[music closer - travis]
it's 2 am and i can't sleep.
i've been roaming the internet and found a new guilty pleasure.
(and temporary deterance from myspace/facebook stalking)
cannot compute.
Friday, April 20, 2007
Thursday, April 19, 2007
//...
[music take that - shine]
back to the use in england. work, bored, fighting about scheduals and suffering an intense craving for a mcdonald's fillet-o-fish.
i'm also downloading copious amounts of illegal music on a school computer which makes me feel all happy in a 'stick it to the man' kind of way.
i have three months until i come home with atleast three more trips planned. we're going to dover at the beginning of may, mid may is france again and then ireland sometime in june, but i kind of just want to come home. everyone is getting off school and starting their summer, and i'm kind of bummed. i want to watch sailor moon on youtube with sarah, and have dodgy bonfires with adam and phil and bullshit astrology with maimes up on mt. tolmie. and what i wouldn't do for an ice capp....
i'm refusing to unpack from italy and greece and the result is not pretty. my couch is covered in crap - gifts for myself and my family, postcards that i haven't sent yet, dirty laundry and everything else that you might expect to find in an american ghetto.
it's actually pretty skank.
other than that though things are good. i missed my girls, so it's good to see them again.
/cut to amanda downloading italian rap and greek pop/rock.
Friday, April 13, 2007
//iraklia, iraklio.
[music hostel music?]
i have 4 minutes and am under siege by mosqitoes at the moment. finally made it to crete after spending a night outdoors in the freezing cold on an island that was not crete. news to us. 60 euro later and three ferries and we finally made it to a hostel that makes us feel like we've infiltrated a cult. they're like a huge family. check out www.yhplakias.com for photos and everything. two minutes. love you all. back in england on monday. stay tuned for photos and stories.
Sunday, April 08, 2007
//athens.
so quick one on athens.
we're either being shot at 12 times a day, or there is a serious car backfiring problem here. i put it up around iraq on the frequency scale. all hours of the night. it's a show.
on the fabulous side, it's so warm here. 23 degrees or so. i have the begining inklings of a tan. yes. a tan. on my pale ass. who knew it was possible.
oh, and happy easter to all. i called my parents house last night and it was kind of hysterical. 10 people or so from my family all piled around the speakerphone shouting things and asking questions. i heard maybe half of it and rambled on about the things i thought were interesting, so if i missed any questions, feel free to ask. god knows i love to talk about myself. haha.
but i'm off now. have to get some cheap knock-off shopping in before we leave. i actually just picked up a sweet pair of Dior sunglasses. they could be real....
we're either being shot at 12 times a day, or there is a serious car backfiring problem here. i put it up around iraq on the frequency scale. all hours of the night. it's a show.
on the fabulous side, it's so warm here. 23 degrees or so. i have the begining inklings of a tan. yes. a tan. on my pale ass. who knew it was possible.
oh, and happy easter to all. i called my parents house last night and it was kind of hysterical. 10 people or so from my family all piled around the speakerphone shouting things and asking questions. i heard maybe half of it and rambled on about the things i thought were interesting, so if i missed any questions, feel free to ask. god knows i love to talk about myself. haha.
but i'm off now. have to get some cheap knock-off shopping in before we leave. i actually just picked up a sweet pair of Dior sunglasses. they could be real....
//greco-roman.
i'm in athens, greece. this is stop 5 on our three week italy/greece tour.
my favorite city in the world at this current moment in time is rome. i actually can't even express how much i love that city. well... cities, if you count the vatican. which would then bring the count to 6 cities, but whatever.
rome was amazing for several reasons. the architecture was stunning. the food was amazing. the hostel was a circus. and i was with two of my best friends.
we went to: the colosseum, st. peter's basilica, st. peter's square for palm sunday mass, a billion or so piles of ruins that were all equally brilliant, the cat sancutuary (random, i know).
we ate: real italian lasagne, thick and thin pizza, an array of baked goods and more gelato than one person should consume in a lifetime.
we hung out with: two americans from philly and cinccinati that made the hostel stay all the more memorable. and of course, maria and kelly.
so, on the subject of americans comes the subject of memorable events. the first of which comes care of our new buddy paul. we comes into the common room pale faced and obviously disturbed. we proccedes to tell me and John (pronounced YAWN, cause he's Russian) that while at the call center talking to his girlfriend he encountered a rather drunken prostitute. she wandered around bugging people until she finally found a wall to squat down at. "and i was like, thank god, now she'll stop bothering me. and then she started to pee. and there was a huge puddle and it was coming at me, and i was like, 'ew, my shoes!'" then she stood up, whipped out a beer and cigarrette, and left. left a big puddle on the floor, but left all the same. now if that's not memorable...
there was also a conversation about steak. it went from craving a 40 oz to deep frying the whole damn cow. it takes a north american going through beef withdrawl to actually think that that is a good idea.
also memorable... 1 bathroom for 13 people. yeah... yeah.
my favorite city in the world at this current moment in time is rome. i actually can't even express how much i love that city. well... cities, if you count the vatican. which would then bring the count to 6 cities, but whatever.
rome was amazing for several reasons. the architecture was stunning. the food was amazing. the hostel was a circus. and i was with two of my best friends.
we went to: the colosseum, st. peter's basilica, st. peter's square for palm sunday mass, a billion or so piles of ruins that were all equally brilliant, the cat sancutuary (random, i know).
we ate: real italian lasagne, thick and thin pizza, an array of baked goods and more gelato than one person should consume in a lifetime.
we hung out with: two americans from philly and cinccinati that made the hostel stay all the more memorable. and of course, maria and kelly.
so, on the subject of americans comes the subject of memorable events. the first of which comes care of our new buddy paul. we comes into the common room pale faced and obviously disturbed. we proccedes to tell me and John (pronounced YAWN, cause he's Russian) that while at the call center talking to his girlfriend he encountered a rather drunken prostitute. she wandered around bugging people until she finally found a wall to squat down at. "and i was like, thank god, now she'll stop bothering me. and then she started to pee. and there was a huge puddle and it was coming at me, and i was like, 'ew, my shoes!'" then she stood up, whipped out a beer and cigarrette, and left. left a big puddle on the floor, but left all the same. now if that's not memorable...
there was also a conversation about steak. it went from craving a 40 oz to deep frying the whole damn cow. it takes a north american going through beef withdrawl to actually think that that is a good idea.
also memorable... 1 bathroom for 13 people. yeah... yeah.
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
//i lika your shoes...
Roma. home of some of europe's creepiest men and some of the most friggin amazing architecture you'll ever feast your eyes upon. i've already decided that i'm retiring here in 50 odd years. we've gone to the colosseum, the vatican, and seen a mass on palm sunday that was presided over by the pope. we went to saint peter's basillica today and went to the very top of the dome. 551 stairs. i became asthmatic somewhere around the 320th. we were actually slightly retarded and decided to run up nearly the first 100... it was not pretty. and then we galloped/pony-ran all the way down. we're masters, clearly.
aside from all the madeness of big stone monumental esque things, we've been roaming aimlessly and befriending americans. two of our hostelmates are from the states (cinccinati & philly) and we've been having random ass talks into all hours of the night. from diabetis & apple pie to the bronx zoo & italian prostitutes peeing on your shoe while on the phone... Paul from Cinccinati had a little incident the other night while calling his girlfriend back home. Actually one of the funniest reenactments i've ever bore witness to.
we leave tomorrow morning for athens, greece. we actually have a flight at a decent hour tomorrow. 2 pm. it's our saving grace on this trip i think. so, more updates from greece. ciao.
aside from all the madeness of big stone monumental esque things, we've been roaming aimlessly and befriending americans. two of our hostelmates are from the states (cinccinati & philly) and we've been having random ass talks into all hours of the night. from diabetis & apple pie to the bronx zoo & italian prostitutes peeing on your shoe while on the phone... Paul from Cinccinati had a little incident the other night while calling his girlfriend back home. Actually one of the funniest reenactments i've ever bore witness to.
we leave tomorrow morning for athens, greece. we actually have a flight at a decent hour tomorrow. 2 pm. it's our saving grace on this trip i think. so, more updates from greece. ciao.
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