tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40369569657027772572011-11-27T16:35:15.969-08:00Deprature Date: Every day.<br> Destination: Unknown.<br> Journey: Uncharted.<br> What I do know: That I don't know and that's the best part.Brittainy Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13977490137580385565noreply@blogger.comBlogger481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036956965702777257.post-85608994630501455942009-05-13T11:41:00.000-07:002009-05-13T11:53:00.218-07:00

Sandy gravel crunches as I shuffle to the center of the amphitheatre, accompanying my deep breaths. The sound makes me feel like I am being accompanied by history. In the breeze, centuries old voices whisper. I stand in their place.Stone steps rise around me. They look down expectantly. They have seen this before. They know what comes next.The sun is warm, but my fingertips are ice. I do not want

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        My alarm startled me from my sleep at 5:43. I wasn’t sure how many hours of sleep that figured out to be because my time schedule was still off from travelling.         A few minutes later, the hotel wake-up call came, by then I was wide awake. Something about seeing the sunrise in another world makes crawling out of a warm bed easier.        As my bare feet slide onto the cold stone I

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      He stands proud on this hill, looking down.      Golden, perhaps from the morning sun, he seems to glow. His streets wind up, down, left, right and back again. Curving like smiles and frowns, each road with the ability to choose a mood.       The term “go straight” takes on new meaning here, for there is rarely a straight street. But, turn enough times, and déjà vu. All roads lead to Rome

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      A couple sits precariously at the edge of a stone wall high above the waters. The sound of the waves intensifies, booming as they stumble over each other. Then, just as quickly as it began, silence, and the waves return to their peaceful lapping of the shore.       Indifferent to the sporadic volume changes of the waters, the couple laughs and smiles, undaunted by the fear of falling or the

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I couldn't even get to the pool this morning. The butterflies is my stomach left me uneasy and anxious. Do I have everything I need? Clothes, underwear, shampoo, soap, toothbrush. The necessities. Bandaids, Rolaids, ibuprofen, Benedryl, wet-naps, antibacterial, tide pen. The just-in-case items.Notebooks, pens, pencils. The school items.Alanna and I run to the store, I am in search of the perfect

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...will eventually take over. For now, I'm awake. It's still fairly early. My eyes are starting to glaze over, and all I can see is fog that covers the roads as I stare out of a bus on my way to Kinsale.But I'm not physically on a bus to Kinsale. I'm at my kitchen counter, which happens to be green like those faraway hills. I've been researching for longer than my eyes can handle. All I want to

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...soon enough. Or so the plans are going. Backpacking for the summer is definitely in my plans, and then...back to Eire. I miss it so much. I know that I'll miss America while I'm there, but you only live once, and I know what I want.

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By now most of you know that I'm back in the U.S.A. although I wasn't supposed to be home until June 3rd, I arrived in the land of the free on May 20th at about 8:00pm. The 21st was my little brothers birthday and I was determined to surprise him. I'll let you know how it went a bit later. I've got to head to work now to pay off all those travelling bills.

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...has more stars than you have ever had the opportunity to see ever in your life. But I'm getting ahead of myself.Cate and I were up pretty early on Wednesday morning so that we could leave our apartment by 7:45am to make it to the bus station for a 8:40 bus. I forgot my camera in my haste to be ready - but Cate brought hers so no worries, there are plenty of pictures. My AWESOME professor

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...I haven't updated in awhile. I could tell you that I'm stressed and the like but I'm not really sure what it is. I guess I just haven't been up to it. Today Carolan, Cate, Lizzy, her friend Becca and I went to Youghal (pronounced Yawl). It's a pretty cute beach town and we were able to walk the beach and look for seaglass and shells. But before we found the beach we walked around through the

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We're in Florence! As I type, I’m currently on a train from Rome to Florence. We woke up at around 9 and packed up the rest of our things and headed out, exhausted. Genna and Lizzy are across from me asleep, Lizzy’s head keeps nodding a bit and I really hope that her neck doesn’t hurt too much from the position she’s sleeping in.When we got to Florence Lizzy’s friend Rachel met us at the train

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Roma! We woke up at around 9 with the intention of being gone by 10 o’clock. We ended up leaving around 10 o’clock, locked the door to our brightly decorated bed and breakfast/hostel and headed out. We were a little unsure about the whole breakfast thing so we went across the street and grabbed some pastries at a little snack bar that was right in front of the metro stop. Luckily the metro is

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Since we got in at around 7:30 am, we ended up sleeping till 3 in the afternoon. We headed out to a bagel place for “breakfast” and then checked out some really cool shopping areas. They sell animals at shopping areas along the streets. Like those cart things you see in the center of the malls. There were bunnies, hamsters, ferrets, chickens, and more. I took a picture. I was in awe. We had pizza

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...is amazing!I absolutely love it here! We ended up passing out for a good amount of time and then went out to grab some food and drinks and came back to get ready for the night. We got all dolled up and headed out for the night. The first stop was a tap bar. Basically every table is set up with a tap that goes to a keg. There is a screen that has the counts for all the tables of how many litres

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It’s not very sunny but who I am to complain, hopefully it will get sunnier later. We’ll see. We are doing walking tours today so that we can see as much of Paris as possible and then we are going to check out the Eiffel Tower one more time and after dinner head to the Louvre. Hopefully we will go out tonight as well. Granted – that means pulling an all-night because we have to be at a train

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...because we are going to Paris!!Breakfast was at 9am and consisted of whatever food was left in my apartment. Conveniently that meant toast and eggs. So I made one-eyes (cut a hole in the middle of the toast – put it on the frying pan – drop egg into the hole) and there was fruit so we kind of feasted. Then we were off…We were at Cork ariport with plenty of time before our flight. While we

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...and you don't know when I'll be back again.I am leaving in just a few hours for our first stop on the Eurotrip - Paris, France!!I'm super excited and still packing some random little things. I'm going to try and get online to update whenever I can but unfortunately I can't promise anything. The girls and I had a fiesta last night and ate everything in my apartment. We couldn't leave anything

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...currently we are working on how to get from one city we will be at to another. Yup, we leave in 2 days and we're still planning. It's crazy. Packing you ask? Hmm....well. It's not done. It's started...per se. But not done. I have a fairly good idea of what I am bringing, and I have luckily done most of my laundry. I'm bringing a lot of stuff that can be mixed and matched. Lots of t-shirts and

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...there is a rainbow. I know this for sure - because it happened today. Genna and I went into town to meet with Lizzy and walk around. They needed some cheap sunglasses for our trip. It was beautiful out, the sun was shining, the sky was blue and the clouds in the sky were white and fluffy like cotton candy. It was quite windy as well, but we didn't mind since it was so sunny out! We met Lizzy

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...and I apologize. SO here is what's up. My friends came and were here for 10 days (one of them was) and there was St. Patrick's Day and Easter and plenty of homework to keep what free time I've had busy. I also leave for my 3 week Eurotrip in like 2 or 3 days so clearly I have had a lot on my mind. I'm going to do my best to recall...as much as I can. HollyAnn came on Thursday night. She didn't

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Luckily I couldn't sleep last night. So instead I decided I would continually try to upload pictures and....it finally worked!I've added pictures from the Ring of Kerry weekend, and as soon as I finish commenting on my Scotland Weekend pictures I will put the link to those up as well.The link for Kerry Pictures is on the right. Or just go here: Ring of Kerry Weekend - February 22-24th

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...make life so grand. I was sitting on the bus to Kinsale, flipping through my notes as I prepared to interview the craftsmen of Kinsale Crystal. The man in the seat next to me holds out a picture. "This is Alex - of Kinsale Crystal," he says. It's a black and white photograph of an upclose shot of Alex Davies, a crystal master cutter, as he works on a large piece in the small workroom of their

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Yes, I've been slacking on my blogging as of late. I apologize greatly. I have no idea where to begin either, because I have no idea where I left off, so I will tell you that a week ago I went away to Kerry for the weekend. It was a trip put together by the school and it was pretty amazing.Ring of Kerry. Kerry is a County in Ireland with some of the most beautiful views of the ocean and

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...while we were in Scotland. I'm ashamed.Once we got past those uber American things we were good. We arrived in Glasgow, Scotland on Saturday at around 10:30. It was pretty chilly but the sun was shining and I had made it through security without losing my Aveeno face lotion. Doesn't sound important - but let me tell you. It is.We headed toward McLay Guesthouse where we would be staying for the

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...muscles hurt that I didn't even know could hurt. But surfing was awesome. The surf was really rough but Carolan and I had a great time. I'm not sure if it was our 5mm thick wetsuits, or the fact that we normally swim in the frigid waters of Northeast America, but the water felt quite nice. In fact, I dove under a few times. Gave me some lovely bloodshot eyes but it was totally worth it. Our

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...(Beach Boys song anyone?) It's 7am. It's probably the earliest I've been awake the entire time that I have been in Eire. But hopefully it will be worth it. My roommate Carolan and I are going surfing in Garretstown in Kinsale, which is about 40 Minutes from where we live. I'm super excited, but super tired. I'll let you know how it goes. Our other roommate Sam is actually going to a surf

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...didn't eat enough before going to the gym today. Not smart. In any case I'm exhausted. I'm attempting to work on getting my Dublin pictures online but it's not going super well. However I do have my album done from my archaeology field trip which was super interesting. The link is to the right. Definitely check it out, I did my best to describe all the pictures and if you press the "slideshow"

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...to Dublin. It's a great Dropkick Murphys song. Download it. Dropkick Murphys is the reason we actually headed for Dublin on Thursday this week. The concert was Thursday night at Tripod in Dublin. We left Cork around 12 and arrived in Dublin at about 5. On the bus we met a boy from Canada and when we arrived at the Bus Station we started chatting and exchanged numbers. It turned out that his

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Check out my pictures from hiking the mountain! It was amazing! By the way, when you get to the photo album I recommend clicking the slideshow button or the grid button, it's easier to see the pictures that way. =] I love you!

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...doesn't even begin to describe me. I've done a lot of climbing this weekend so I figure I'll start with Saturday. Saturday I went to Cashel, Co. Tipperary (By the way Uncle Paul Tipperary is only about a 2 hour bus ride from here.). The trip was amazing. First we went to the Rock of Cashel and watched a video on the area and explored it. It was beging retored so some it wasn't available for

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...it feels like a long time since I last wrote. Almost a week in fact. I'm not totally sure where I left off. Oh yeah, our "garden." Joy - We planted flowers, sweet pea and wildflowers and strawberries. On Friday of that week we went to Waterford Co. and went on the tour of the Waterford Crystal Factory. That was one of those days where everything went right. Sam and Care and I made the bus

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...no lie.Yesterday we were invaded by a little over a dozen Irish college boys. I'm not complaining - I'm explaining. Just so we have that clear. Now I'll continue. It was Tuesday night. Now to put you in our shoes, we weren't sure if we wanted to go out that night. We heard a traditional Irish band was playing and it was going to be a good night but we just weren't feeling it. We were sitting

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...waited. Till about 9:15 PM. I was walking around on the patio (which should be a garden patio) when I noticed in the light of the street lamp that it appeared to be raining. I tilted my head straight up towards the stars and as the rain hit my face I thought, "How did I not notice this earlier?" Anyways, today was a good day. It was sunny pretty much all day. We got up and went to church at

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...at least not at this movie theatre in Cork. But let me back track a second. We woke up with the intention of going to Blarney and after setting out very late to walk to the Cork Bus station to take a bus there we missed our first bus. We then bought tickets for the next bus and as we looked for it in the "Departing Buses" section of the bus station, it left without four of us, two of us made

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we're American." That was Paul's apology to the others at The Old Oak when Smashmouth's "All Star" started to play and the entire table bursted out into song - something that occurred repeatedly throughout the night. Who wouldn't sing along to Journey, The Police, and Counting Crows? We headed out at around 8:30, which is a good time to leave in Ireland because things start and end a little

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...good night something else.It's 2 am and we just got home from the bars. It was a pretty awesome night. *I'm not gonna lie.* We stayed a few hours at Old Oak bar and then we moved to an brog which is more of a college student age group. Plus I think the old Oak people were getting really annoyed with our loudness. In America I wouldn't deem myself loud, but in Ireland I am in a group that is

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...and so far, that's it! I finished my schedule!! Well as far as I can anyway. Three of my classes times are to be determined. They actually organize their class times around your other class times so that you can take the class. Currently I have 35 Credits (which is like the equivalent to 20 credits at UMass). So worst case scenario, I can actually do without one of those courses. I wish I

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...seemed wicked interesting until our teacher started his lecture today. He looked so nervous and uncomfortable. I could barely pay attention, I was nervous for him and I had no idea why! I felt awful for him. So Carolan and I decided that was NOT a class that we wanted to take. Today we also decided not to take Irish Folklore. It's not quite the storytelling we wanted, and the Into to

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...I've been surfing the web making sure that even though galoshes, a rain coat and umbrella will be the attire of the semester, I know what's going on in NYC, Paris, London and Milan. Fashion magazines are my guilty pleasure. Vogue, Allure, and Glamour satisfy my hunger for stylish outfits that are completely unnecessary and close to impossible in this climate, never mind my 3 mile hike to and

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...so that should be fine.One class out of 2 classes. That's what our archaeology professor said to my roommate Sam when she asked him if he would mind her taking his class which conflicts with Immunology on Tuesdays. Fantastic.Intro to Archaeology of Ireland seems like it will be an excellent class. Three days a week, plus field trips. I love it. At 5 o'clock today, or rather at 17:00, I have

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At home they were already putting up the Valentine's Day items, but here Christmas is aliveand thriving. At church we sang Christmas songs and heard the story of the three wise men and at all the stores the Christmas sales are still going on (which save me money!! =] ). It's great I love that they don't rush by things. At home I felt like I couldn't listen to Christmas music the day after

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...and also with you.We just got back form church which was wonderful. It's a very small but gorgeous church, and mass starts at 12. We walked in and sat down about mid-way through the pews. We happen to be seated right across from the gifts and a minute after sitting down the priest came over to us and asked if there was any one willing to bring the gifts up during the offertory. A boy sitting

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...brings to mind that U2 song.Carolan and I slept for so long today! We didn't get out of bed until 2 in the afternoon, I can't remember if I've ever done that before. I took a shower, thankfully we've figured out how to work the heat system for the water so it wasn't freezing this time. The first day that we were here I seriously took a wicked cold shower. I needed to shower so I didn't really

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...it keeps raining.Rain Rain go away, come again another day. I currently look like I just took a shower, not the case.Rain is one thing if you are driving places, it's a total different thing when the only way you know how to get from point A to point B is to walk. However, I now understand why Ireland is so green, so much rain and such mild temperatures. It's not cold, it's rainy. I actually

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…ok, so there is no hotel in Cork airport. At least, we didn’t stay at any hotel in Cork airport. However, we did stay in Cork airport for the night. Our flight came in around 11:10 and after heave ho-ing our extra heavy bags onto a wonderful luggage cart, we met a new friend and found the perfect place to spend the night. (See Picture) Welcome to L’Hotel de Starbucks. The Starbucks doesn’t open

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…is all clouds right now.Reader’s Digest Version: In bed by 1 am on New Years Eve, up by 5 am New Years Day. By 6:20 am I joined Carolan, my soon-to-be roommate and her family at the airport. By 7 I had dropped off my luggage and headed toward the security check. With a tearful good-bye I hugged my parents, took pictures, told them I loved them and waved good-bye as I proceeded beyond security

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...that is still the question.I'm further along at least. I leave in two days and I now have at least one of my suitcase partially filled with the miscellaneous items I will need on my trip, which means, everything but my clothes. My clothes are in piles though. Organized of course separted by long sleeve, short sleeve, sweater, dress shirt, button up...the list goes on. I never realized how much

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...that is the question.I'm a listmaker. My desk is cluttered with lists, there are post-it notes with lists all over my bedroom walls, even my away message on AIM is a list. However, making a list to pack to move to Ireland for 5 months, backpacking for 2 of those months, is not as easy as my usual lists. In fact, it's practically impossible. I'm packing and unpacking, and packing and unpacking

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