Going Home?

So back in December...5 of the 6 other fancy friends...had to leave and return to SMC...(the fancy friends, also known as the fancies, are a group of girls...who "stole" me from another group...and they are fabulous and other girls were jealous...lame i know...but hey im fancy now) anyways...the fancy friends are grand friends at that...and they had to return to the states...i was planning on remaining in Ireland over the holidays but less then a week before i was offered to fly home...and at the time i was like hell yea...but none of us expected me leaving before them...so that was really weird...kristy who has become my best friend...probably in the history of the world...and that is not an exaggeration balled her eyes out when she thought i left...so i mauled her on her bed...we all stayed up all night...but at the end it was only kristy nikki and i together...it was hard leaving...i didnt like it...it was weird...i never was home sick or anything being in Ireland but i thought it would be cool to go home and see my mom obviously for the holidays and see keewee...cause i totally missed her alot...but i was home for about 2 days and i missed Ireland...i was going insane...but that may be because i was sick...and probably had a 103 fever then as well and was probably boardering deliriousness...but the whole "commercial situation" that is mishawaka between grape and main...its disgusting...i cant stand it all there anymore...looking back i think its weird...i feel like when i visited china that the pass of life and everything there is more similar to the lifestyle back home then it is in ireland...it so easy going and mellow here...(a pain in the ass though to get around at times) but i dont know...i missed Ireland a lot...and its making me dread thinking about leaving...cause i know i will be come manicly depressed...but im going to stay busy...but yeaa...thats all i can really remember...i was sick the whole time...so i didnt really get to see anyone...so what was the point of going home? (and i got sick on the plane home...damn snotty nosed kids...what use are they?) but its weird...im not so much home sick...or miss people that much cause i do talk to them...but i miss the people ive experienced Ireland with the most...its weird...but i love them and miss them like a fat kid on a diet misses chocolate cake...

Other Computer...

so now that i have my other computer...ill catch you up on life...its been...interesting...

BUSTED.

So its been sometime since Ive done this. My computer shat itself so i havent been able to do anything...literally...Im going insane...and I may have lost all my pictures I dont know yet...I had to restore my computer so I lost everything...I tried to save as much as I could...perhaps Ill have this up and running again soon. The new girls are here and rugby started up again...and school started back up again last monday...(I went to one class...but its ok Im a genius haha) but yea...once my computer is done being completely unproductive...like seriously...a rock and chisel are definitely more effective. anyways...hopefully this will be up soon...sorry its been so long.

Slainte

DAMN...AMSTERDAM

Amsterdam...is odd...whatever you think it is...yeaaaa...thats there...but you dont see it at all unless youre like heyyyyy RED LIGHTS!...its actually the coolest city...our hostel was in like a residential area and we were by the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijkmuseum...


yea...you know the RIjkmuseum...the one with the Damien Hirst exhibit "For The Love Of God"...THAT I DIDNT SEE!!!...I mean come on who doesnt want to see a human skull covered in diamonds?!...EPIC FAIL!...but I did drink some Heineken...at the factory...(yea...note diamond skull on side of museum...about shat myself...really I was sooooo mad we didnt go I couldve punched a baby....[not that I ever would thats horrible])

Old advertisement sign for Heineken..which is hanging in my room too..and reminds me of Tegan and Sara...which is always good...since I love them...but anyways...I didnt make it to the Van Gogh museum either...I was full of epic fails this trip...I did have a rather delicious waffle though...oh and the street graffiti was really cool! and was everywhere...

I also wrote as I walked one night...which was a bizarre night...cause we were in Amsterdam...like walking by a cop...and totally not seeing the German shepherd that was with him and almost running into the dog and thinking it was going to rip my leg off...and having bottles of rum jingling in my bag...yea...and the cheese puffs...I hate cheese puffs...space cakes though?...are delicious!...and that night I wrote as I walked...so dont know what I was writing...you cant really read it...and then there is "SMGL" at the top of the page...and it has nothing to do with Shmeegol or whatever the hell from Lord of the Rings...
(oh Amsterdam...how I miss you...)

THE LOUVRE!!!!!!!!!!!

Im aware that my pictures are sub pare...my camera is kinda broken (dont drop things down the great wall of China)...so you make do...anyways...can we talk about the Louvre...and how its hardly even arguable the best art museum in the world...and in no way should be compared to creme brulee! thats just effing stupid...BUT! if by chance you have an insanely good creme brulee you could be like "dammmmn son this creme brulee is the Louvre!" (cause obviously if you were going to have creme brulee youd also talk like that)...but whatever...Im sorry when youre given the chance to be in the Louvre for 4 hours for free...Im damn sure Id take advantage of it...(I mean come on...I did) but whatever...The amount of paintings and the size of them was crazy...and lets talk about the Mona Lisa...

Everyone I talked to who has been to Paris complained about the size of the Mona Lisa (granted these werent art majors maybe that has something to do with it) but whatever...They said that it was so small and less than exciting and whatever...but Its a portrait...and portraits arent huge unless its depicting a huge scene...but it was exactly what I expected...actually a tad bit bigger so I was more than excited to see it...but I dont really care its the Mona Lisa...I care its Da Vinci though...I did find it weird that they let people take flash pictures...I only took one inside the Louvre and that was of the Mona Lisa...cause my camera is retarded the flash wont turn off so I dont wanna speed up the decay of the paintings or whatever...(I care unlike the typical tourist with 50 billion cameras around their necks looking like tools) but whatever...
The Louvre was great...I spent time there was Casey (who as you may or may not know loves American food and giants [particularly from causeways]...*RAWR*)...and as we were leaving met up with Nikki and Julie and had some starbucks...cause it was damn cold...
The Louvre was so awesome we decided to throw it in to everyday conversations...for example..."I louvred those puppies"...that does not work...BUT after a great night out with friends..."Hey guys...last night was the louvre!" <-Perfect example right there...or check the creme brulee reference above (UGH!)...good times had in Paris...I <3 the Louvre.

HELLLLLLLO PARIS!

Let's be honest...I was least excited to go to Paris...and I loved it the most. I would SOOOO go back right now. The musicians on the metros...though annoying were really cool...even Megan falling on the metro was funny...sad...but funny...the Palace of Versailles was the first place we went...CRAZY! and the art there by Jeff Koonz...really? why?...but whatever...it was crazy...the mirror room where the Treaty of Versailles was signed...and it was pretty cool to go there after we went to the Battle of the Boyne so I already knew a bit about King Louis XIV so that was pretty cool...kinda think he was a prick...but that's just be...you know that divine right crap...whatevs...we walked around Paris for a bit and saw huge important buildings...on our way to the Arc de Triomphe.The Arc is to honor all those who fought for France especially during the Napoleonic Wars, and also under the Arc there is the grave of the unknown soldier from WW1. AFter we left the Arc we strolled over to the Eiffel Tower...got interviewed by CBS no big deal...oh right and it was snowing...it melted right away even before it hit the ground...but needless to say we were not dressed for the weather...and from the Eiffel Tower we went to the Notre Dame de Paris. Which I dont know if you're aware...is really really cool...
The excessive detail they put into everything in these churches is insane...and I found it all that a lot of the alters in Paris had different images other then Jesus on the cross in the back...odd...but outside of Notre Dame is when Linda Lou called and we chatted about how i was sick and that I sounded like death...but totally made my day anyways...we walked around a bit going to a few different churches and then we went to the Pompidou...yeppp...the Pompidou...See?...Anyways...after that we ended up at Les Invalides...which was Louis the XIV as a military museum...and its where Napoleon's Tomb is now...Les Invalides also has a pretty sweet golden dome you can see all around Paris...not really...and Im just gonna say...ND's dome is shinier...but then again...it was raining when we were there...but hey it rains in South Bend too...and let's be honest...we were in Paris...and no visit is complete with out visiting THE Moulin Rouge...yep...anticlimactic...but hey...have I seen the whole movie?...nope...will I? nope...do I know Nicole Kidman dies?...yea...so why watch it?...cause its a great movie...whatevs...Yea Paris is grand...the croissants are to die for! I fell in love with them and baguettes and hot chocolate...yummm...our hostel was also really cute in the residential district so we were like in a small neighborhood and there was tiny markets and bread shops...and chocolate places...and of course a ton of places to get wine...but we stuck to our fanta and vodka since we werent technically allowed to have alcohol in the hostel...we win...especially with our nutella, peanut butter, banana, and pretzel sandwiches...yummmm haha it was actually so gross...but delicious at the same time...but lets be honest...we havent gotten to the best part of Paris...

NO MORE PIGEONS!

Venice...ummm is really pretty...its sinking...a huge tourist trap...and there's really no point in going unless you want to be uber touristy and or are obsessed with churches...the churches are beautiful and vary like crazy...some don't even look like churches on the outside...and the water like bus system...is less then exciting and ridiculously hard at night cause you never know where you are going between the islands...and the gondola rides?...yea pretty much the lamest thing of my life...but I guess Im glad i did it to be cliche... but whatevs...San Marco's Basilica was really really cool...my favorite place for sure...the detailing of the building on the inside and out was ridiculous...I loved it...and the public square...really why is there so many pigeons? I thought I was going to get pooped on constantly...NOT COOL!...
are we in Paris yet?