its been so insane since paris!been preparing for parents to get here, writing two major papers and catching up with my journals for internship as well as saying goodbye to some of the other interns there. so that has for the most part been my life recently that and lack of sleep.
but all of that is done now. so now we plan for the travel break i'm going with halie and jesse to austria to go on the sound of music tour its going to be epic.
recently i went to dover it is so beautiful there so much walking though and stone beaches not fun! very painful on bear feet. i have now been in the mediteranian, the adrien sea, the atlantic both sides, the gulf of mexico, and the channel. the white cliffs of dover are covered with grass and moss type things very pretty although in the spring not so nice to the sinuses.
today i went to twinings tea shop once i found it it is very small, it was fun, they even have a limited edition wedding tea (that is my i was there at the royal wedding thing) after wondering around there for a while and a lunch back at the daniel house i went to go find the library cause i couldn't wonder around outside since i need to breath. so i found the British library and i was going to get a library card just cause, but you have to have proof of residency which i didn't have at that time and that library doesn't have fiction(or is it non-fiction?) so i didn't want a library card from them anyway. there is a library close to the daniel house but i couldn't find it so halie and i might be going there tomorrow. we shall see i'm tired and its almost dinner time so until later
from london with love
Wednesday, 20 April 2011
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
ah! Parie!
this weekend we went to Paris, i forgot my notebook so you won't be getting day by day notes, sorry. we went there by the eurostar which goes under the tunnel which i would have loved to have watched out the window until we went into the tunnel, but i was in a seat backwards so to keep from getting motion sick i slept the whole way.... it was early in the morning when we started out and the train ride was only two hours so that helped but i was very sad i couldn't watch at all, on the way back i was facing forwards but it was night so i couldn't see anything. sadness
we got to paris around lunch time and had a three hour bus tour, it wasn't as bad as the Edinburgh tour we got to see the major sights and things like that which was good. after the tour we went to our hotel which had amazing beds so comfy! and our window lead out to the roof which of course for a little while i walked on cause i could :). since it was the first day and we were still rather tired, my group just walked along the Seine river and just wondered about like you should do on your first day anywhere. i got my first paris print so that if i didn't have a chance to get one again i would have it. it was a lot of fun just walking along the river looking at stuff. since we were on the content they don't have dinner until late so at our normal dinner time or just before we had crepes, which was fun. then towards their dinner time we found a little french restaurant, one of the girls in my group spoke french so she translated the menu for us and spoke to the waiter in french which was pretty cool. they have 3 course meals as the main thing, so if you look for it you can get soup (or an apittizer) main course and desert for 10 euros, which is pretty good. during that day we also walked by the green boxes which are on the banks of the river they sell a lot of touristy things but also books, tons and tons of really really old books! i was very excited at first but then when i looked at the books, they were all in french which made me sad.... it makes sense for them to be in french but they didn't even have any good english books! they had some really neat looking old books for 2 euro each!! but i couldn't get them cause i don't know french nor do i know anyone who would want one who does know french.... sad day!
on the second day we did all the things we need to do, we went first to the Louve saw the mona lisa of course and then i went to go see the paintings from Flanders since that is where my name comes from just to see since there wasn't anything else i really thought i wanted to see. i broke off from the others went to see that then headed to our meeting place which was the statue of Venus that for some reason is famous still don't know why cause i've seen many other statues of her but apparently that one is famous so it was a meeting place. the others had a much larger area to go through so they weren't there so i wondered around the area and the floors connected to that one, which included the medieval Louve section. i thought it was going to be a whole bunch of medieval painting and such but it wasn't it was the old walls of the basement which i loved! it was so quite down there because it was still decently early in the day, well maybe not actually it might have been 12 or close to that so lunch time, in any case not many people down there. i went on this one off shoot of it and it was a center stone column wall type thing but the amazing thing about this one was there was only me and this one other person who walked in before me and he had rubber soled shoes on so there was no noise in there at all, it was so cool (in the cold format of the word) and quiet i loved it, unfortuantly when i took some of the others down there for they wanted a picture with the wall since it is mentioned in Kate and Leopold there were a lot more people down there making it not as quite as i remembered.
after the Louve we went and got baguettes and ate them by the river which was fun accept my sandwich tried to leak all over me! i foiled its plot though with a napkin and leaning. we also figured something i thought was interesting out, the river boats only go one way at certain times, when we were there it was only going up the river never down, its too small for two of those barges to pass each other i think. after lunch (which was like 3) we headed to Notre Dame where we were supposed to meet up with someone else, they got lost trying to find us, and ended up finding us when we were in the cathedral. it is a beautiful cathedral but at the same time simple, the outside is what is most amazing about it. originally it was painted many bright colors and i wonder why it is not still that way today it would make it that much more amazing (?) vibrant(?) i can't think of a proper word for it.... as we had to leave because the cathedral was about to have mass, it started to rain... we were going to go and climb the eiffel tower then but decided to wait on that since on the way to the metro stop we got soaked. so we headed back to the hotel for a bit of rest before heading out again for dinner. dinner was a stranger affair, we were all starving by the time we headed out and one of the girls wanted a salad that wasn't really expensive so we found a place that had 10 euro salad so that is where we went. i ended up having a weird sounding dish that was like meatloaf with an egg on top pretty good actually. i did have some red wine with my meal, i don't like wine at least not red wine, the first sip was good but after that it just went down hill, i did not finish it, it wasn't expensive wine which was good apperently wine in Paris is very cheap, not sure if that's just the quality or just the price or both but i'm not drinking red wine again cause i don't like it.
so then on sunday we climbed the eiffel tower and yes we climbed it! it was cheaper and a shorter line to climb the tower then to ride up a elevator, unfortuatly you can't climb to the very top but you get really far up so we were ok with that. there were too many stairs for me to count how many i climbed but it was a lot!!!
after the eiffel tower the group split up some of them were going to the Louve and things of that nature since the day before they had gone to Versailles, then some went to the impressionist art museum, then the group i was in went to the green boxes! i do so love those.
i wanted to get a better idea of what all was in those boxes plus i wanted to get another painting if i could find anything and family gifts and such. i had already gotten a print of the eiffel tower in Autumn and now i got a painting of Notre dame at night or with a very blue sky; as well as family gifts but i'm not going to tell you what those are :) there was one painting i saw that i really wanted but i saw it from the bus and never saw it again, it was of a girl with gourgous background and all the right colors i thought but i could not find it so i got other paintings that are just as good. i think i'm now going to look for a few prints or paintings from london to go with those either in my room at home or my dorm room it all depends. we just wondered and wondered around that area having a good ol time, before that we had lunch and it took us forever to find somewhere to eat! we ended up having something i'd never had before a crepe with meat in it! it was really good. then we took the metro back (oh and once we found a double decker underground train!!!! it was so weird and cool at the same time) to the hotel and left from there. and that is the paris trip.
now back to real life.....
from london with love
we got to paris around lunch time and had a three hour bus tour, it wasn't as bad as the Edinburgh tour we got to see the major sights and things like that which was good. after the tour we went to our hotel which had amazing beds so comfy! and our window lead out to the roof which of course for a little while i walked on cause i could :). since it was the first day and we were still rather tired, my group just walked along the Seine river and just wondered about like you should do on your first day anywhere. i got my first paris print so that if i didn't have a chance to get one again i would have it. it was a lot of fun just walking along the river looking at stuff. since we were on the content they don't have dinner until late so at our normal dinner time or just before we had crepes, which was fun. then towards their dinner time we found a little french restaurant, one of the girls in my group spoke french so she translated the menu for us and spoke to the waiter in french which was pretty cool. they have 3 course meals as the main thing, so if you look for it you can get soup (or an apittizer) main course and desert for 10 euros, which is pretty good. during that day we also walked by the green boxes which are on the banks of the river they sell a lot of touristy things but also books, tons and tons of really really old books! i was very excited at first but then when i looked at the books, they were all in french which made me sad.... it makes sense for them to be in french but they didn't even have any good english books! they had some really neat looking old books for 2 euro each!! but i couldn't get them cause i don't know french nor do i know anyone who would want one who does know french.... sad day!
on the second day we did all the things we need to do, we went first to the Louve saw the mona lisa of course and then i went to go see the paintings from Flanders since that is where my name comes from just to see since there wasn't anything else i really thought i wanted to see. i broke off from the others went to see that then headed to our meeting place which was the statue of Venus that for some reason is famous still don't know why cause i've seen many other statues of her but apparently that one is famous so it was a meeting place. the others had a much larger area to go through so they weren't there so i wondered around the area and the floors connected to that one, which included the medieval Louve section. i thought it was going to be a whole bunch of medieval painting and such but it wasn't it was the old walls of the basement which i loved! it was so quite down there because it was still decently early in the day, well maybe not actually it might have been 12 or close to that so lunch time, in any case not many people down there. i went on this one off shoot of it and it was a center stone column wall type thing but the amazing thing about this one was there was only me and this one other person who walked in before me and he had rubber soled shoes on so there was no noise in there at all, it was so cool (in the cold format of the word) and quiet i loved it, unfortuantly when i took some of the others down there for they wanted a picture with the wall since it is mentioned in Kate and Leopold there were a lot more people down there making it not as quite as i remembered.
after the Louve we went and got baguettes and ate them by the river which was fun accept my sandwich tried to leak all over me! i foiled its plot though with a napkin and leaning. we also figured something i thought was interesting out, the river boats only go one way at certain times, when we were there it was only going up the river never down, its too small for two of those barges to pass each other i think. after lunch (which was like 3) we headed to Notre Dame where we were supposed to meet up with someone else, they got lost trying to find us, and ended up finding us when we were in the cathedral. it is a beautiful cathedral but at the same time simple, the outside is what is most amazing about it. originally it was painted many bright colors and i wonder why it is not still that way today it would make it that much more amazing (?) vibrant(?) i can't think of a proper word for it.... as we had to leave because the cathedral was about to have mass, it started to rain... we were going to go and climb the eiffel tower then but decided to wait on that since on the way to the metro stop we got soaked. so we headed back to the hotel for a bit of rest before heading out again for dinner. dinner was a stranger affair, we were all starving by the time we headed out and one of the girls wanted a salad that wasn't really expensive so we found a place that had 10 euro salad so that is where we went. i ended up having a weird sounding dish that was like meatloaf with an egg on top pretty good actually. i did have some red wine with my meal, i don't like wine at least not red wine, the first sip was good but after that it just went down hill, i did not finish it, it wasn't expensive wine which was good apperently wine in Paris is very cheap, not sure if that's just the quality or just the price or both but i'm not drinking red wine again cause i don't like it.
so then on sunday we climbed the eiffel tower and yes we climbed it! it was cheaper and a shorter line to climb the tower then to ride up a elevator, unfortuatly you can't climb to the very top but you get really far up so we were ok with that. there were too many stairs for me to count how many i climbed but it was a lot!!!
after the eiffel tower the group split up some of them were going to the Louve and things of that nature since the day before they had gone to Versailles, then some went to the impressionist art museum, then the group i was in went to the green boxes! i do so love those.
i wanted to get a better idea of what all was in those boxes plus i wanted to get another painting if i could find anything and family gifts and such. i had already gotten a print of the eiffel tower in Autumn and now i got a painting of Notre dame at night or with a very blue sky; as well as family gifts but i'm not going to tell you what those are :) there was one painting i saw that i really wanted but i saw it from the bus and never saw it again, it was of a girl with gourgous background and all the right colors i thought but i could not find it so i got other paintings that are just as good. i think i'm now going to look for a few prints or paintings from london to go with those either in my room at home or my dorm room it all depends. we just wondered and wondered around that area having a good ol time, before that we had lunch and it took us forever to find somewhere to eat! we ended up having something i'd never had before a crepe with meat in it! it was really good. then we took the metro back (oh and once we found a double decker underground train!!!! it was so weird and cool at the same time) to the hotel and left from there. and that is the paris trip.
now back to real life.....
from london with love
Thursday, 24 March 2011
the amazing Irish people
on the bus ride from Bantry to Cork we had a full bus so i had this really nice lady sitting next to me. we got to talking during the ride which made the ride much more enjoyable and it was a pretty horrible ride. the roads in Ireland are... i can't even describe how horrible they are; i don't get motion sick that easily especially if i sit in the front, and on that ride i felt like i was about to puke. this lady (i either don't remember her name or i didn't get it) helped me be able to get to the train station without getting lost which without her i would have. so i found my train and got on it, the irish rails not much better than the roads. it makes it very hard to write when bumping about. unfortuantly i got to dublin about 4 in the afternoon, it takes a lot longer to travel in Ireland than you would think. i arrived just too late for the parades, but i did get to see them on the tv that night, i'm kinda glad i missed it tell you the truth cause there looked like there would have been so many people and unless i had already dropped off my bag at my hotel i would have been too worried about it to enjoy the parade; plus the commentary on the telly told me the meaning behind the parade it was off of a book called Brilliant by Roddy Doyle written especially for the 2011 st. patricks day parade. and it was a brilliant parade from what i could see. i missed that but i did get to meet my second amazingly helpful Irish person this time it was an elderly gentleman who sat next to me on the Luas (tram, trolley type thing) he was defiantly an old school gentleman, he didn't have any of the gaudy st. Patrick day garb on he only had i think it was a bundle of shamrocks or clover (whatever the traditional way to celebrate St. Patrick's day is) pined to his coat, we got to talking and he found out i'd already gotten myself slightly lost trying to get around, Dublin is not very good at posting maps or even street signs, and their streets change names like 5 times a long the same road very tourist unfriendly. so he gave me directions to my hotel and he was getting off at the same stop so he got me on the right street and told me to walk straight never left or right only straight (i thought of horse and his boy at this time "straight ahead you'll find king lune straight ahead, go straight always straight.) my hotel was about 15 to 20 min walk up a hill dragging my bag behind me!! the hotel was amazing though i had a gloriously warm night and there was a continental breakfast in the morning. on the way to meet up with Grace again in the morning(would have stayed with her but her hotel was booked up, thought my hotel was pretty close but i was wrong) first thing i got a map from the receptionist, it lied to me though. so i was pretty sure of the way back to the Luas but wasn't completely sure so i asked someone it turned out he was walking there too so we walked together, his name if i'm remembering correctly is Berkan (i'm sure about the first 3 letters anyway) he helped me buy my ticket for the Luas and i think if i would not have been able to finish paying for it he would have helped me, he is even a university student a composer of piano music he is finishing his 4th year at their music school and will be going to the royal music academy in london next year. it was fun talking about th differences between country and cities he agrees with me that country is much better. we parted ways at the end of the green line after he pointed me towards the shopping district where i was to meet grace. we did a little shopping then had a simple lunch and looked at the map to see what we wanted to see, initially i wanted to see the writers museum but it was way to far from where we were so instead we decided on kilmainham gaol which looked a lot closer, we were wrong. after walking for about 3 hours we got to the point where it was supposed to be and it wasn't there. this is when i decided that should anyone want to go to dublin i'm going to tell them stay in the city center, if you want to go somewhere outside of it figure the buses out or forget about it, it ain't happing. that's all there is to it dublin is way to chaotic for anyone to figure out how to get around unless you live there or can read gaelic. their signs are in both Gaelic and english but about half the time the english is faded. this is all i have to say about dublin love the people dislike the place, although it is the only big city i've found with that much green vegetation.
next plane flight
from dublin with love
next plane flight
from dublin with love
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Sea breeze, the smell of salt air and.... rocks
i know last time i wrote i said i'd write by the water but when i was by the water i ended up wondering across the rocks instead of writing. it is so gorgeous i ended up exhausting my camera battery by taking so many pictures. it was also incredibly peaceful everything here (well accept the bus rides) has been so peaceful its great now i can properly handle the big cites and the massive amount of people they entail. sitting here and looking out one window and seeing rolling green hills dotted with stones and out the other the sea, its wonderful. it seems really similar and at the same time so different from home. its so calm here i find myself constantly wondering off into my own little world. when i was by the sea i was looking in the water at the rocks and shells when something caught my eye, it was sea glass! i was very excited it was green sea glass the color of ireland. so i went on for hours looking for more all up and down the bit of coast i have access to. i loved it! the only thing missing was the sand...... there were only rocks as it seems to be in Europe the sea smell was great though. the sun is down its time for dinner next time i'll be writing from dublin!
from Bantry with love
from Bantry with love
the day of wondering now why did i do this?
so first thing our train was late making it impossible for me to make my flight, i should have taken the bus in the first place and all this would have been avoided; coulda, shoulda, woulda..... what 's done is done. so after my flight where i was rerouted to a different city i then had to catch 2 buses to get to cork then a bus to bantry and so here i am. Jean couldn't come and get me at that time but it was no big deal i had my warm cloths and the sun was shining so i found the library read a newspaper and i found a leaflet that gave me a path of historic bantry, i followed most of it then i got board so i wondered back to the town square and started writing and waited till Jean arrived and she took me to her home in the sticks (and yes that is what she called it which made me happy, and expression from home!) well it might have originated out here but whatever will write more tomorrow maybe by the water.
from ireland with love
from ireland with love
at the train station
(these next few posts are my Ireland posts)
i left too early in one aspect the train station doesn't open until 4, and I've been here for over an hour already and its only 2:45 for most of the time sitting here though I had a friend, now i know you told me not to talk with anyone but Dad she was single female as well, and she talked to me first. we were both headed to the same place well airport she was going to home to Milan but for both of us being together at least for a little while was better for both of us, it was safer and more fun. she told me her name but unfortunately since it was Italin and i'm bad at names so i don't remember it. she is getting her Phd in Astro-physisis and she is working in the technology part working on creating a telescope type thing that can see the new type of light that has been discovered, she's pretty coll! it was good though that i found her to hang out with because that gave me the confidence to ask the questions that needed to be asked like when the station opened. it also helped because a while after we got together a very confused boy walked by and i tried to help him but he didn't know english, he was Italian though so she was able to help him, which was good since he was looking for the bus stop and i'm not sure how many people know italian that are up this early. the unfortunate thing is that she joined him on the bus, i probably should have joined them but oh well, i only have an hour till the station opens then i'll practically be at the airport! on to IRELAND!!!!
from london with love
i left too early in one aspect the train station doesn't open until 4, and I've been here for over an hour already and its only 2:45 for most of the time sitting here though I had a friend, now i know you told me not to talk with anyone but Dad she was single female as well, and she talked to me first. we were both headed to the same place well airport she was going to home to Milan but for both of us being together at least for a little while was better for both of us, it was safer and more fun. she told me her name but unfortunately since it was Italin and i'm bad at names so i don't remember it. she is getting her Phd in Astro-physisis and she is working in the technology part working on creating a telescope type thing that can see the new type of light that has been discovered, she's pretty coll! it was good though that i found her to hang out with because that gave me the confidence to ask the questions that needed to be asked like when the station opened. it also helped because a while after we got together a very confused boy walked by and i tried to help him but he didn't know english, he was Italian though so she was able to help him, which was good since he was looking for the bus stop and i'm not sure how many people know italian that are up this early. the unfortunate thing is that she joined him on the bus, i probably should have joined them but oh well, i only have an hour till the station opens then i'll practically be at the airport! on to IRELAND!!!!
from london with love
Monday, 14 March 2011
time for a breath!
hi! now its spring break and the last week i've been so busy with my major project and sherlock Holmes i've barley had time to breath much less sleep!( i did sleep but ya know not as much as i'd like) actually last sunday it was so weird i couldn't sleep at all, maybe i got an hour of sleep but it was horrible! i went to bed at a normal hour and just couldn't get my brain to shut up! but that is beside the point
last week was woman in white which i finished on time!! this week was Jack the Ripper and the hound of the Baskervilles and the last day of classes. with the last day of classes we all had presentations to present, a visual narrative. she gave us the project really early in the semester so i had a long time to prepare for it. unlike most times i actually worked the whole time on it, well once i figured out what i was going to do that is. they have free newspapers here and so i decided to use parts of the newspapers in my project. the class is a Gothic literature class and the project had to deal with the themes of Gothic that we saw the most, and the one i saw and wanted to deal with was appearance vs reality, also when i decided to use this theme we had only read Frankenstein which was very much appearance vs reality; but when your working from a newspaper that's kinda hard to portray. i still collected newspapers so i had this huge stack of them in my room, i called myself a newspaper stalker because every time there was someone with a newspaper on the tube i would watch them hoping they would get off the tube before me and leave their newspaper. i felt very creepy. my friends helped me in that some of them that had internships where they would go by tube would bring back the metro because that was a better newspaper then the evening standard, even though they were essentially the same thing. the evening standard is kinda a sensational newspaper which is unfortunate for the people since thats the newspaper most people read but it was good for me. like i said earlier appearance vs reality is very hard to portray out of a newspaper and that was what i wanted to work with, so i had to change my theme none of the other themes seemed to work except the theme of death and the dark side of human nature. this one was perfect at least at this time because of the rebellions in the middle east and how Gaddaffi was killing off all his people and being so bloody. i had so many articles they probably would have covered a rather large bulliten board but since i did not have that large of a space i had to cut the articles down to main points and headlines. in realiy the main prolem i had with this entire project is that they do not have walmart or target or even k-mart here, therefore to find a good board for my project i had to go to so many stores and then i had to go to even more stores to find sticky notes and tacks, for my project i had decided was going to be like a crazy conspirators wall you know where they have newspaper clippings all over the place connected by red string? well that is what i went for just on a much smaller scale, even though i would have loved to have done something that big i just didn't want to pay for something that big. my end project i thought was pretty amazing unfortuantly i didn't have any red string i only had black well one of the other girls let me use some of her black string so that was what i used so i didn't have to go and pay for it somewhere else, they really need walmart over here it would have made it much simpler. the end result looks pretty cool and i might get a picture of it and put it up soon, but that is mainly what i did last week.
one other thing well this was actually when we were on spring break, my jeans decided they wanted to finally get a hole in them but instead of in the knee which i could patch easily they decided to get a hole in an unfortunate place that i could not patch so i had to go and buy some jeans. at first i was lost and confused with their sizes but actually it is much easier then at home! i think it was the second store we went into the first was Prymart which is supposed to be the cheapest but there were so many people it was utter chaos and when we did find the jeans they were all skinny jeans which i didn't want, so we left and the next store we went into ended up being the store i bought my jeans in! when we found the jeans they had two numbers on them one that looked similar to our sizing and another that i found out was the length, when i found a good dark pair that looked about my length i also grabbed my size i thought and tried them on, they fit so perfectly! they are the right length and so far they fit around the waist without a belt! they are long enough which is almost impossible for me to find!!! we shall see how they do after this week of hard wearing, i don't have enough space or weight to bring another pair of jeans so while i'm on my trip these are the only pants i'll be wearing...
which brings us to my spring break trip!!!! i'm going to Ireland!!!!!!!!! so excited! i'll be flying into cork early tomorrow spending the day there and then on st. patricks day i'll be taking a bus up to dublin and meeting with my cousins there and having major fun going to belfast for a day and a half then back to cork to fly home/daniel house (home in london)! i am very supper excited i can't believe that in just one day i will be going somewhere i've wanted to go all my life! so now i must finish getting ready and i will be writing on a notebook to tell you of all the wonderful things i find in ireland! get excited!
from london with love
last week was woman in white which i finished on time!! this week was Jack the Ripper and the hound of the Baskervilles and the last day of classes. with the last day of classes we all had presentations to present, a visual narrative. she gave us the project really early in the semester so i had a long time to prepare for it. unlike most times i actually worked the whole time on it, well once i figured out what i was going to do that is. they have free newspapers here and so i decided to use parts of the newspapers in my project. the class is a Gothic literature class and the project had to deal with the themes of Gothic that we saw the most, and the one i saw and wanted to deal with was appearance vs reality, also when i decided to use this theme we had only read Frankenstein which was very much appearance vs reality; but when your working from a newspaper that's kinda hard to portray. i still collected newspapers so i had this huge stack of them in my room, i called myself a newspaper stalker because every time there was someone with a newspaper on the tube i would watch them hoping they would get off the tube before me and leave their newspaper. i felt very creepy. my friends helped me in that some of them that had internships where they would go by tube would bring back the metro because that was a better newspaper then the evening standard, even though they were essentially the same thing. the evening standard is kinda a sensational newspaper which is unfortunate for the people since thats the newspaper most people read but it was good for me. like i said earlier appearance vs reality is very hard to portray out of a newspaper and that was what i wanted to work with, so i had to change my theme none of the other themes seemed to work except the theme of death and the dark side of human nature. this one was perfect at least at this time because of the rebellions in the middle east and how Gaddaffi was killing off all his people and being so bloody. i had so many articles they probably would have covered a rather large bulliten board but since i did not have that large of a space i had to cut the articles down to main points and headlines. in realiy the main prolem i had with this entire project is that they do not have walmart or target or even k-mart here, therefore to find a good board for my project i had to go to so many stores and then i had to go to even more stores to find sticky notes and tacks, for my project i had decided was going to be like a crazy conspirators wall you know where they have newspaper clippings all over the place connected by red string? well that is what i went for just on a much smaller scale, even though i would have loved to have done something that big i just didn't want to pay for something that big. my end project i thought was pretty amazing unfortuantly i didn't have any red string i only had black well one of the other girls let me use some of her black string so that was what i used so i didn't have to go and pay for it somewhere else, they really need walmart over here it would have made it much simpler. the end result looks pretty cool and i might get a picture of it and put it up soon, but that is mainly what i did last week.
one other thing well this was actually when we were on spring break, my jeans decided they wanted to finally get a hole in them but instead of in the knee which i could patch easily they decided to get a hole in an unfortunate place that i could not patch so i had to go and buy some jeans. at first i was lost and confused with their sizes but actually it is much easier then at home! i think it was the second store we went into the first was Prymart which is supposed to be the cheapest but there were so many people it was utter chaos and when we did find the jeans they were all skinny jeans which i didn't want, so we left and the next store we went into ended up being the store i bought my jeans in! when we found the jeans they had two numbers on them one that looked similar to our sizing and another that i found out was the length, when i found a good dark pair that looked about my length i also grabbed my size i thought and tried them on, they fit so perfectly! they are the right length and so far they fit around the waist without a belt! they are long enough which is almost impossible for me to find!!! we shall see how they do after this week of hard wearing, i don't have enough space or weight to bring another pair of jeans so while i'm on my trip these are the only pants i'll be wearing...
which brings us to my spring break trip!!!! i'm going to Ireland!!!!!!!!! so excited! i'll be flying into cork early tomorrow spending the day there and then on st. patricks day i'll be taking a bus up to dublin and meeting with my cousins there and having major fun going to belfast for a day and a half then back to cork to fly home/daniel house (home in london)! i am very supper excited i can't believe that in just one day i will be going somewhere i've wanted to go all my life! so now i must finish getting ready and i will be writing on a notebook to tell you of all the wonderful things i find in ireland! get excited!
from london with love
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