Paddy's Palace

We are currently in the computer lab (Wireless is down YET again) and we are planning our trip after London. We are staying one more night in London so we can see Parade at the Donmar Warehouse. The next morning we are going to wake up early. Fly to Dublin for $0.01. After taxes and fees its about $30 each. But the best part of it all is we are going to meet up with Lily and Michelle there and we are all staying in a hostel called "Paddy's Palace." We literally picked it just because we couldn't stop laughing at the name. After Dublin we are flying over to Scotland and staying there for a few nights before coming back to Well. It is the most stressful thing ever, but I am excited. Oh well, I live in a Castle.

Paddy's Palace

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I would just like start off by saying I HATE SAM SIMAHK! My roommate Sam, who sleeps with his head literally about a foot away from my head was sick, and I think he has now given it to me. I went to bed last night with a scratchy throat and very stuffy and because of that it took me forever to fall asleep. Of course this is the only day that I have a sort of early class. After not getting to sleep until about 3, I had to wake up at 9 to go to class at 10. My alarm went off this morning and I thought it was just part of my dream until Sam rolled over and told me my alarm was going off. I felt really bad for waking everyone up. I took a quick shower and threw on a sweatshirt and went downstairs to go to class. I really really enjoy not having to ever leave my building to go to class. I feel like it will be really nice once it gets cold out.

Today I had The World Since 1914. I have heard from a few people that this is the worst class anyone could ever possibly take at Emerson. But I don't think it will be that bad. The professor's name is Ralph Troff. He is from Germany about 30 minutes from here. He seems really smart and probably is the most fluent in English out of all my professors so far. The class, as it says is everything since 1914 (The start of WWI). So basically it is WWI, WWII and the cold war. Everything up to the fall of the Berlin Wall. I am really excited to take a history class taught from another point of view. Especially a German point of view. I feel like in America the Germans are always made out to be evil. Even today he just gave a brief overview of the stuff we are going to be learning, and besides making Hitler out to be insane, every other time he talked about Germany or the German people, it was in a positive light. We finished off the class watching a documentary narrated by Dame Judi Dench. I still think it is going to be a hard class and it will be sort of obnoxious sometimes, but I think I might actually walk away with something cool from it.

Dinner tonight was fried fish. When I say fried fish, I mean fish rings. Literally I thought they were onion rings, but instead they had fish in them. They didn't taste bad because they were deep fried in so much batter, but now I kind of feel sick. Once again a lot of people are going out tonight, but I think I need to stay home and get some sleep. Blake and I are going to finish planning some stuff after he is done from class and after that I am going to pass out.

This weekend we only have two days because we have a make up class on Friday night. Becasue of that we are going to just stay around here this weekend, and just do day trips to Venlo and Nijmegen (The two closest cities). Then next weekend we are going activate our Eurail pass and take a trip to Austria. We booked a hostil that over looks the city, has a full breakfast for free, and we also got a private double bed, so we wont be with any creepy people for the first experience in a hostile. We also made a reservation for the Sound of Music tour. It is sort of a rip off because it is 35 euros for a 4 hour tour, but it is something that both of us really really want to do and it will be fun I hope. You go to a bunch of different locations they filmed the movie at including the gazeebo in the backyard where they walk into to sing 16 Going on 17, the lake the kids fall in, the Do Re Mi park and a section of the alps. If you want to see more about it go here



Anyone who is reading this, send me a quick email, facebook message, IM, whatever and let me know what is going on and how everything is back in the US. I really miss everyone and wish I could talk to you guys more. Oh well, I live in a castle.