After to graduating from Landmark College in May of 2007 I transfered to Menlo College in California to pursue the idea of studying Psychology and a relationship. Things I learned from that semester... 1) Lies are more present than I had imagined, whether they are articulated by some of the people you trust the most or even someone you only encounter once in your lifetime. [View Full Entry]

---

---

Hey! Right now I am writing from the train! We just left Edinburgh Scotland and we are on our way down to Dover to see the white cliffs. We will only be staying one night in Dover until we leave for our last stop in London! Right now I am getting free wireless, but it is only a trial so it may not last very long, so I will try and keep this short. So far we have been to Bath, Cardiff Wales, Oxford, Whitby and Edinburgh. So far my two favorite places have been Whitby and the Highlands in Scotland. [View Full Entry]

---

---

Deep Scottish Love Wednesday, July 12th - Sunday, July 16th I have to admit I wasn’t in love with Edinburgh at first sight. My study abroad group and I got to Edinburgh Station around mid-afternoon and quickly walked through town to locate the place all the students would be staying, on Cowgate Road at Budget Backpackers, for the next four nights. The two other girls and I took our baggage up to our brightly painted room, made the beds and discussed who would share the double mattress, on the bottom bunk. Without argument we finalized the sleeping arrangements and I grabbed [View Full Entry]

---

---

The Heart of All that is Good and Simple Friday, July 9th - Wednesday, July 12th Coming from Vermont, the rolling hills along the side of the train tracks were not a new site to me, but the differences between the two is that in Vermont the hills are covered with trees and in Britain the hills are covered with crops. Lucy was explaining out next homework assignment to a small group of us when she stopped mid-sentence to announce “there’s Whitby”. I swiftly turned around in my seat to face a tall bridge standing right outside the window. The bridge [View Full Entry]

---

---

A Woman's Dream in Oxford -- Shopping and Dessert Friday, July 7th - Sunday, July 9th Oxford is the best place for a student, who has issues with money, to go shopping. In almost any store or café that you walk into you can receive a student discount, up to ten percent, provided you show your student identification card at the time of purchase. That was enough of an invitation for me to spend my day off going shopping, even though I am notorious for being one of the few females on the planet who loathes shopping. Despite my extreme hatred [View Full Entry]

---

---

Well I am here in Cardiff, Wales and today has been the coolest day since we arrived here at the UK. Today has been in the 80's, while the rest of the week it has been in the high 90's. I have to admit I miss Ireland's weather!! We started off our trip in Bath and now we are in Wales. On Friday we leave for Oxford and will be there for two days before moving on to our next location again. We are doing a lot of writing (hense the Travel Writing course) and I think most of us are [View Full Entry]

---

---

Experiencing Cardiff from Colum Road Tuesday, July 4th - Friday, July 7th Beads of sweat continue to roll down the sides of my round face, I wipe them away with my hand and then onto my jeans. One of the reasons why I came to the United Kingdom for the summer was to escape the heat that is all too common for Chicago, but my group and I have found ourselves in the middle of biggest heat wave that Wales has had in the past three years. After asking for directions twice and walking for a good half hour we finally [View Full Entry]

---

---

Bathing from Behind the Curtin Saturday, July 1st -- Tuesday, July 4th As a new traveler from the large modernized city of Chicago, Bath has provided a beautiful step back into history. Just as Sager claimed in his piece about Bath, the antique looking architecture is everywhere through out the town. There isn’t a street you can go down without seeing at least one building that dates back a good hundred years. The Royal Crescent, alone, is a 605 foot long Georgian monument with 114 pillars that dates back to 1767 and provides a wonderful view of Bath. Unfortunately to own [View Full Entry]

---

---

Final for Humanities 241: An Irish Experience tomorrow!! [View Full Entry]

---

---

Hailey has been diagnosed with a type of Leukemia called Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (A.L.L). She is going to be starting chemotherapy treatment right away. The good news is that it is curable, but we ask you to continue to keep her and her family in your prayers as they go through the struggles of chemotherapy and any other difficulties that they may come across along the way. Pray that the doctors are able to help heal her and that Hailey’s body is able to respond to the treatment. Hailey I love you! <3 [View Full Entry]

---

---