http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/lostintheworld/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from lostintheworld en-us Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:45:26 BST Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:45:26 BST Where did the summer go We all knew it would fly by even with the extra month vacation that being a college student affords you but I never thought it would really end so fast. Someone I know told me that I can no longer ask where the seasons or semesters go...but where the year goes....time goes by way to fast for anything else and you find yourself saying it less often. He's completely ri http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Pennsylvania/Carbon-County/Jim-Thorpe/blog-315086.html 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 40000will give y http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Pennsylvania/Glenside/blog-273668.html Sunday March 9 2008The 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 200am 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 http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Baja-California/Tijuana/blog-256931.html 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 730 in the morning and I' had been laying in bed bored for a while so i figured if so http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/blog-250147.html 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. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Pennsylvania/Glenside/blog-241166.html 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 excit http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Pennsylvania/Carbon-County/Jim-Thorpe/blog-228579.html 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. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Kent/Rochester/blog-224902.html 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 fallMe Andy and Ros http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-224899.html 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 5000 in Serbian bills.We went o the same area we were on Thursday night. Al the shops would be open this tim http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/East/Brno/blog-223190.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna-State/Vienna/blog-223188.html 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 wante http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Carinthia/Villach/blog-223018.html After the Italian ladies companion showed us the horse statue and the way to the city she ddeparrts and we are all smiles. We wasted what we didn't really realize was super precious time going to the info center then the ticket booth with the semialmost mean ladies and back to the info center twice. Going to the info center the third and last time was when we realized how precious time really http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Croatia/Central-Croatia/Zagreb/blog-223011.html 800amSo here we were in Serbia. Abruptly awoken by banging on the door to our cabin to inform us to get of the train we were the last stop. Jolted from sleep and thwo outside I was very groggy very freezing and I realized I had to pee like nobody's buiness After we said goodbye to our friend I felt like we were running around like chickens with our heads cut off. I needed the toilet. We http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Serbia/West/Belgrade/blog-222976.html We waited for our freezing train which came ten minutes late. We had no idea what do do. All I know is when we got on and found an empty cabin. It was warm and I was more than happy with it. It was so warm but it started feeling colder the longer we were there. I layered up in everything warm I had. We passed out...well CJ did. I of course couldn't sleep but it felt good to just lay down. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Hungary/Budapest/blog-222955.html I finished the papers I needed to which means I have nothing to stress about on this awesome weekend holiday with CJ. That makes me happy. When I oke up today I laid in bed for half an hour. It was so comfortable and warm and I knew I wasn't going to be comfortable in a bed again...most likely until we got back home Sunday night. You will find this ironic later Walking to the tube station I http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/East/Brno/blog-222944.html We didnt have english class Fridaz morning so we slept in. I woke up and did mz art paper hung around the housejust relaxed. Around noon it hit me that I should probablz pack for Germanz. Me sara and mark were actuallly going to this Bremen place we still werent sure actually existed. I was being terribly unproductive. I didnt pack shower or finish my art paper. and I was leaving at http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/District-of-Bremen/Bremen/blog-222113.html I didn't want to wake up again late today since it was our last day in Greece. We found out from Dean that because of the whole Greek Orthodox 'Christian Thing' and he did use air quotes Saturday Night everything shuts down early to prepare for the dya of rest kind of thing. He then asked if me and Rose were sistersthe finny thing is we were just talking about how we wondered if people thoug http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/Attica/Athens/blog-219950.html I wake up to light coming in the window. I check my watch to see that it is 11.00 There's no way we slept in that late. We went to bed by 9 average between the two of us and we are two hours ahead Why did I switch my watch off 24 hour time. I'm to lazy to reach back and look out the window but i can see through the crack in the curtains that its 11 at night. I wake up again at two for cars http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/Attica/Piraeus/blog-219131.html Thursday and Friday blends together. I had to wake up really early of really late depending on how you look at it. I set my alarm for 130. There was no need in setting an alarm because sara was still awake and shaina was just ocming home. I got about three hours of sleep' a nap really but enough to gie me the go for the next day. We walked briskly to Paddington Station to catch the bus to http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/Attica/Athens/blog-218994.html I don't remember where we were. But I do know that it was a cheap motel. And There was a swimming pool and a sliding board in the back and I had a yellow bag of peanut MnM's. We went there for my brother's boy scout trip. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/blog-217166.html