What has happened in my life? Lots. Too much. The biggest thing was that I went to Cyprus for five days. I joined Ari, Christina, Holly, and Kubra’s trip to Cyprus which happened to be leaving on the same plane last Friday morning as Dan, Zac, Kendra, Justin, Paul, and Ginny’s trip. So the first day we all hung out in southern Cyprus. We had to pass through the UN buffer zone in the capital city of Nicosia, which was pretty cool and bizarre. Then we looked at old Nicosia and saw a medieval hall, lots of ethnic diversity (as Dan said, “you know you’re a former part of the British empire when…”), an old Venetian mansion with a small museum in it, some Orthodox churches, and a crazy Byazntine icon museum full of more Byazntine-era
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