CatCollins

Waiting for Mary Margaret to get to Madrid was the longest month of my life. I couldn’t even really believe that she was in Madrid until she arrived at 7 in the morning and was jumping on me and screaming. Despite her long flight she wasn’t that tired so we went back to my apartment to drop her bags off and then went to meet Aizza and Carolin at Ch & Ch, a churro’s place in the center, for Carolin’s last day. Afterwards we walked back to my apartment so Mary Margaret could see some of the city. By the time we got back we were both hot and tired. The jet lag had finally hit MM and the fact that I hadn’t slept at all the night before was starting to effect me. After our ... read more

Vienna is one of the most beautiful cities I have ever been to! I loved everything that I saw...the city center, the country side, the food, and most importantly the people I met. You may be wondering why we went to Vienna since we don't speak German at all. Well I had heard that Vienna was a beautiful place and we have a friend there, Florian, who was an international student at our school, that we wanted to visit. Billy Joel's Vienna may or may not have influenced our decision as well. We left Madrid at around 3:30 pm on Wednesday (the 8th) and got to Zurich for our layover at about 5:30 pm. We had a three hour layover in Zurich so we just wandered around the airport for a while and then sat by ... read more

Sorry It took me so long to upload the pictures. I had an exam on Tuesday, my last day of classes on Wednesday and graduation from the international program at my school on Thursday. But anyway here is Paris! *For those of you who love Anastasia (like I do) will get the title name. Paris. The city of love. Well It is definitely a beautiful city with lots of love everywhere. I had a fun time in Paris seeing everything and just hanging out with the people I was with but I think Paris is a little overrated. It is such a tourist trap and everything is so expensive but I guess the city with the Eiffel Tower and the Mona Lisa can be proud. So we got there Wednesday night (the 18th). We met up ... read more

So I was looking at my last entry and I realized it has almost been a month since I have written. Sorry about that. For the first two weeks of April I was just basically going to school and working on projects/studying. We went out a few times but nothing too exciting. And then once spring break started I figured I might as well wait until the end and do a really big entry instead of two separate entries. So I suggest that you give yourself sufficient time to read this since it covers basically the whole month of April. Well as I said I had three presentations, a paper and a midterm during the first two weeks in April. So basically I was working on all of that with breaks in between for things like ... read more

Well I didn't exactly bring my camera everywhere but I do have a lot more pictures than last time. In Spain, the week before Lent starts, there is a celebration called Carnaval. Basically everyone dresses up in crazy, colorful costumes and there are parades and parties for a week straight. For one of the nights of Carnaval we went to Shoko, a club where my friend Susie is a promoter. The theme was superheroes but most people just wore whatever costumes they had. Lidia, Susie's sister, and I just wore masks, Susie was a clown. Shoko has makeup artists that give free makeovers so Lidia and I decided to do it. It turned out ok except for the girl who did Lidia's makeup got a little eye shadow happy. We had fun going back and forth ... read more