Hello again! This is a long one guys, so bear with me. :) Well, well left off with the climax of my trip thus far: playing with baby lions. How could things possibly get better? I had no idea until we went to Kruger National Park. The entire trip thing had just been on an upward track, each experience more exciting and wild than the next, literally. We had started with animals in just enclosures, move up to animals in a reserve and now we would be seeing animals completely in the wild. While Kruger is mostly surrounded by a fence there is essentially no human interference with the animals there. They are not fed, they are not vaccinated or cared for; obviously they are familiar with humans since there are roads around the park for ... read more

Hi all! Sorry it took so long to get out a blog but I sent my computer home for my trip to South Africa and it has been a little busy getting readjusted. But, before I get to that though we have to finish up my trip with my parents around Europe. After leaving the sauna that was Rome, we headed to Paris where everything is wonderful including the weather. It was a comfortable upper sixties to mid-seventies. We didn’t spend much time in Paris though. After we arrived we only enough time to check into our hotel get some amazingly delicious albeit over-priced lunch and head to the train station to leave for Bayeux, France. This was the part of our trip that I was most looking forward to. While Mom and I were working ... read more

Good day all! First, I added a video above that is for fun! Its sort of the opposite situation my parents and I are in now that we don't have Chiara to help us out with Italian, but its a funny way to show how difficult it can be to communicate between cultures! :) Well, Mom and Dad and I have successfully conquered Firenze (Florence) and are headed to Roma! Mom booked us a pretty nice little Bed & Breakfast near Florence city center, which worked out pretty great because everything was within about a twenty minute walk from the apartment. We got in fairly early and the owner of our B&B suggested Mario’s Trattoria for lunch. She warned that it could get crazy if you wait long to get there so we headed out, but ... read more

Hello everybody! Well, since I last spoke to you from the terminal of the Seville airport my parents and I have traveled southern Spain and have now made our way to Milan, Italy to visit Chiara and her family! First I have to say how nice it was to finally see my parents after ten months and really now that they are here it sort of feels like nothing has changed, like it’s only been a few days since we last saw each other, not months. So far it’s been an interesting trip traveling around with them. Just to remind you, I haven’t really traveled with anybody all year except for the little trips I did with my friend Ryan, so sometimes it’s a little odd having others around. Mom and Iris retrieved my Dad who ... read more

Hay-low y’all! Well, to celebrate the last weekend before exams begin naturally Carly and I spent the weekend inside with our heads in our books studying. Actually we did the exact opposite. Carly and I made plans to go to Tarifa on Friday, but since the forecast predicted a good beach day we altered our plans and slept in until about 11 o’clock, laid around the house and the around one headed to the beach with our friend Alex. It really was a good day to lay at the beach and in all honestly I haven’t actually been to the beach to just lay around since about October. I go to the beach all the time but usually I’m running or walking along it, very rarely do I ever just go and sit. I don’t really ... read more