Saturday, March 21, 2009

Dublin

Sunday Feb. 22nd, 2009

- met with Ann, walking tour a little around the college,
- walked to city center. We did a Dublin bus tour- stopped at the Guinness Storehouse- was a self- service tour- 7 floors- at top was the Gravity Bar- you could see all of Dublin- mountains nearby and was such a a good view.
We finished the tour and ate at some pub.

We went back to school and hung around Relaxed and bed by 11-- so early lol

Emerald Isle

Saturday February 21, 2009

Today we had a group breakfast, and we had the day to ourselves basically. We went into city center, witnessed a protest. We wlkaed down O-connell street- a main street and on side streets. We got lunch at a restuarant, and later realized it was a french restaurant. go figure the 2nd day in Dublin we went to a french restaurant.

- We went into the main tourist shopping place- Carrolls. Ann said that was teh place to go to get souveniers. We walked back to campus after that.

- Walked to Quinns at night, stayed there for a little bit, and went to a dance club place afterward.

Goodbye Paris, Hello DUBLIN!!

Friday February 20th, 2009

Today we had to be out by 7- it was still dark when we had left. we said all of our goodbyes to our friends. I was a little sad to be going but i could not wait to go to dublin-- i did feel like ready to leave paris tho.

But we were still running late... mising one of the ppl going to dublin with us- he seemed to have "mysteriously" disapeared. But we had to leave- he had left a letter sayign he wasnt going to dublin just yet--- CRAZYYYY story... for later on.

- at the airport- checked in all ppl going to rome, and we then started to go to our place, but we were in the wrong terminal!--- we basically RAN to our terminal, and then it ended up being like a 4 hr delay- we didn't end up boarding the plane til 2.

- We headed into ireland-- IT WAS BEAUTIFUL and green hah
-Once we got our bags, we headed out and looked for someone from st. johns. - Ann was there. She is the sweetest person ever-- always in the best interest of us. It was so weird dirving home- everyone is opposite- steering wheel and road. The college was about a 20 minute ride away from the airport. It was a ncie ride to teh college- everythign was pretty- the weather was so nice- we all had our jackets off, Ann thought it was cold hah. Loved ireladn fomr the minute we landed hah

- after we got to the college, we went ot the coffee dock to meet up and get our keys and learn the rules and everything. We went to late lunch in the cafeteria. Food was so good compared to paris!

- We got back at 6, brought up our luggage, and unpacked for a bit. At 7 we headed out wiht ann to dinner at a place called Porter house that we walked to. It was about a 15 min walk. The walk back seemed quicker for some reason.

<3 Ireland so much!

last day of classes

Thursday february 19th, 2009

- Last day of classes today!
- Woke up early, ate breakfast and studied forever until my theology exam at 8:45.
- I finsihed around 10 maybe.. the test was okay- just as hard as i thoght it would be. Im hoping i did okay- still waiting for the grade.
- afterwards, we went on a food spree- went to get crepes, breakfast in america wiht a group of us one last time for just nachos to share, then to a candy booth to get some for the plane.

- when i got back, i did laundry, and packed packed packed.

- After dinner, there wasa planned paris goodbye party for us.

- that night we stayed out so long at Cafe oz with a huge group of us- prolly didn't get back until 3-- and had to wake up around 5:30/6. we are crazy.

It was a good last night in paris. :D

studying

Wednesday February 18th, 2009

-I basically studied all day and did work for the midterm on thrusday for theology. Class was cancelled all day because he couldn't be in the city today. I stayed in the computer lab all day writing my essay, and sudying, because i was still without my computer.

Philosophy final

Tuesday February 17th, 2009

Today was our philosophy final. After studying forever last night, i woke up for breakfast then went back to bed until 10:30 when i studied some more until our final at 1:30. The final took forever, but it wasn't as bad as i had thought it was. It was 3 long essays, and my hadn killed after it. But i did fine, because i ended up getting an A in the class.

I started to study for theology final that i would have on thursday.

Improvements...

Monday February 16th, 2009

- Today they introduced new additions to our breakfast instad of the 2 croissants and tea. ... Cereal and toast. ovbiously i had some cereal lol

- In class today, Kim Kelly and I presented our Philosophy project about the enlightenment. i think we got an A.

- After class i finished my paper for theology.

Lazy Sunday

Sunday February 15th, 2009

Today was a lazy day- we all stayed in, and did our homework- I got my project for philosophy and part of the paper done for theology.

The city of Love

Saturday February 14th, 2009

- Valentines day!
- Today it was gorgeous weather out! like a perfect day!-- we got up and had a pretty full day. We toka relaly nice and scenic walk to the Basillica and Eiffel Tower. First we walked to teh bassilica. Once we got there, we realized we needed to pay like 11 euro to get in, and it wasn't really what we expected- it was an army musuem of some sort. The only cool kind of thing was Nepolean's body is kept in there. At this point we split up, because half of us wanted tp go in, the rest didn't. So me, kel and brit headed back to a flea arket we ahd passed on the way there. We walked through the flea market, which was mostly food things. We saw ewverythign form different fruits, every kind of seafood imaginable, and dead chickens with everythign but the feathers. there were some booths with other thins. but nothing really good.

- Once we went through, we saw the rest of them heading toward us- talk about perfect timing! Next we got baguettes, and headed to the eiffel tower. We wanted to have baguette fights- passport to paris style. It was about another 10 minute walk to the eiffel tower form the flea market- it was such a pretty day though, we didn't mind at all.

- Once we got there, we took a million pictures on the grass in front of the Eiffel tower. It was a perfect sunny day, so it was wicked nice.

- Then we had our baguette fight (that we planned ahead of time). it was funny. Other people seeemed to enjoy it. lol there were so many couples there that day. I wonder how many proposals on the eiffel tower that day...

- After picture taking, we headed back to school, stopping to make a reservation at a restaurant for later that day. when we got back, we did some homework and got ready for our date later

-we got all ready and went to our dinner at Pasta Papa with all of the group of girls we hang out with.

We went out later on, after we all got out of our heels we went back out for a little bit. we went to a really crowded place, and werent having lots of fun so we headed back after maybe an hr tops. It was a great Valentines day though.

will fill in....

Friday February 13th, 2009

- Today at night we went out to this australian bar- It was called Cafe Oz. It was a lot of fun!


Thursday February 12th, 2009

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no more computer

Wednesday February 11th, 2009

- Today i have to hand in my computer for a huge update- because everyone's computer was getting an update of security stuff-- what i didn't know was that they'd have my computer for a whole week instead of the next day like they said.

- We had theoogy today from 1:30-5:15 where we watched a movie called, "annie hall". it was an okay movie. We are supposed to then write an essay about references to judaism in the movie.

We went out later that night.

preschool

Tuesday February 10th, 2009

-Today i woke up early so i could go in Brittany's place to her service. I went to the preschool with Kelly for about an hour to help out. We are supposed to be helping them out wiht english. The kids were so cute. There was only 1 little girl who spoke some english- because her parents speak both french and english at home- but they all were so cute- they would just tell us stories in french and kept on going on and on. We just smiled and nodded because we had no clue what they were saying. I wihs i could have done that each week, because that would have been a lot of fun.

-After preschool we wlake dback, getting a sandwhich for lunch.

-After lunch we had philosophy class until 5:15.

some more

Monday February 9th, 2009

-Philosophy class from 8:45-12:30

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nothign?

Sunday Feb. 8th, 2009

I have to update this later, because i have nothign really written for this day.

Snow?

Saturday February 7th, 2009

-Today we got up and decided to go the flea market again. I didn't get anythign- Kelly was manly looking for a gift for her friend. While we were walking back it started to like blizzard- it was snowing pretty bad- it felt like it came out of nowhere.

-The girls and I watched a movie that night and stayed in.

Here begins the lists....

Friday Feb. 6th, 2009

-Today we walked to breakfast in America, for the first time. the food was amazing and a great change to our weeks of French food.

- Later in the day we went to the Arc de triomphe. It was amazing- we walked up the 400 or so steps to teh top. It was an amazing view and so worth it!

-When we got to the Arc de triompe- there was the whole huge rotary that us girls tried to run across. We got aboiut half way through until a car came speeding toward us and we had to run back. As we were trying to wait for a spot to run across- a man who was in his car- laughing at us while we were trying to cross- told us there was a path for us to go underground to get to teh arch. go figures- we almost get run over, then he tells us. hah it was fun though!

- After the Arch, we we walked down a main street Champs-Elysees. We wnet into a few shops including Louis Vuitton where we could not afford anythign. we got about half way down until we decided to go back and try to go get dinner.

- We went out to the Long Hop that night.

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Catacombs

Thursday February 5th

Today was an interesting day. I had theology from 9-12:30. After class we ate lunch, and Kelly left to go to sacre-cour wiht her mom and aunt.
I went to the catacombs of paris at 2. It was so creepy. There were just piles and piles of bones linign hallways underground, for a long distance. It was far underground too. After we went through the catacombs, i walked back to school wiht Jackie. Once i got back, Jen, Kim, Brittany and I went to meet Kel and her family to the Baby Bottle place. again it wa sa lot of fun. It was a good today today!

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Musee de Orsay

Wednesday February 4th

Today was a good day! We woke up early, went down for breakfast around 8:15/ 8:30 because today we were meeting Kel's mom to go to the Orsay Museum at 9 at her hotel, about a 3-4 minute walk form campus. We had breakfast and walked to the hotel. We then walked to the bus station down the street and waited for the bus to take us to the museum!

The museum was really good- i liked it a lot letter then the Louvre. I think i liked it more, because it was smaller, so we were able to see more of it- i think all of the museum actually, and i knew more of the artists featured in the museum, like Monet, Manet, Van Gogh, etc. At the museum, we saw Jen and Kim's art class there. We didn't say hi because they were intensely concentrating on some painting. hah I really enjoyed that museum.

After the museum we went back to campus, stopping at an Italian market thing near us, and picked up some lunch. We ate lunch, but then had to go to leave Kel's mom to go to class---Theology today. In my assignment notebook, i wrote down that i needed to blog... didn't work out to well for me.

Tuesday the 3rd

Tuesday Feb 3rd

Not much happened really today. Got up, breakfast, showered, class in the afternoon... the usual. Dinner afterwards... Having class all 4 days of the week means we don't really do much during the week i guess.. We were thinking of going out tonight, but then decided against it when we didn't feel like getting ready and were really comfy in our lounging outfits hah.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Manic Monday

Monday Feb. 1st

Today felt like such an early day after the day of Disney we had yesterday. I was so tired yesterday, i didn't want to get up for class. But i had to unfortunately. The day started as usual-- Class (philosophy) until 12:30. For lunch we got sandwiches at Le Bon Marche. It is a huge gourmet and grocery food store next to a huge department store- Au Bon Marche. We got sandwiches there and ate lunch. Next we went to the Eiffel Tower. It was limited visibility because it was not such a good day out- it was foggy and slightly drizzling. It was fine though- because it was high enough for them to get an excellent view and it was cheaper for us! hah We got hot cocoas and sat looking out onto the view of Paris, and looked through the souvenier shop. On the way home, we stopped at Zara, and i found a shirt that i loved and it was an okay price- so i bought it-- shouldn't have but i did anyways! lol After that we went back, got dinner, and got ready for class the next day.

When you wish upon a star...

Sunday February 1st

Today we went to EURODISNEY!

(Will update this one later)

The Louvre

Saturday February 30th

Today was Kelly's mom's first whole day here. I tagged along with Kelly. Brittany, Kel's mom and aunt to go to some different places. Today we went to the Louvre.We woke up about 8, and had to meet her mom by 9 today. Kelly, Brit, Jen, Kim, Diana and I head out to meet up with Kelly's mom. Kelly was a little upset because Diana sort of invited herself to come along with us. Anyways, we walked to meet up with Kelly's mom and aunt. We took the subway to a part of Paris and went to a flea market. This part of town didn't really look like the best part of town, but we were fine. At the flea market there was tons of different stuff-- less souvenir things than i expected but more of clothes, shoes, and various other things. We walked by a place where they sold hats, so most of us decided we were going to get berets. We all picked out berets and went to go pay, but Kelly's mom said she would treat us all to berets. it was so nice of her. i wasn't expecting it at all. So we all put on our berets and walked around like true Parisians. After finishing walking around the flea market, Jen Kim and Diana, needed to go back to the dorm, to get their notebooks and passes for the Louve, so i headed wiht the reswt to the Louvre. We had stopped by Notre Dame first, and went inside as well. It was beautiful inside as well as outside. After that, we walked toward the Louvre passing by a food flea market on our way. We got sandwiches and kept walking. We passed by the river, and stopped to take some more pictures. When we were walking to the louvre a woman came to us and askedif we wanted a gold ring she had found on the ground near the Louvre. We are not stupid Americans- our first thought---- scheme. So Kelly's mom stared saying no no and shaking her head, the woman still chatting away-- "Look. see. real" pointing at an engraved ring. We kept saying no but she put the ring in Kelly's mom's hands and began to walk away. We all looked at eachother and was thinking like what just happened? all of the sudden,not even enough time later for us to say anythign, she came back up to us and was like " please give me food for ring.please. ring. food. please" Her mom just gave back the ring shaking her head, and we started walking again, while she was yelling, please orange, please food. please" all schemes. It was so random. While walking again, we saw a man in uniform, and a woman with a simple, flowy long dress on with a halo of flowers around her wlak, hand in hand, into a church across the street, after speaking to a driver that had stopped right by. It was so cute. It was such a pretty day too-- perfect for a wedding.

WE finally arrived to the Louvre. it was huge. We walked through it seeing famous paintings, and sculptures. We covered a lot, but not nearly the whole thing. It was a good day thought, and we saw alot. On the way back we went and got crepes, and went back to campus.