I have quickly been losing interest and motivation in writing to you all this blog. Over the past month I have been travelling lightly both with API and friends.
A few weeks ago API brought us through East Co. Clare and through Bunratty Castle. It was a pretty cold day and overall it was a nice experience. Wish we could have had longer than an hour at the castle, but we had a full day planned. We had lunch across the street and I got the most amazing brownie sundae! So good...Afterwards we were brought to an old cemetery with a church/ruins. By then it was EXTREMELY cold out and everyone was kind of miserable. We drove back to Menlo at the end of the day and I went straight to bed.
2 weeks ago, myself and some friends went to Edinburgh Scotland for a short weekend. We took the bus to Dublin and then a flight across the pond. It took almost the whole day to get to our hostel. The hostel was nice, kind of small but met some great people. We did 2 ghost tours both nights. First one we went underground through endinburgh's underground city where the poor lived. The lights went out and a man dressed in costume jumped out at us, I screamed and ran away. The 2nd night, we went through a graveyard tour and went through a hill where over a 1000 bodies are buried in unmarked pile-graves. GROSS! We then went into a tomb where supposedly a poltergeist lives (our friend had unexplainable scratches on her!) Of course, another person dressed in costume jumped out at us and yes, I screamed again!
During the day in Scotland we walked around and saw the sites, where JKRowling wrote her first harry potter book. We went to the museum and walked through edinburgh castle; such a cool place! The last day was filled with travelling back to galway, where I of course went to bed! Such a fun/tiring/adventure weekend! Wish we could have stayed longer and done the loch ness/highlands tours.
All in all the time here has been flying! We haven't been able to book anymore out of the country trips because hostel and airline prices shot up. It was going to be too stressful to fly around and plan things to do anyways.
Next weekend Cait and I are going to Cork for the weekend. We're taking a bus there and spending the day sight-seeing. The next day we booked a tourbus to take us through the surrounding area and to the Blarney Castle where we can kiss the stone for luck! The weekend after Cork we're looking at going to northern ireland to Belfast and staying in the same hostel company and doing another tourbus through them as well!
See everyone a 4 weeks!! Just in time for Christmas =]
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Friday, November 5, 2010
Oh the possibilites..
As I am looking at the calender looking at the weeks pass me by- counting down the days, hours, minutes until I am back home in Fitchburg I have realized it is a bitter-sweet ending. Sweet that I will see friends, family and Rollie-bear but bitter in the sense that a semester is not enough time to accomplish all that Europe has to offer a 21 year old single free-bird.
As I look at cheap flights to London, Paris, Amsterdam, Prague..the list goes on...I wonder if I will be able to see everything I had planned to see since day one of being accepted to this program. Nope, I didn't get to see nearly a tenth of what I had hoped to conquer!! The thought of being a college dropout and just filling my backpack and running seems more and more enticing with each day that passes. You can't get that in the States, the different languages and cultures that are so interesting and bright and colorful (no, Main st does NOT count by any means).
Is the business world really the right step for me? Should I reconsider my future and just throw away the last 3 years of my life on a world of adventure and vine swinging in the Amazon? Wouldn't climbing mountains in Chile or biking through China be more life rewarding than sitting behind a desk convincing some corporate tight pants where to spend their money? I thought I loved the idea of money and nice cars and a barn full of horses some day, but is that all really necessary?
I hate trying to prove to Professors that I am smarter than I seem by acing tests and writing bullshit papers that won't ever help me in the corporate world, heck I'm a hands-on person! What was I thinking choosing business over something cool like Adventure Education or Archaeology or a friggin CIA agent? These were all dreams I had and then somehow I ended up with Marketing?! What on Earth was I thinking...Although I do love winning and business is the only way to get ahead these days.
The short adventures I've had throughout my short time in Ireland has only given my the Travel Bug, and boy did it bite me hard! I am going to go crazy when I finally get home and realize there's no where for me to go except the 'Burg or occasional weekend in Plymouth. These short weekends away in different worlds have only been teasers, I haven't gotten the full taste of the world yet and I don't want to stop until I've seen it all.
I was blessed to have been able to partake in this adventure Ireland had to offer, while contributing to my education. But I have to put some light on my family, friends and professors who helped me and encouraged me to push through the paperwork and endless phone calls to get to this wonderful country. So THANKS everyone, you all know who you are.
I suppose this life will always be bitter-sweet; Sweet that I'll always have a place to call home and return to and Bitter that I'll have to leave my 2nd home with a return date: unknown.
As I look at cheap flights to London, Paris, Amsterdam, Prague..the list goes on...I wonder if I will be able to see everything I had planned to see since day one of being accepted to this program. Nope, I didn't get to see nearly a tenth of what I had hoped to conquer!! The thought of being a college dropout and just filling my backpack and running seems more and more enticing with each day that passes. You can't get that in the States, the different languages and cultures that are so interesting and bright and colorful (no, Main st does NOT count by any means).
Is the business world really the right step for me? Should I reconsider my future and just throw away the last 3 years of my life on a world of adventure and vine swinging in the Amazon? Wouldn't climbing mountains in Chile or biking through China be more life rewarding than sitting behind a desk convincing some corporate tight pants where to spend their money? I thought I loved the idea of money and nice cars and a barn full of horses some day, but is that all really necessary?
I hate trying to prove to Professors that I am smarter than I seem by acing tests and writing bullshit papers that won't ever help me in the corporate world, heck I'm a hands-on person! What was I thinking choosing business over something cool like Adventure Education or Archaeology or a friggin CIA agent? These were all dreams I had and then somehow I ended up with Marketing?! What on Earth was I thinking...Although I do love winning and business is the only way to get ahead these days.
The short adventures I've had throughout my short time in Ireland has only given my the Travel Bug, and boy did it bite me hard! I am going to go crazy when I finally get home and realize there's no where for me to go except the 'Burg or occasional weekend in Plymouth. These short weekends away in different worlds have only been teasers, I haven't gotten the full taste of the world yet and I don't want to stop until I've seen it all.
I was blessed to have been able to partake in this adventure Ireland had to offer, while contributing to my education. But I have to put some light on my family, friends and professors who helped me and encouraged me to push through the paperwork and endless phone calls to get to this wonderful country. So THANKS everyone, you all know who you are.
I suppose this life will always be bitter-sweet; Sweet that I'll always have a place to call home and return to and Bitter that I'll have to leave my 2nd home with a return date: unknown.
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