo x Susan
14 years of dance class and i can barely balance for a picture..smh
=]
my friends thought i looked like this little munchkin so naturally we had to take a picture
me and the first statue i sawwww

run-in with a local

So this gayyy man riding a bike said something to me and my girls while we were eating gelato. A few blocks later he was parked on the side walk so I went up to him and asked him what he said to us. The conversation took off from there. The highlight of the conversation was him telling us how to steal bikes lol. He loves Americans, NYC, Mariah Carey, and Men's exclusive body parts. Lovelyy right?

I see dead people...kinda

I went on a lovely little trip around with my friend Azalea and her cousin and his boyfriend. First we hit up the graveyard with really rich dead peopleJim Morrison's grave
tour guide! and Azalea
I'm a grave robber...what can I say?

this little contraption zips you up the hill (the one from the last post) in 1.3 seconds for a metro ticket. and you even avoid the hustlers trying to tie string around your wrist

[you've got a] Sacred Heart

we walked up a hill to this big huge church. then we walked back down...but not before a few photo ops![when you go to a Catholic school they take you on field trips to churches, just a warning to all you kids picking out colleges]
you can't really tell...but this is a confessional . muahhahaaa =]
its like BAM
the view is lovelyyy
oooh...how did this one get in here?

Salvador, you're a weirdo

Soooo we went to the Espace Dali museum here in Paris. Here are my pictorials :
oooh bigg lips =]

The French Way

7. Electronic Price TagsThese almost seem counterproductive.. make a profit so you can buy better price labels....

and i found them in a drug store at that
8. Plastic containers to hold your food on your plate . mad random

Top of the Eiffel

So we climbed to the top [ not really, only the second floor ] of the Eiffel tower yesterday. I think it was 660 steps... It woulda been cooler if it weren't cloudy, but none the less its spiffy =]

Ticket office in one of the feet of the tower
there is a bigg huge skinny long park next to the Eiffel Tower you can walk through to get there
Detective Susan ... i see you =]

J'adore

So yesterday we walked all around a cloudy Paris for about 5 hours. It was muchoo fun and I'm in love!

The French Way

1. Eat foods from around the world (contrary to the Italian way)

2. Watch people walk down the sidewalk as you sip espresso (or beer) and eat peanuts

3. Heels

4. Piles of Cigarettes (as noted by Stephany)

5. Build a bridge every block (there are 37 over the Seine alone)

6. High tech weird keys:

is this really supposed to keep me safe at night? i suppose it works considering i still have my computer right...

World Renowned Paris Scavenger Hunt

Yesterday we went on a scavenger hunt all around the city with Mike, Azalea, and Patrick trying to find some of Paris' most popular monuments...we started right next door at St. Peters waxed dead body...
this is us outside a church we thought might be important...turns out it wasn't but the priest tried to give us a free meal at the soup kitchen...we didn't have time for that and we ran away
this gold dome has someone important in it...can't remember if they are dead or alive though
oohh Pari!
Arc de Triomphe - on the go
Pyramid time!
reenactment of scenes from the Da Vinci Code...

Notre Dam and the hunchbacksss
high five for the st. johns university paris campus (it was on the scavenger hunt...)

the day was muchooo fun and we got to run [literally] all around the city. =]