So, I've been in Athens, Greece for a little over a day, and it is amazing! The hostel I am staying at, Athens Backpackers, is right next to the Acropolis. However, its more like mini apartments with people you don't know, but so far so good. Anyway, I arrived in Athens on Saturday evening. I took a train from Thessaloniki. It was the Intercity and took about 4-5 hours. I thought I had gotten a ticket for the express, but oh well. I wasn't overcharged so it's all good, and believe I checked when I realized I was on the 'slower' train. One thing I did learn on the train, when one Greek starts yelling, all the others have to join in. I kind of wish I could have understood what was being yelled down the ... read more

This past week was an interesting one, to say the least. There have been some ups and downs, but I think and hope everything will resolve itself, so fingers crossed. To start off with, I went to see Wicked on Monday night. It was AMAZING! For the few different plays/musicals that I have wanted to see, and am going to see, I splurge a little bit and by the playbill. That way, it's something easy and compact that will fit in my suitcase! The same goes with the postcards. While I am still sending out postcards every so often, I always buy and extra one or two to keep. Maybe I'll make a giant collage of the postcards and pictures from this experience! So anyway, back to Wicked. It seems there is always one character that ... read more

So here is my weekly update! I figured it would be easiest on all of us if I just posted weekly, mainly because the fun and interesting things mostly happen on the weekends since classes and most of the internship stuff doesn't change much. Quick class and internship update though: We didn't meet for the theatre class this week, so instead I went exploring...again, but more on that later! In the Traveling Along the Thames class, we had a group presentation on Tuesday about our walk from Albert Bridge to Chelsea Bridge. It was a rather short walk, and there wasn't much to see. We walked by the Royal Hospital (thank you for helping produce Prince Harry.....and William! hehe). For my internship, a lot of it was research based this week, which wasn't all the bad. ... read more

Ok. Here's the deal. You might look at this title and be like WOAH THERE JACKI! But seriously... I'm sitting here in starbucks with "free wi-fi" and I thought, 'hey, I should upload those Chinese New Years pictures I said I would...' So that's what this post is for. Chinese New Years pictures. ENJOY THE PICTURES OF UTTER MADNESSS!... read more

Today and yesterday were the first times that it has actually felt like I was in one of the greatest cities in the world, though I may be biased on that last part. Since we have arrived, we have been in orientation meeting after orientation meeting. The group that was in our place last semester had some issues with attending classes and internships. This lack of attendance could cause the company our program runs through to lose their license and essentially be shut down. So, to make up for this, they have instituted procedure after procedure that we must follow. Thank you Fall 2010 for making this difficult for us in Spring 2011. Though, thanks to them, our flats are pretty nice! (see picture 1 for the outside view of our flats) As the main problem ... read more