Blogs from New Hampshire, United States, North America - page 17

Today is the Day! After months of planning, booking and anticipating, the day is finally here. Today I leave the United States and tomorrow my future arrives. For the next 9-12 months I will be living amongst peoples of a different culture, and immerse myself in the local flavor. Tonight, my plane departs Logan Airport at 7pm. My expected arrival time is 6 am in Irish time, or 1am eastern. I am so excited I don't know what to do with myself! I have been packed up for days. All of my reservations and bookings have been confirmed. I have put together all of the details of this trip and it has finally arrived. I will miss many things in the US, but I hope that I will be too busy to think about it that ... read more

so this isn't a new place i traveled to. nothing about this is new. this entry is about the end of a chapter of my life. for 11 years i have gone to Camp Calumet Lutheran for boys and girls in Freedom, NH. i've been a camper, a trainee, and a counselor. camp is a place that has changed my life and has meant more to me than any country in the world ever could. i left on saturday and won't be returning next summer. i don't know how i can put my eleven years of experience into words, but i'm going to try here. camp is love. camp is a place where i found myself. where i learned it was okay to act like a child (in fact, it's encouraged). camp is a place of ... read more

Welcome to my travel blog! ...I know that my departure is still a few weeks away, but I wanted to get an early start. Exactly 3 weeks from today I will finally be departing from the states and the following day I will find my destination: Galway, Ireland. What's in Ireland ...Once I arrive in Galway, I will be attending the University of Ireland, Galway. I will be enrolled at the University for 2 semesters, where I will study Literature, Culture, History, and maybe a bit of Psychology. What I really want is to understand another perspective. I want to live amongst a different cultural group and see the world through their eyes and experiences. Ireland is a country with a very diverse history. There have been many different groups of people that have settled and ... read more

Today has been great! When Reveille went off all my girls had their teeth brushed and were dressed for the day...on top of their game!! If only every morning was like this! We had breakfast, then our morning announcements, and then SIGS, I was the counselor in Nature and this week the topic is Mission Impossible, so we made air guns and decoder maps. The girls then had tennis and I was able to catch up on letter writing which I am behind on! The wind really picked up and it got really cold out, so instead of free swim we stayed in the cabin and played games and danced! After lunch we had water-ski and the sun peeped out for a while, so we were able to catch some rays! After all the girls went ... read more

We woke up this morning late and left for Montpelier. Montpelier was on the way to Burlington which was our destination for the day. We walked around the capital which was nice and then we went to the Ben and Jerry’s factory in Waterbury---where Ben and Jerry’s was first opened. We then drove to Burlington which was really cute and went to a couple of the stores before lunch. We went to a pizza parlor for lunch and then off to the beach. It was an awesome relaxing day! We then had a late dinner and stopped by a park to make some phone calls before we headed back to camp. We stopped by Bradford on the way home to celebrate Joe, a fellow staff member’s birthday and we were back at camp by midnight.... read more