11 days until Tara and I are in Madrid!
14 days until my birthday and we go to Lisbon!!
17 days until Tara is in Amsterdam with me :)
32 days until Trevor comes to Amsterdam
39 days until Trevor and I go to ITALY!
~45 days until I go homeeee
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Well hallelujah I got into school and I have accepted a place at Birkbeck College (University of London) and start classes October 2nd!!! Ah I can't believe I am going to be a masters student and that I am spending another year living abroad. I don't know when I will think to myself "hey, i miss home and i want to live in america" so until then I will keep just scooting around the world. There are still so many places left to see and experience so we'll see where I end up.
I'm a bit nervous and unsure about moving somewhere new and starting all over yet again. I mean it wasn't hard in the least bit for me to find good friends and adapt to living in a new culture...but it'd be nice if I had a built in network somehow like as an au pair. I guess I will through my classmates and such but when I get there I won't have a family waiting for me to help navigate the city and culture in the beginning. The upside is they speak english, plus they have sexy accents!
Time is FLYING by. I can't believe how soon people are going to start going home. My birthday is rapidly approaching too and I turn 23 aka the 2nd anniversary of my 21st birthday. I'm going to be in Lisbon for my birthday with my best friend Tarrraaa. Her visit is coming up soon!!! July 3rd we will be meeting each other in Madrid and then after a few days there we head to Lisbon. Then she is coming to Amsterdam to stay for a few days before heading back. Shortly after that my family will be leaving for their holiday and I am going to be all alone in the house. The quiet will be nice but I'm going to need to find things to do to occupy my time. I guess start squeezing in everything I haven't had a chance to do yet since I won't have any responsibilities aside from feeding the cats/watching the house and not dying. Then July 24th Trevor will get here!! I can't believe he actually ended up planning a trip; Im so glad he did! It will be really fun to show one of my best guy friends around and show him what my life has been for the past year. I miss having a big group of guys to hang out with and goof off with. He will be here for about a week and then we will go to Italy for 6 days! At that point, I'll have had to have packed up all of my stuff (NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT AT ALL!) and I need to figure out what I'm going to do with it all for the week I am gone and then the ~2 months I am at home for before moving to London.
So, good news everyone. I'll be coming home sometime around August 6th or maybe a few days later depending on what my friends are doing and if I feel like jumping from couch to couch for a couple days before leaving. Then I'll be home until middle/end of September when I will then move to London! Everyone start saving your money and making plans to come visit me there next year! Someone should join me for St. Patrick's Day in Dublin again :)
I'm a bit nervous and unsure about moving somewhere new and starting all over yet again. I mean it wasn't hard in the least bit for me to find good friends and adapt to living in a new culture...but it'd be nice if I had a built in network somehow like as an au pair. I guess I will through my classmates and such but when I get there I won't have a family waiting for me to help navigate the city and culture in the beginning. The upside is they speak english, plus they have sexy accents!
Time is FLYING by. I can't believe how soon people are going to start going home. My birthday is rapidly approaching too and I turn 23 aka the 2nd anniversary of my 21st birthday. I'm going to be in Lisbon for my birthday with my best friend Tarrraaa. Her visit is coming up soon!!! July 3rd we will be meeting each other in Madrid and then after a few days there we head to Lisbon. Then she is coming to Amsterdam to stay for a few days before heading back. Shortly after that my family will be leaving for their holiday and I am going to be all alone in the house. The quiet will be nice but I'm going to need to find things to do to occupy my time. I guess start squeezing in everything I haven't had a chance to do yet since I won't have any responsibilities aside from feeding the cats/watching the house and not dying. Then July 24th Trevor will get here!! I can't believe he actually ended up planning a trip; Im so glad he did! It will be really fun to show one of my best guy friends around and show him what my life has been for the past year. I miss having a big group of guys to hang out with and goof off with. He will be here for about a week and then we will go to Italy for 6 days! At that point, I'll have had to have packed up all of my stuff (NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT AT ALL!) and I need to figure out what I'm going to do with it all for the week I am gone and then the ~2 months I am at home for before moving to London.
So, good news everyone. I'll be coming home sometime around August 6th or maybe a few days later depending on what my friends are doing and if I feel like jumping from couch to couch for a couple days before leaving. Then I'll be home until middle/end of September when I will then move to London! Everyone start saving your money and making plans to come visit me there next year! Someone should join me for St. Patrick's Day in Dublin again :)
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Procrastination...procrastination...procrastination...
Tomorrow is my interview for one of the universities in London that I applied to. Thankfully, today is a holiday and I have the day off so I can spend all day preparing for it! Although when it comes to procrastinating I am the queen. I can find a million other things to do instead of what needs to be done. None of them are worthwhile either or things that I would otherwise do if I didn't have some important thing to get done. I know I do this and yet I still can't stop myself. Writing this blog is just another thing on a long list of stuff to do to procrastinate.
The more I think about things for next year the more I really do realize that school is what I want to do. I keep flip flopping partly because I want to go to school, study, learn and stimulate my brain again but I also love the idea of spending another year living somewhere and exploring, meeting new people like I have spent this last year. Although, I think after a few months I would start to go stir crazy. I need to do something productive and feel like I am getting somewhere so I really hope this whole school bit works out in the end. If it does, then maybe after I get my Masters I can spend some time doing something different and living in another part of the world. After all, I'm not even 23 yet (one month to go! eek) so I shouldn't stress too much about finding a job and figuring out my life in the next few months.
In other news, Trevor is coming to visit me the last week of July and 1st week of August!! I am so excited because the 2nd week he is here I'm planning a trip to Italy! Everyone go ahead and google Cinque Terre because it is absolutely breathtaking and full of hiking with amazing cliffs, rocky edges and beautiful water! Then we will probably see Pisa a bit and try to spend 2 days in Florence. I'm stressing trying to plan this trip ASAP before flight prices go up anymore and I think we will have to couch surf to save money. Seeing as how after being here for a year and only spending money I am going to be flat broke when I get home. Another reason why I am stressing about next year!!! I won't work at summer camp this summer so my bank account will not get the nice little cushion it's used to. BAHHH So if anyone would like do donate money to the Danielle Fund feel free to do so...or for my birthday you could all give me money to fund my wonderful trips and allow me to afford to live at home for a few weeks in August. I wouldn't hate it!
The more I think about things for next year the more I really do realize that school is what I want to do. I keep flip flopping partly because I want to go to school, study, learn and stimulate my brain again but I also love the idea of spending another year living somewhere and exploring, meeting new people like I have spent this last year. Although, I think after a few months I would start to go stir crazy. I need to do something productive and feel like I am getting somewhere so I really hope this whole school bit works out in the end. If it does, then maybe after I get my Masters I can spend some time doing something different and living in another part of the world. After all, I'm not even 23 yet (one month to go! eek) so I shouldn't stress too much about finding a job and figuring out my life in the next few months.
In other news, Trevor is coming to visit me the last week of July and 1st week of August!! I am so excited because the 2nd week he is here I'm planning a trip to Italy! Everyone go ahead and google Cinque Terre because it is absolutely breathtaking and full of hiking with amazing cliffs, rocky edges and beautiful water! Then we will probably see Pisa a bit and try to spend 2 days in Florence. I'm stressing trying to plan this trip ASAP before flight prices go up anymore and I think we will have to couch surf to save money. Seeing as how after being here for a year and only spending money I am going to be flat broke when I get home. Another reason why I am stressing about next year!!! I won't work at summer camp this summer so my bank account will not get the nice little cushion it's used to. BAHHH So if anyone would like do donate money to the Danielle Fund feel free to do so...or for my birthday you could all give me money to fund my wonderful trips and allow me to afford to live at home for a few weeks in August. I wouldn't hate it!
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