http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/KUGIRL/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from KUGIRL en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:11:16 +0000 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:11:16 +0000 Here are some links to marching videos when we performed for the Heart of America Band Festival. The pregame is incomplete but we only did half of it for this show. I am mostly back field sorry the films are a bit far away.httpwww.youtube.comwatchvRpnkxWOBr5whttpwww.youtube.comwatchvm4G12CUZb4and here is a picture link httpwww.kansasdrumline.comindex09photos.html10I have al http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Kansas/Lawrence/blog-446749.html Since coming to England I have wanted to see the location where the movie Pride and Prejudice was filmed and it is located in the Peak district which I have also wanted to see. It wasnrsquot until my last week in England that I had a chance to plan a trip up to Chatsworth house to see it. The reason it took so long for me to go is that it kind of takes a bit of work to get there. First I took http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Derbyshire/Chesterfield/blog-421240.html My friend Piper studied in France this spring while I was in England. During her spring break she and a couple of her friends were coming to England and they wanted to make a stop in Oxford so I met them there as I hadnrsquot yet been. It was really nice to see her after all this time. I took the train to Oxford from Leicester early in the morning so we would have all day to spend together. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Oxfordshire/Oxford/blog-421242.html After my organized spring break trip through school I jumped on a plane to Oslo from Berlin. I wanted to spend some time up north in cooler weather and also wanted to see the mountains and fjords of Norway. My motherrsquos family is from there and some still live near Oslo. When my flight landed it was pretty late and I had to take a speed train from the airport into the city and then walk to http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Norway/Ostlandet/Oslo/blog-421238.html We took a train from Prague to Berlin it took a few hours but was a good trip to just relax. We arrived at Haupbanhauf rail station and had to transfer to the inner city trains to go to our hotel. After we checked in our whole group took a quick walking tour where we saw the TV tower that is in Alexander Platz we were going to take a trip up to the top and I would recommend it because you hav http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/District-of-Berlin/Berlin/blog-462681.html My spring break was organized through school and consisted of 3 days in Prague Czech Republic and 4 days in Berlin Germany. I will create two separate entries because of the amount of pictures and for organizational reasons. We left at the end of the last week in March via Birmingham airport to Prague. We left pretty early and most of us were feeling that uncertainty that comes with having ju http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/blog-421236.html To all the wonderful patient and some impatient people who were waiting for me to finish my blogs here is the beginning of the end. Sorry for the extreme delay but not having internet over the summer kind of hindered my ONLINE blogging and the library internet just couldn't keep up. But now that I am settled at school and have the first week under my belt and have internet in my apartment http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/blog-412880.html For those that don't know I have been back in the States since April and have been working in Council Bluffs since May. Of course am just now getting my blog updated mostly because I don't have internet at home to post them and also because I am a hard core procrastinator. It also takes quite a bit of time to upload pictures and videos so bear with me as I try to finish these upFor the days http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Dublin/Dublin/blog-391796.html While in Leicester I had the opportunity to see many new sporting events. I am happy to say that I saw my first ever rugby and football aka soccer matches. The first event I went to was the Leicester Tigers Rugby match with Sharron. She was looking around for someone to go with her and I said was interested in maybe going to a game and she pounced at the opportunity and said ldquoOk wersqu http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/Leicester/blog-391568.html This entry might be kind of boring. I am mostly talking about some things I have done around the town I am living in and some things I have done with friends. But since I cannot travel out of the country every weekend and I want to see some of England here are some of the things that occupy my time here. Sorry there are no country hopping adventures or anything scandalous in this entry keep yo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/Leicester/blog-391788.html The first weekend of March Madison and I went to Scotland and the highlands. We left after school on Friday and took the 5 hour train ride up north. We got in to Edinburgh pretty late and had to wander around to find our hostel. When we finally found it no one was there to check us in even though we informed them about our late arrival. It was very difficult to locate someone to get us a roo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/blog-379977.html Hey everyone sorry I am ultimately failing on keeping this updated I am going to be home soon so hopefully then I will be able to finish my blogs in a timely manner I would like to keep them in sequential order so here continues the saga of my traveling so let me take you back way backhellipOne blustery weekend Madison who is basically my weekend traveling buddy now and I went up north http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-Manchester/Manchester/blog-376696.html I vicariously know a girl from Nodaway Valley who Treynor competes against in school events. She just so happens to be studying in Wales this semester so we thought we would try to meet up sometime. One unusually sunny weekend in February we met in Birmingham part way in between. I arrived by train and walked to the Birmingham bus station to meet Alyse and her friend Rachael. One of the mos http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/West-Midlands/Birmingham/blog-379965.html The second weekend of my life in Leicester I took a day trip to a nearby town called Nottingham. For those of you who are Robin Hood fans you will recognize it due to its proximity with Sherwood Forest where Robin and his merry men hid in a giant hollow tree. Madison a girl I spent a lot of time with at the London orientation came with me. We left on Saturday morning by train and the trip on http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Nottinghamshire/Nottingham/blog-375961.html Before school started about 40 international students met in London for a 3 day orientation. I wonrsquot post many pictures from that because I already have pictures up from when Amanda and I went to London. But I thought I would just kind of mention what we didhellip.sohellip.After surviving hauling my very ridiculously heavy bags through the tube and into the hotel our group set out for http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/blog-373375.html Ok Irsquom going to get this thing finished I swear This is the last installment of Amanda and my trip during our Christmas break. We ended our travels exploring the wonders of Italy. After leaving Venice we took the train to Perugia where I studied for 4 months during the fall. Amanda wanted to see where I had lived I wanted to introduce her to people I had met there and most importantly http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/blog-373075.html From Paris Amanda and I took the train first to Nice France for a day and then for a night stop over in Milan Italy and finally to Venice for 2 days. The weather in Nice was amazing We couldnrsquot believe that it was still considered winter While everyone else was walking around in heavy winter coats we were in short sleeves and enjoying the sun Our time was limited in Nice but we mad http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/blog-373362.html Amanda and I crossed the English Channel via the Chunnel train that goes under the water into France December 28 2008. We had planned to leave the day before but had difficulty getting tickets for the 27th no worries though. We stayed in the St. Pancras train station which we decided to never do again because we almost froze to death But once we made it to Paris we found our hotel and star http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/blog-366722.html Amanda and I spent a couple of days in London before returning to Billericay for Christmas.Our first day in London we walked to the Tate Modern art museum from our hostel and saw many interesting works of art. I really liked it but I think Amanda was just putting on a brave face for me I know she really doesnrsquot like that kind of stuffmdashwhat a wonderful sister huh After the Tate Mo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-366120.html I landed in England on December 17 2008 and was really excited to see Greg Dunbar when he came to the Gatwick airport to pick me up. I spent some time with the Dunbar's in Billericay before I went to the airport to meet Amanda. Mostly I spent my days catching up on some reading and sleep and hanging out with the Dunbars. I went with Greg to the neighboring town and walked the high street then http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/blog-364742.html