throw the dog a bone!
i feel like i should make up for lost time with a few updates about my travels and whatnot. at the moment i'm in nice, france at a great hostel called Villa Saint-Exupery.
i spent the first half of my break from school in barcelona. all of my classmates either left to go home or to travel, so it was a little sad to see everyone go after having spent a semester together. i'm glad i'm staying for the year because i feel like i've only just gotten started, especially with learning the language and figuring out how to best take advantage of living in barcelona. my new classmates and roommates will be arriving in just a few days!
the bcea farewell dinner
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i spent Christmas and New Year with deb & larry. (they're a couple who is on staff with campus crusade, and i know them from NYC. they're kind of like surrogate parents to me in barcelona.) their son who's my age, preston, came for the holidays, so that was really fun because we know each other from before and he's as goofy as me. they also had friends visit from the States during New Year's (11-year-old andrew in the picture below is the son). january 6th was Three Kings Day, which is like the big deal holiday in spain, so i stayed until then to watch the parade and see what the festivities would be like.
andrew and preston playing on the playground
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after that, i headed out to italy to visit alissa (my first-year roommate from sarah lawrence) who is studying in florence.
ponte vecchio, firenze
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alissa and me at the top of the duomo of the cathedral
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i also met up with my friend josh (a classmate from barcelona this past semester) and his friends who were backpacking through europe. it was fun to hang out with them all, and we went to museums and all that florencey stuff. for my birthday we went to venice, and they treated me to a gondola ride, which was really nice.
ilan, maya, me, and josh on the gondola ride in venice (jackie is taking the picture)
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for some reason, there's a pieta with an american flag in venice...(josh and me as the pieta)
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josh, ilan, jackie, and maya
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after spending about 5 days in florence, i went off to paris to explore the city and practice my french! i had a great time by myself, walking around and doing whatever i felt like. i met up with a couple friends from sarah lawrence to have lunch, and other than that had no schedule to stick to. it was lovely. one day, maybe after i graduate, i might go back there to work on my french.
i happened to walk by the moulin rouge while i was exploring montmartre.
crepe stand near the eiffel tower
now i'm here in nice, and i'm going to return to barcelona tomorrow. i met up with my friend nosheen here (i met her at the hostel in aix-en-provence earlier this year), so that was cool.
nosheen and me in our hostel
the weather is so nice here, and the sea is beautiful.
yesterday i went to monaco with some friends i met in the hostel. what a strange place...i don't think i would ever want to live there because all there is there are cars and money.
extra fancy spilt milk and a 5-euro cafe au lait
there are tons of aussies here in my hostel, so i'm perfecting my australian dialect. oh how i love accents! i've gotten to speak chinese, french, spanish, (pretend) italian, and all kinds of english during my trip. and i've met some fun people along the way.
the lone american in a sea of aussies (at eze village, a medieval town between nice and monaco)
anyway, my plans for today and the next couple days are to just have a lot of time alone reading and writing and quieting my heart before the craziness of the new semester comes. i have loved being able to use my french, but i have to get back into spanish mode again!
to see more pictures:
http://www.dropshots.com/thescarlettruth
http://www.dropshots.com/brokencitylights
paris: http://slc.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2008043&l=bcc93&id=28600003
nice & monaco: http://slc.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2008044&l=2bf0f&id=28600003
i went to dublin a month and a half ago and i loved it! i'll have to do a make-up post for that trip too...
i spent the first half of my break from school in barcelona. all of my classmates either left to go home or to travel, so it was a little sad to see everyone go after having spent a semester together. i'm glad i'm staying for the year because i feel like i've only just gotten started, especially with learning the language and figuring out how to best take advantage of living in barcelona. my new classmates and roommates will be arriving in just a few days!
the bcea farewell dinner
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i spent Christmas and New Year with deb & larry. (they're a couple who is on staff with campus crusade, and i know them from NYC. they're kind of like surrogate parents to me in barcelona.) their son who's my age, preston, came for the holidays, so that was really fun because we know each other from before and he's as goofy as me. they also had friends visit from the States during New Year's (11-year-old andrew in the picture below is the son). january 6th was Three Kings Day, which is like the big deal holiday in spain, so i stayed until then to watch the parade and see what the festivities would be like.
andrew and preston playing on the playground
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after that, i headed out to italy to visit alissa (my first-year roommate from sarah lawrence) who is studying in florence.
ponte vecchio, firenze
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alissa and me at the top of the duomo of the cathedral
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i also met up with my friend josh (a classmate from barcelona this past semester) and his friends who were backpacking through europe. it was fun to hang out with them all, and we went to museums and all that florencey stuff. for my birthday we went to venice, and they treated me to a gondola ride, which was really nice.
ilan, maya, me, and josh on the gondola ride in venice (jackie is taking the picture)
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for some reason, there's a pieta with an american flag in venice...(josh and me as the pieta)
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josh, ilan, jackie, and maya
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after spending about 5 days in florence, i went off to paris to explore the city and practice my french! i had a great time by myself, walking around and doing whatever i felt like. i met up with a couple friends from sarah lawrence to have lunch, and other than that had no schedule to stick to. it was lovely. one day, maybe after i graduate, i might go back there to work on my french.
i happened to walk by the moulin rouge while i was exploring montmartre.
crepe stand near the eiffel tower
now i'm here in nice, and i'm going to return to barcelona tomorrow. i met up with my friend nosheen here (i met her at the hostel in aix-en-provence earlier this year), so that was cool.
nosheen and me in our hostel
the weather is so nice here, and the sea is beautiful.
yesterday i went to monaco with some friends i met in the hostel. what a strange place...i don't think i would ever want to live there because all there is there are cars and money.
extra fancy spilt milk and a 5-euro cafe au lait
there are tons of aussies here in my hostel, so i'm perfecting my australian dialect. oh how i love accents! i've gotten to speak chinese, french, spanish, (pretend) italian, and all kinds of english during my trip. and i've met some fun people along the way.
the lone american in a sea of aussies (at eze village, a medieval town between nice and monaco)
anyway, my plans for today and the next couple days are to just have a lot of time alone reading and writing and quieting my heart before the craziness of the new semester comes. i have loved being able to use my french, but i have to get back into spanish mode again!
to see more pictures:
http://www.dropshots.com/thescarlettruth
http://www.dropshots.com/brokencitylights
paris: http://slc.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2008043&l=bcc93&id=28600003
nice & monaco: http://slc.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2008044&l=2bf0f&id=28600003
i went to dublin a month and a half ago and i loved it! i'll have to do a make-up post for that trip too...