emili's here!!!
so, i have a friend visiting me. she is none other than the wonderful emili whom i adore (and spent the summer with in good old AK).
i never said much about spain. in the interests of time and space...suffice to say, for the most part it was great. particularly the parts that i spent alone, if i have to be honest. we were south of malaga on the coast, in calahonda, which is right between fuengirola and marbella. also went to sevilla for a day. ive found that i rather like traveling on my own. tattoo is great, parasailing was cool, the dinner we made was excellent, etc etc. the cathedral in sevilla was beautiful. my only regret was that i didnt get to the zoo (*sad face*). the beach was great too, i even got a bit of a tan! (though since i got my tattoo and couldnt lay in the sun, i have a really sexy - just kidding - tan line about 5 inches below my knees. yeah.
ireland was pretty frickin cool too. went to a great bar friday night and met some really cool guys - i love it when i dont have to buy my own drinks haha. rob was really nice (cute too! :)). saturday carrie got there!!! w00t i was so excited...the 4 of us went to st patricks cathedral, where there was a bunch of stuff on jonathan swift and i was really excited. the guinness factory was kinda boring, but oh well. carrie and i went to a traditional irish pub saturday night, it was great. then came the drama of saturday night which i will refrain from mentioning except to say that i am again sick of taking care of drunk people, and i dont understand that when they tell me to remove myself from the situation (and i do, by A) not going out with them and B) not even staying in the same place with them), that they come and find me for help and get upset with me for not being able to do anything. yeah. whatever. sunday was good, lots of christmas shopping and the like. and carrie and i saw corpse bride!!! it was AMAZING!!! sunday night a girl broke into our hostel room and stole 3 cell phones, 3 passports, 2 wallets, and my bag of british pounds (almost $50 worth!). funny though, she didnt take my passport, or my wallet, but went through my bag and left it there. the only passports were european union ones, from france and germany. it was kinda scary, kinda sucked. the hostel had terrible security, too. (which was first evidenced when a drunken acquaintance merely had to give carries first name at 2am in order to get our room number, even though said acquaintance wasnt even staying at the hostel.)
i hate the people that run the internet here...we keep getting kicked out at 9pm every night instead of it being open 24 hours b/c of some power problem. speaking of power problems...
the campus and whole town lost power on tuesday afternoon. this led to us being evacuated to either an auditorium or the gym from about 7pm til 1am. that was fun. just kidding. we decided to play beer pong and things like that...then some stupid kid dropped an unopened pint can of beer off the balcony...which landed on my foot. it seriously dented the rim of the can when it hit me. im pretty sure i didnt break anything, but i have a massive bruise (and my foot is hard underneath it) and my toe doesnt really bend right now. (it was the metatarsal of my middle toe that got it.) it looks terrible. all in all, it was a weird night. got cold too, b/c there wasnt any heat. then there was no hot water the next day b/c of the power outage. and they still dont know what caused it.
but emili is here and we are gonna have a BLAST for the next couple weeks!!! ...and after that, 3 weeks til i go home!
im off to go see if i can plan our trip to london to see the harry potter premiere next month!!!
*katie*
i never said much about spain. in the interests of time and space...suffice to say, for the most part it was great. particularly the parts that i spent alone, if i have to be honest. we were south of malaga on the coast, in calahonda, which is right between fuengirola and marbella. also went to sevilla for a day. ive found that i rather like traveling on my own. tattoo is great, parasailing was cool, the dinner we made was excellent, etc etc. the cathedral in sevilla was beautiful. my only regret was that i didnt get to the zoo (*sad face*). the beach was great too, i even got a bit of a tan! (though since i got my tattoo and couldnt lay in the sun, i have a really sexy - just kidding - tan line about 5 inches below my knees. yeah.
ireland was pretty frickin cool too. went to a great bar friday night and met some really cool guys - i love it when i dont have to buy my own drinks haha. rob was really nice (cute too! :)). saturday carrie got there!!! w00t i was so excited...the 4 of us went to st patricks cathedral, where there was a bunch of stuff on jonathan swift and i was really excited. the guinness factory was kinda boring, but oh well. carrie and i went to a traditional irish pub saturday night, it was great. then came the drama of saturday night which i will refrain from mentioning except to say that i am again sick of taking care of drunk people, and i dont understand that when they tell me to remove myself from the situation (and i do, by A) not going out with them and B) not even staying in the same place with them), that they come and find me for help and get upset with me for not being able to do anything. yeah. whatever. sunday was good, lots of christmas shopping and the like. and carrie and i saw corpse bride!!! it was AMAZING!!! sunday night a girl broke into our hostel room and stole 3 cell phones, 3 passports, 2 wallets, and my bag of british pounds (almost $50 worth!). funny though, she didnt take my passport, or my wallet, but went through my bag and left it there. the only passports were european union ones, from france and germany. it was kinda scary, kinda sucked. the hostel had terrible security, too. (which was first evidenced when a drunken acquaintance merely had to give carries first name at 2am in order to get our room number, even though said acquaintance wasnt even staying at the hostel.)
i hate the people that run the internet here...we keep getting kicked out at 9pm every night instead of it being open 24 hours b/c of some power problem. speaking of power problems...
the campus and whole town lost power on tuesday afternoon. this led to us being evacuated to either an auditorium or the gym from about 7pm til 1am. that was fun. just kidding. we decided to play beer pong and things like that...then some stupid kid dropped an unopened pint can of beer off the balcony...which landed on my foot. it seriously dented the rim of the can when it hit me. im pretty sure i didnt break anything, but i have a massive bruise (and my foot is hard underneath it) and my toe doesnt really bend right now. (it was the metatarsal of my middle toe that got it.) it looks terrible. all in all, it was a weird night. got cold too, b/c there wasnt any heat. then there was no hot water the next day b/c of the power outage. and they still dont know what caused it.
but emili is here and we are gonna have a BLAST for the next couple weeks!!! ...and after that, 3 weeks til i go home!
im off to go see if i can plan our trip to london to see the harry potter premiere next month!!!
*katie*