Blogs from Europe - page 11922

Since my last blog entry James and I have been pretty much everywhere in London, down to the southeastern coast of England, back to London, and now on the move to France. We were supposed to leave last Thursday, but decided to stay on the weekend and this week to get some more business stuff done. James has been working a lot, and I’ve been trying to help as best as I could for the last week, and not drive him totally crazy! So what have we been up to….well the highlights have been; James getting great tickets for us to see the play Wicked (the untold story of The Wizard of Oz). 8th row! It was really good! By the end of the week, both James and I had had enough of the run ... read more

Our first ferry trip in Greece!! We were so excited to take the Greek version of Bart to the port, but of course they were on strike - just our luck so we had to take a taxi... and traffic was ridiculous because of the strike so it took forever to get there. Lambrose our driver was super nice, he helped us map out our island hopping excursions. At the port we had our first Gyro's!! and free beer!!! It was so friggin hot! 31 degrees which is over 90!!! Hot hot hot. The ferry was super nice - we got suckered into upgrading to the "airplane seats" that reclined in the ac section of the boat where they showed movies in english!! We figured out later that no one checks your tickets and you ... read more

Zdrah'stvooite! No, I am not insulting you. That's how we'd say HELLO in Russian. If you guessed that I have been saying "hello" instead, you were right! I can manange "da" (yes) and "nyet" (no), and "spasee'ba" (thanks). The 10 hr flight from Atlanta to Moscow was okay. I read my "travel bible" (lonely planet) to get a refresher on Russian history, from Ivan the Terrible, to Peter the Great, to Lenin, Stalin, ... and all the way to president Putin. Than... the American by me started to talk (yeap! I was not the one talking, believe me). He happened to be working on building a facility to destroy Russian chemical weapons!!! US brings personnel and money for the plant, and contributes with other projects like hospital, orphanage, etc. According to him, the new cold war ... read more

well what and night the day begain early up at the bus station on our way to rauma it was a pleasent drive arrive just in time to get lace and bobbin ellen mum wanted lace when we arrived where ellen had book us in for the night i was shocked to say the least it was a workers camp it was a saturday and we were in for a fun night the men cos i think we where the only two women in this camp started drinking around 1200 and didnt stop they where singing and carry on then it turned into fighting cos there where all notionalities in this place russians polish finish and so on all working for a ship yard come 0100 in the morning one man tryed to get into our ... read more

Well today was…. Well lets see we got stopped on the bus by ticket officials looking for our tickets. The stop where we get on doesn’t have a ticket machine so we all decided to live dangerously and not get one in the morning for the way back. Somehow I escaped from being asked to show my ticket- I think it’s because I am my mother’s daughter and had my head in my bag looking for a ticket stub. The official never came back to me to check me out. Unfortunately 11 of us had to pay a 50 euro ticket on the spot. Not so nice at all. Practicum is going well, my Italian is improving from talking to kids all day in it. Their new favorite game is “Speak quickly in Italian so Ms. ... read more