Rounding out the first year of college is more of "thank god" feeling than a "OMG I DID IT" feeling. The year started off in the UK and finished off in GLenside, PA. There were amazing times and horrible times. Countless papers and a handfull of final exams. I have learned a lot. it's amazing looking back and realizing how much my knowledge has increased. it's amazing what $40,000will give you! haha I've taken a wide array of classes towards my International Studies major. Mostly history classes. I now have 37 credits from British history and british art and architecture, theories [View Full Entry]

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--Sunday, March 9, 2008-- The day was a long one. It started in LEhighton, PA saying goodbye to the love of my life. From there I traveled to Glenside, PA to pack my things. I arrived at my dorm at 2:00am to pack my bags for a weeklong trip for spring break. It was a service trip to Tijuana, Mexico. We worked with Esperanza International ( www.esperanzainternational.org ) It is a program that helps build homes for low-income families. I didn't know waht I was getting myself into, but I didn't really want to know, and I was excited! 4:30am we [View Full Entry]

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My Dziadus decided to take all the family to New Smyrna for the week. I joined the fam late wednesday night becuase I didn't want to miss too much school (I know...studious right? :-P) I couldn't sleep that night, for a multitude of reasons, but let's go with excitement? I heard movement in the kitchen around 7:30 in the morning and I' had been laying in bed bored for a while so i figured if someone else was awake....I would be too! I felt a litle too excite that morning, everyone else was used to being in florida, I had only [View Full Entry]

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Towards the end of my semester in London I began to look forward to returning to Glenside, PA to continue school. My home school is Arcadia University. This spring was going to give m the 'real' college experience. London was amazing, don't get me wrong, you could probably tell if you read any of my previous blogs. The culture, the city, running through hyde park, traveling to far away places. These are things i will hold close to me for the rest of my years. These, however, did not contribute to the real college experience. When i think of the college [View Full Entry]

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Who says you can't go home? It's a funny feeling, although I think the funny feeling comes from there being no feeling at all. It's weird. I spent four months away from home. Not just at University a few hours, a University across the ocean, thousands of miles away. For some reason, being back in the United States, in PA, in a room bymyself, with the most comfortable bed ever...isn't as exciting as I was expecting. I was excited about coming home. The charm had worn off London and about two weeks ago I realized i was ready to come home. [View Full Entry]

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OK, now I'm officially in the Christmas spirit! There was no real snow but they used bubbles. Not like regular bubbles..like soap suds haha It really looked like snow it was crazy plus it cleaned the town. We ate Thai which isn't Christmassy but we didn't care because it was delicious! Me, Andy, and Andrea roamed around. We went to the carnival that was on the castle gounds. It was so cool. We went on the crazy ferris wheel. It was bookin! The three of us went on it at one time. I don't know how we fit...seriously. My butt never [View Full Entry]

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For 5 pounds I got o go Ice Skating at the Somerset House. It was so pretty with the CHristmas decorations and music. The only complaint was the pouring rain! It was something I'm not used to at CHristmas time. It stopped pouring when we were on the ice though...how nice. I hadn't been ice skating since I was a little girl but I didn't do too bad, considering. I didn't fall! Me, Andy, and Rose got in the Christmas Spirit and were feeling the need to bake Christmas cookies. We ran to Tesco to get the gods and made cut [View Full Entry]

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For starters, I still wasn't sure we were supposed to get off the train for the layover. It fel weird for some reason. It was freezing again, but whatelse is new? Pulling into the station, the town looked absolutely adorable. It's what I pictured a little Austrian town to look like. The station was completely dead except for a few weary stralers like ourselves. We headed outside and all I wanted was a nice cup of tea. We walked all up around through this quiet little town tha reminded me of home. It was all decorated for christmas and streets were [View Full Entry]

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I jolted awake and relized we were stopped. I woke up CJ and we got of or our hour of roam time in Viena. All I wanted was breakfast in Vienna. I had been talking about it for days now. It was so cold out and everything was closed. I really hate shis whole Sunday closed stuff. It's mesing with my holiday. I like how London is run...free on sunday, closed on Monday. It's agood setup. We ate breakfast at a cute place in the station because all the other restaurants out on the streets were closed. I got orange juice [View Full Entry]

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We were excited about spending time during the day in Brno. Last time we wer ther it was night time. We spent like 45 minutes trying to exchange money. Nobody would exchange my Serbian bills. Apparently, nobody goes to Serbia so it's not worth having the money exchange. So now I have 5,000 in Serbian bills. We went o the same area we were on Thursday night. Al the shops would be open this time. We roamed in and out of stores and really almost chilled out after the last few days. CJ lost her licence, ISIC card, and credit card [View Full Entry]

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