more on queima

i havent posted my pictures yet but i will people should look when i do so you can see how ridiculous it is. for the time being here's this.
http://2007.queimadasfitas.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queima_das_Fitas

queima das fitas

last thursday queima das fitas started in coimbra. quiema das fitas means burning of the ribbons and is this huge festival that is a week long and transforms my city in the partay central. it has been quite ridiculous. one of the big things that happens at queima is that all the freshman get to wear their capes for the first time-people at my school wear capes. they are called caloiros (sp?). people dont wear capes everyday but you always see people walking around in their capes with these dorky suits or skirt suits underneath them. there are these huge concerts every night across the river (which is about a 15 minute walk) and people are pretty much drunk all the time. portuguese people are very ridiculous when they are drunk. i have been to two concerts so far and they have been pretty cool. i saw rui valoso (who has been inaccurately discribed as the portuguese bruce springsteen) and da weasel (hah!) on one night and last night i saw quim barreiros. they were both pretty fun-more for the fact that everyone in the audience was super into them than the actual performaces.
queima starts with the saranada which is the very first night the freshman get to wear their capes. it is in the square in front of the old cathedral (sé velha) and there is fado (a traditional slow sad portuguese type of music). the shindig started at midnight so we headed down around 1130, knowing that it would be really crowded but thinking that we could deal. we could NOT. it was the most crowded experience of my life. at parts i could not breath at all and my fingers felt like i had wrapped string around them because people were pushing on my arms so hard that blood couldnt move. then the portuguese drunkies started passing out and people were yelling and there were some old people who kept hitting my back. it was cool though to look in front of you and see a sea of people in black capes.
yesterday was the the parade of queima which is the biggest, most ridiculous spectacle of the entire week. at my university there are faculties such as math or science or medicine etc, and each of these faculties operates pretty much independant of one another. they also each have their own color (the color that their ribbons which they will burn are). the faculdades put on this parade with 86! floats each one with the sole purpose of giving out free alcohol and food to all the people lining the streets. everyone on the floats are also drunk and pouring beer all over themselves. this is even funnier because everyone is wearing their suits that they would normally be under their capes with GET THIS top hats and canes for in the color of their faculdade! the parade lasts for six hours and in the end the entire city is covered with broken glass, beer, chips, streamers and drunk people. it was probably the most ridiculous thing i have ever been a part of.

buuuullshit!

yesterday in my geography class we were talking about how there are a lot of forest fires in the rural areas of portugal. then he said that one of the main causes for these forest fires is that people in portugal like to go on picknicks a lot and the usually bring a bottle or two of wine, ya know. and they leave these bottles of wine there because they have "no sense of civic duty" and the sun rays hit these bottles and they concentrate the rays like how magnifying glasses do and this starts fires. i think the chances of this happening is extremely slim, certrainly too slim to be the first reason he lists for thousands of hectares ( i dont understand this form of measurement) of the country side of portugal going up in flames.

RAVEN!

in my comp and con class we have to give presentations about "legends from our homeland" i though that there is probably no better legend than that of RAVEN STEALING THE SUN! so i just got out of class were i gave it and it went pretty well. i thought i would delight everyone by copy and pasting my story. it is in portuguese but i still think its funny. knock yourself out.
Raven Rouba O Sol
De acordo com a lenda do tribo dos índios do noroeste dos Estados Unidos, o tribo Haida, quando o mondo começou, nã havia nem o sol e luz. Raven, quem sempre existia, já não queria viver na escuridão.
Um dia, quando Raven estive a voar na escuridão, ele se aproximou de uma casa de um velhote quem morava com a filha dele só. Raven era muito manhoso e ele aprendeu que o velhote tinha um preciosidade muito espécial. O velhote tinha uma caixinha com todo o luz do universo. Raven decidiu roubar o luz para ele próprio.
Pensou para um tempo longo e finalamente ele descobriu um plano. Ele esperava perto do rio até a filha do velhote veio ao rio para obter água. Raven se transformou em um folha e se caiu no rio. No mesmo instante, a menina colocou sua taça na água e a folha foi na taça. A menina bebeu da taça e engolhou a folha porque ele não viu-la.
Raven foi para o estômago da menina e ele se transformou um outra vez para um humano. Raven ficou em sua estômago para um tempo breve e então a menina deu a luz a Raven na forma de um bebé. Raven cresceu muito rapido, e tão depressa como ele pôde falar, ele co meçou a pedir seu avô se ele pusesse brincar com o luz. Finalamente, o velhote permitiu-lo e trocou da caixinha uma bola de luz e atirou-lo a Raven. Enquanto a bola de luz estive na ar, Raven se transformou no pássaro. Raven apanhou a bola de luz em seu bico e voou através da janela para o céu. Deixou o bolo de luz no céu e como este é hoje temos luz no mondo.

i hate the portuguese language and people

i dont really. sometimes i just get very frustrated and thats how i feel. its been weird getting back from break and realizing how i have not very much time here but i still feel like i havent adapted that well. i can figure everythign out now and i dont do stupid shit like buying fabric softener to wash my clothes anymore but i would have a hard time describing people here other than like they all have dark brown hair and are short and can give some mean stares. and they like shopping malls. this sounds like i am having a bad time which is not true, its just frustrating sometimes.

okay, okay

spring break has been good to me.
first i went to ioannina, greece to visit steph. it took me about a day and a half to get there-leaving at 3am on saturday the 1st and arriving around noon on tuesday the 2nd. i guess it was worth it because steph and i watched little mermaid and cold mountain and i broke a glass and an empty bottle of wine. i also got to use the Internet(the spell check told me to capitalize this and i think that it is really funny) a lot. i sat next to a very cute little old greek lady on the bus to ioannina wearing the most typical little old lady clothes i have ever seen. she got really antsy (sp?) at the end of the trip and then i smelled a poopy smell and i am afraid she pooped her pants. i cant speak any greek so i couldnt help her and i felt bad. i was also tired because i had slept 4 out of 40 hours.
then steph and i took the bus back to athens and hung out there for a day and night. it was great because steph accidentally booked us our own room with a big bed and a tv and we watched some funny, random shit. we watched-2 episodes of the simpsons which i hadnt seen in forever, an episode of seinfeld which i hadnt seen forever, ben herr (sp?) which was weird and funny kinda? and awakenings which was also kinda weird but good. and we watched this greek show called spaghetti. they eat spanikopitas for breakfast in greece.
then we headed to london. i love london. it is exactly the way you picture it to be. the weird british sayings, the pubs, the big teeth, the beer-everything. i met a douche bag who said he hated muslims and i got in a fight with him bc i am studying islamic art and really like it. we saw dan radcliffe (harry potter) in a play and i we teared up and it was the best experience of my life, not only because we saw him jump around naked. hes a great actor. people in london gave my red shoes very very mean looks.
right now i am in granada staying with eric nusbaum. granada is cool. carly from portugal is here with me and its funny introducing friends. it was also funny in london when steph met carly and caleb who were there and asked if they were taking a train back to portugal.
i just started a great fantasy novel called the wheel of time. i really really like it. i am reading book one of 7, i believe, and it is called the eye of the world. its intense.

some new shit

today is my friend and apartment-mate's (?) birthday! he is turning 22. his name is nick leo. we are having a sweet ass party for him tonight and i am excited. carly and i are going to paint our faces and i am going to wear my bulls shirt. to me, life cannot get much better. we went to the store today and got a lot of stuff (booze, 2 kilos of oranges and peanuts) and we were all very excited. i also got a pack of uno for the party and uno=fun. carly and i decided to sacrifice our lingua class and clean instead.
the weather the past twoish weeks has been amazing and its so great. its been in the high 60s/low 70s and super super sunny almost everyday. we have gone to the river a lot and hung out down there and we went to the beach again last sunday. it is still very cold at night in our apartment and i still have to wear long underwear (2 on the top one on teh bottom), sweatpants and a wool sweater but its okay beacuse the days are so nice.
tomorrow carly caleb and i are going down to lisbon to meet my PARENTS! i am very excited. my brother is coming from italy on saturday night. there should be some good eating. i am a little nervous because everyone else in my family has been to lisboa except me and i feel as tho i should be the one showing htem around, not the other way. on sunday we are coming back here to coimbra and htey will stay until tuesday. here are places that i am going to take them and have little or no meaning to most of you: campus, the baixa, the river, either the jardim botanico or another garden off of the praca de republica annnddd drum role....PEDRO NUNES my old dorm! i am going to take them there so they can realize how ridiculous it is.
right now i am sitting outside in a square in front of the cathedral a block away from my house and while i may have some issues with the portuguese people-it is really really awesome here.

today in class

i just got out of my conversation and composition class. the teacher in that class is really ridiculous and you are often put on teh spot and have to answer questions which really are too simple to be answered or discussed about. but it is a class that is really focused on improving our normal, day to day, portuguese so talking is beneficial. today we were talking about stress (for the entire 2 hour class period) and she was asking what things make us stressed out. i decided that since a lot of small things make me stressed out this would be a good oportunity for my first time talking out of my own free will. i started saying how a lot of small things make me stressed out in normal activities but that it usually doesnt last for long so its okay. i said this MUCH less eloquently in portuguese and had to stop a lot to think. then she asked me what and i realized that a lot of the thigns that make me upset would sound ridiculous in front of a lot of people who dont know me, not the mention how foolish i already sounded speaking. so then i was like umm....i dont know cracks in the street (i did know how to say this so it came out more like lines in the road) and then paused a long time and said i was just superstitious. then my friends in the class started chiming in with other things. it was somewhat ridiculous but was way more amusing to me then embarrassing.

i moved!

on thursday we moved out of the dorms and into an apartment! its really really awesome because we are about a 3 minute walk from out building on campus. the apartment is very big and smells like shit. we havent found out what is causing the smell but we have tried hard. i also bought 2 birds yesterday. they are loud. last night we had people over for dinner which was fun but a little hectic because we didnt have enough plates, chairs, table space, cups, silverwear or food. we did have enough wine though.

da beach

yesterday it was a very nice day here in coimbra. it was a rare sunny day and very warm also. unfortunately on mondays we have 6 hours of class. we had a 3 hour break between our first two classes and after carly finding out that someone had taken money from her paypal account i said i would skip our next class to sit with her while she was trying to figure things out. i am a very nice friend and will make large sacrifices, such as missing class, to support people, you see. then! to our surpise we found out from caleb and lauren, who were going to class, that class was canceled! we decided to take this opportunity and go to the ocean! we decided to go to figeira de foz which is the closest city by on the beach-about an hour away. the round trip was only 3.60 euros which was awesome. we got there around 5 and stayed for the sunset. it was one of the best times ive had here and one of the best times ive had anywhere in a long time. it was just really fun and peaceful and the waves were huge and i waded in a little and got wet. i also collected lots of shells.

weird things about portugal/portugal makes me stupid

-every beverage here tastes like metal. it is seriously ridiculous. i have had numerous wines, beers, diet coke and waters that taste like metal. i also have a fear of lead poisoning and this does not make me feel better. also sometimes the food tastes metalic but people tell me it is just me who tastes this.
-we went to the store the other day and i was excited because i bought some butter. i bought butter in a box rather than in little tubs, which is how most of the butter comes, because i wanted a real stick o' butter. when i got home i realized that i had not in fact bought 4 sticks of butter but rather 20 individual servings of butter like you get at a restaurant. i laughed at myself because it is the typical "im a foreigner and dont really understand what is going on" thing to do. then i decided to put my little container of butter in the microwave because, as some of you know, i do not like hard butter. i put it in and immediately it started sparking because i neglected to remove the foil cover. i am generally very careful about not microwaving metal because i find the effect scary but, honestly, because i am in a foreign country-i. am. stupid.
-some other funny foreigner things we have done here: bought fabric softener and washed our clothes with it thinking it was soap; tried to see if we could rent rooms (to live in for the rest of the year) at a hotel; played cards for 2 hours at a bar only to find it is illegal to play cards in public areas in portugal; walked into mens bathrooms countless times; stolen someones cart at the supermarket in front of them; etc. dont even get me started on some of the grammatical mistakes i have made that are embarrassing. i suppose it is humbling and good for me-but for now it is mainly embarrassing and amusing.

porto

this weekend we had monday and tuesday off for carnaval so carly lauren and i went to porto. porto is a very cool city and we wish that we went to school there rather than in coimbra. the first night we got tehre we went down to the river where there are a lot of restaurants. they are all pretty much the same because the only food they really have here is fish potatoes and omelets for us vegetarians. the man at the restaurant was really friendly and was joking around with us (and i think about us). he then gave us this card for a bar we he wanted us to go after dinner. he then took us there himself and told the bar owner we were his friends. the owner (a portuguese guy who was about our age) told us that he wanted his bar to feel liek we were in our own homes. unfortunately the bar did not really achieve this goal-probably because of the stobe lights, techno and metal seats. the other other people in the bar were the owners brother, a family with a small child and a college student doing their homework. he then told us "because we were friends with the owner of the restaurant" our minimum would only be 3 euros. we realized we had been duped. then the guy sat down at our tabele and began to play gyspy songs on his guitar. it was very awkward, especially when he told us how he wrote one song about his girlfriend who died 6 years ago. all this time there was music going on in the background that he was yelling at his brother to turn down. we would have rather listened to the other music. then they whipped out the karaoke machine-which the portuguese love-and began to sing enrique iglesias and do the electric slide.
after that we went to another bar. it was weird and they were playing the island on tv. we took a cab home from there with the most asshole cab driver ever. he was whipping around corners and going super fast. carly asked, in perfectly understandable portuguese, what kind of music was playing on the radio because she liked it and he ignored her. then he was driving so fast that she had to grab onto his seat and he yelled at her for shaking his seat too much. when we got out of the cab he thought i had slammed my door and he got out and was yelling at us from the street.
all in all it was a very good trip with a lot of fun/weird portuguese things.

valentines day

so last night me and a big group of people decided to go out to dinner because we are all single and wanted to do something. we went to this indian restaurant where we had made reservations for 7:45. we got there a little late but then they made us wait until 8:30 to be seated. we were all very hungy at this point. then we ordered. a little over an hour later we got our food-now very very hungry and kinda pissed off because we had been completely ignored and they forgot to bring us our bread. right as the food arrived the cieling above caleb, who was sitting at the end of the table next to me, began the leak a lot. the server continued to bring out our food and only said oh it is raining in here in portuguese. of course, it was not raining outside and the celing of the restaurant was not the roof of the building so it was probably a bath or toilet overflowing. caleb stood up and got his food and moved over and was standing somewhere else were it wasnt raining. then the ceiling there started "raining" also and harder where it had been before getting me and carly and elsa wet as well. our plates were covered in water and our wine classes were half wine half water. still no one said anything so we just got our stuff and moved to a different tabel while the rest of the restaurant gave us very cold stares-probably for making a "big deal" of it. right as it started raining a baby started crying. there was also a phone that had been continuously ringing to the tune of a nutcracker song. we went over to the other table and just laughed a lot because it was so ridiculous. we contemplated just walking out and refusing to pay but we knew it would kinda screw over the other people at we were with. after that we thought some gelato was in order. then we danced the night and our cares away at via da latina. all in all an okay valentines day.

classes

i started classes yesterday. i had six hours of class yesterday and six hours today. it is a lot. classes are all in portuguese which is rough, as is the fact that we are being thrown into a already existing class and dont understand the language/subject matter/what the teacher wants of us. that said its not too bad. its funny taking classes with all my friends and us having the same schedules. my comp/con teacher is supposed to be very mean but she seemed nice to us. also my history teacher reminds me of one of those very tall skinny bugs. tonight i am going to go out with some brasilians and italians-should be pretty fun even tho i have 9 o'clock class tomorrow.

some things

1) we found out that we can get kicked out of our dorms for being too messy. i find this to be a very ironic thing to happen to me because i am actually the messiest person i know. by too messy i mean not making our bed everyday and having some clothes on the ground and having our desks not orgnaized. hopefully this will be a good thing for me? they say that they do that people are dorms are property of the EU and it is disrespectful.
2) today we were sitting watching some tv before we went out. then we walked outside and one of the dorm ladies came out after us and calling us. we were all afraid we had done something wrong and didnt clean up the kitchen or something. it turns out there was a photographer coming and she wanted us to sit and watch tv, like we had been, and he would take pictures of us for the a brochure. its funny because we are planning on moving out as soon as we can.
3) all my roommate does-other than go to school-is watch pride and prejudice or either of the bridget jones.

now im in portugal

now i am in portugal. things are going pretty well. the two other girls who came for second semester are very fun and we have fun together. last night we went dancing to celebrate the rest of the 6 people on the program finishing finals. it was pretty fun and we stayed out late. then when we got home i had nutella and cereal. we just got into the center of town because my dorm is way out in the middle of nowhere and the cantina we were going to go for lunch (at 4:30) was closed so we went to pizza hut. it was a bit shameful although everyone says that pizza hut is way better here than it is in the us. we blamed us being late on the fact that the buses here are ridiculous and it took us 45 minutes to get into town bc we went on some completely roundabout way. everything we have tried to do here has been kinda like that. we are unable to do anything directly but its funny. we have had a lot of "well now we know for next time" we live next door to a HUGE mall which is really bizarre. we have gone tehre at least twice a day for the past few days trying to get normal things like phones/passport pics/groceries etc. its kinda ridiculous. my roommate is chinese and doesnt speak portuguese/have any belongings. it was kinda freaky at first but then i walked in and she was watching BBC pride and prejudice and i freaked out with excitement. i think things will be okay. we are planning on moving out of the dorms soon bc we are so far away.
the people on my program are really awesome and really into learning portuguese and being part of the culture. it should be fun.

i mean i like watching arrested development-not i like watched it.

for molly

i love blogs, blogs are great. i also like barcelona a lot and i like watched arrested development while in barcelona. i have run into lots of different high school people which is really really weird. last night i went to a bar call top secret where its really like this old apartment and they dont let some people in. they let us in bc there were 4 girls with us but they didnt let in the 5 boys who came aheard of us. it was pointless though bc there were only like 5 people in the bar.
happy groundhog day and early spring to one and all.
yesterday casey and i saw a man who was the stereotypical drug addict and it was funny/sad. he was scratching his face and muttering to himself.
i think the only food that is served in barcelona are sandwiches which is a-okay with me.

thanks a lot, hoteltrain

today i arrived in barcelona. i took the train here from milan after being in florence to see my brothers new apartment. florence was cool. my brothers apartment is very bizarre because it looks like some swinging gay bachelor pad but everything in it is really cheap and just looks like it's expensive. because of this matt and his roommates started calling it the model home from arrested-which is very fitting.
when i was walking out of an internet cafe in florence i saw maddy romano - a friend from highschool- on the street. it was really really weird and exactly what i heard of happening to people when they were abroad. it was even weirder when she told me she was about to meet up with evan witty-another good friend from highschool. then later that night i met up with kyle (bain) at matt's friends apartment. it was just weird but really cool.
i took the hoteltrain from milan last night and got in this morning. matt had told me a lot of good things about the train. because if this i was a little upset when the i entered it into the SMALLEST hallway i have ever seen. i had my huge backpacking backpack, a big duffel and a small duffel. i couldnt turn around int he hallway and i had to do like 3-point turns by going in the a room partially. also there was no place to put our bags so they were just piled int he middle of the room. my two roomates were lus, a 50-60 yr old peruvian woman who spoke spanish and a tiny bit of english and tamara, a 50-60 yr old russian woman who spoke only russian. it was a little awkard at first but lus was really nice. the awkwarness got to a high point at the french border when tamara didnt have a passport and was detained by the french police and taken off the fucking train!! i feel bad for her but honestly, i dont know how she even go into italy without a passport. this morning lus said almost nothing to me which made me think that i probably made my noise and she was bitter. oh well.
barcelona is really really sweet. today we went to this awesome park with palm trees and a big fountain. brett and maybe beckley get here on friday which im pumped for. also i just ran into a girl who i played soccer with when i was younger.
well i am in caseys school using the internet and i feel like im starting to get some looks. peace out.
----the spell check only works in spanish so i appologize(sp?) for spelling.

Schneechaos in germany

to begin, i will explain my title. then i will explain the title of my last post which evidently caused some confusion. schnee is snow in german. the title of the main story on the news one night was SCHNEECHAOS IN EUROPA. it was really funny and german and matt and i frequently remarked on all the schneechaos, which there was a lot of. as for my last post-bog means hi/bye in croation. it might be pronounced chog-the book said b was pronounced ch but with other words we didnt hear people doing that. anyway, matt and i liked to say CHOG a lot which eventually evolved into us saying CHOG CHOG CHOG (liek chug chug chug). we were saying it while sitting outside a grocery store one day and then laughed about how funny it would be in america to hear some asshole croatian kids chanting HI HI HI (or BYE BYE BYE-n sync HEYOOO).
anyway, i just got back to bologna from munich. munich was really cool and cold (hence the schneechaos). we first took a 10 hour bus ride from dubrovnik to zagreb, croatia. it sucked bc the heaters were so hot that we couldnt put our feet on the floor and it was 10 hours with like 4 pee stops which is hard for me and my brother. then we took a train from zagreb to munich which was fun and pretty. we had a lot of fun while going through austria by doing arnold impressions and decided that the country should have signs at the borders that read "HASTA LA VISTA BABY (but we know you'll be back)" ahahahahha. it makes me laugh. munich was really awesome though. we drank a lot of beer and i ate so much cheese spatzle and felt sick every time. everything in the city is really big which was a little creepy at times. we went to the hofbrauhaus - the biggest/most famous beer hall in munich - for lunch one day. when we sat down this girl came up to us and asked if we were tourists and we said yes. she then said she was from german international tv and wanted to know if we would eat some dishes the chef had specially prepared and answer some questions about them on tv. they brought us our food and we ate it and had to give a thumbs up or thumbs down and then talk about it on camera. it was bizarre. then she asked me about how i had found it being a vegetarian in munich. then they brought is BEER ICE CREAM. it didnt really taste like beer though. they paid for our meal and we got a free liter of beer and basically its cool bc i was on tv. it is some weirdo channel that doesnt play in germany only in other countries but i dont know what countries would want to know about german food. free food and beer and my beautiful face on TV=pretty great and weird.
yesterday we went to see this "cinderella castle". we didnt end up going into it because the tour was an hour from when we got there and it was very very cold. we/i did, on other hand, miss a train bc we were just standing in front of it confused, through out my garbage in basket for umbrellas, miss our bus, and were surrounded by literally hundreds of korean tourists the whole day. it was a day where everything kinda went wrong but was really funny. AND on one of the bus rides the best thing ever happened. there were these grade school kids behind us and they were listening to their ipod very loudly so that we could hear it and guess what song they were listening to?!!?? SCOTTY DOESNT KNOW!!! FROM EUROTRIP. it was the most perfect thing that has every happened to me in my life.
----please look over the things i have made in caps-it is a funny combination.

bog from croatia!

right now i am dubrovnik croatia and it is really really amazing. when i thought eastern europe i usually thought something somewhat similar to bratislava in eurotrip. it is actually in the 60s and sunny (which i guess is unusual) and there are palm trees, really pretty beaches and water, or voda in croatian.
to go back a few days... i landed in bologna and was going to go right to the ferry to come here but my brother and his girlfriend's dog died. it was really sad because she was a great dog and really important to them. because of that we stayed in bologna longer which was really nice actually. i got some quality awkward moments with kelly's roommates who don't speak english. the common words between us were okay, wow and uh-oh. we did watch three hours of grande fratello(big brother) which was entertaining. matt and i went to ravenna one day and i got to see these mosaics that i have wanted to see for a long time. i almost got teary eyed which was embarrassing.
then we took the ferry from ancona (italy) to split (croatia). it was cool. the guy at the restaurant seemed to be pissed off and confused why i didnt eat meat, no not even squid. he said "no meat? not even squid? how old are you?" our room was way down in the depths of the boat and i couldnt help but think of leo, the italian guy and those two confused and angry germans from titanic. luckily my fate was better than theirs.
then we got to croatia. we took a 4.5 hour buss ride to dubrovnik. when we got off we were assaulted by people trying to have us stay at their hotels. one guy even followed us in his car and got out in an intersection to try to entice us. lots of great 80's music. as my brother said its cool that once you cross the iron curtain its all 80's.
in bologna i got the coolest hat EVER. its turquoise and white and puffz and a bomber hat with a small brim. im excited for germany to be cold so i can rock it.

there are numerous typos in my last post. i mean olive drab not drap. im sorry to offend.

the airport

right now i am in the frankfurt airport. it is very big and i just walked a lot and now i am sweaty. its a little embarrassing bc there are two german businessmen next to me. i have a huge grudge against this airport. i have never been here without having to walk up and down stair unnecessarily. one time i was stuck here overnight by myself. they gave me a hotel room and i got a free dinner and was so distraught that i ordered tomato soup and a bloody mary. evidently tomato in liquid form is comfort food to me. everyone should watch the movie the last king of scotland. it is about uganda and mr tumnus from narnia is in it!!!!! hes the main character, hes scottish, he's got the bod of dan radcliffe and i love him. its very intense and i yelled a little when they kept making announcements about landing at the end of the movie. by yelling i mean i made a semi-loud noise, i didnt yell at anyone. the man next to me was flirting with the flight attendants.
right now this websit is in german and instead of saying new post it says neuer post. something i like about this airport is the sweaters that ze germans who work her wear. they are olive drap, ribbed sweaters with epaulettes. excellent.
next i am going to bologna. i am meeting my bro there and then we are going to ancona (italy) to take a ferry to croatia. its very crazy to think about. i am excited although it doesnt seem real.
PEACE OUT

not traveling but almost...

i realize that i am not officially traveling yet but i have traveled from seattle so it kinda counts. right now it's half time during the bears vs. seahawks game. going pretty well. anyway, i think its funny bc since i am not in seattle watching with friends and im not watching with any friends here i am forcing my parents to fill the void. i am making each of my parents drink at least 2 miller lights that me laura and becky bought with no intention of drinking and that my dad said i should drink before i leave. i am using the "you'll miss me making you drink miller light when im gone" excuse that i used in seattle to make people do things with much success. i put the beers in a portable cooler with a small amount of ice (all that my mom would let me take from the freezer) and brought them upstairs with some chips. i think my dad is embarrassed.
i also bought noodle a cat nip banana and rainbow today. i love to embarrass him.

My first blog

This will be my blog when i am traveling and when i am in portugal. i hope i use it and that people look at it, please.
i love blog.