EURO-ADVENTURE COUNTDOWN: 24 DAYS In Spring 2009, my sophomore year of college, I was lucky enough to spend a semester living in a castle in the Netherlands. Yes thats right, a castle in the Netherlands. On a daily basis I would wake up to the sounds of black swans screaming (or at least that's what it sounded like to me), look out the window of the tower that I lived in, and see the landscape that had become my home... two moats, tulips, children riding their bikes to school and my classmates sitting in the courtyard chain smoking. The only things that I had to worry about were my classes and planing my weekends, which were spent traveling around Europe. In my time abroad I went to 10 different countries, jumped out of a plane, almost
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