So I’ve been in Europe over a month and a half so far and I
still sometimes have to remind myself that I am in fact here. I made it one of my main goals when I came
here to take advantage of as many opportunities as possible and to travel as
many places throughout Europe that I can manage. Luckily, there are a couple of other girls in
my house, from Canada, who seem to have made the same commitment. A lot of the European kids think we’re crazy
with all of the stuff that we’re planning/ have planned, but I don’t think they
get it. They get to live here their whole lives and can therefore travel
whenever. We have come so far and paid
so much to be here that we are taking advantage of every extra bit of time that
we have to travel somewhere cool.
Within a week we booked tickets to Edinburgh, Scotland;
Berlin, Germany; London, England; Paris, France/somewhere in Spain TBD; and the
Czech Republic. Plans are also in place
to look into going to Rome or somewhere else in that region. We know it’s crazy, but how can we not do it? We took our first trip this weekend to
Edinburgh for three and a half days, and, while I’d love to talk about it now,
I’m leaving in a few minutes, after being home for three days, to go to
Berlin. There’ll be posts on those two
places early next week. I’ve had to
really commit myself to not procrastinating and getting stuff done early and
during the week, but I’m not about to miss out on the chances of a lifetime.
That being said, it doesn’t seem like I’m really living real
life right now. I mean, who gets to say “Oh,
I’m just going to Scotland for the weekend, no big deal.” But it is a big deal; I’m going to Scotland
for the weekend!!! I have to say, I loved Scotland so much and don’t know how
any other trip can top it. Then I have
to stop and remind myself that all of these places that we’re going are sure to
be awesome. To think I was only planning
to come to Europe for a couple of weeks during the summer. It’s funny, but when we were in Edinburgh, we
kept referring to Groningen, the Netherlands as our home. It’s such a great place to live. I don’t think it’s much of a tourist
destination, but it makes an awesome home.
There aren’t a bunch of tourist attractions like in other cities,
Amsterdam for example, but it’s such a quaint little city. (Although that might
be an oxymoron) Here’s a look at a
couple of pictures from yesterday here…
There are going to be blogs and pictures soon to come about
the past few weekends, but to give you a taste of what’s to come, think kilts,
haggis, and castles. (And whatever Berlin might have in store for
us) I hear there’s a wall there.
