not much to say. i'm going to the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA) conference march 16-19 in baltimore. i'm excited for that. mr. etown is that sat night, and i'm going to miss it. that makes me sad since joe is in it this year. oh well. that sunday is gretchen's bridal shower (jeff is finally getting married!) so i'm going to try to come straight home early sunday morning to go to that then head back to school mon morning so i can go to the bridge sunday night and see kim and whoever else is there. i might see if liz wants to meet me in baltimore fri or sat night so we can hit up the latin palace for some dancing. we'll see.
one more week of school then i'll be home for spring break. i'm probably going to go to nj for a day b/c dimetrios is coming from greece to see amanda, and i want to see him!!!!!
<3
26 February 2006
15 February 2006
Valentine's Day...
...was lots of fun. I got candy from Tom, mom & dad, and my friend Jills. Roses from mom & dad.
Then Amanda, Sara, Jills, Mel, & I had a glass of wine while watching American Idol and the olympics, then watched just like heaven and ate a ton of snack food.
Amanda, Me, Sara & our sangria while watching American Idol
Sara, Me, Jills...ready with our popcorn for a nice chick flick
Sara, Mel, Me, Jills
Then Amanda, Sara, Jills, Mel, & I had a glass of wine while watching American Idol and the olympics, then watched just like heaven and ate a ton of snack food.
Amanda, Me, Sara & our sangria while watching American Idol
Sara, Me, Jills...ready with our popcorn for a nice chick flick
Sara, Mel, Me, Jills
09 February 2006
important dates as of right now
Emotion Show - March 31 & April 1
Percussion Ensemble Concert - April 9
My 21st Birthday - April 21
Band Concert - April 30
Percussion Ensemble Concert - April 9
My 21st Birthday - April 21
Band Concert - April 30
update
so...what's been going on in the life of me lately...
*i performed brain surgery last week
(and by brain surgery i mean dissected a sheep's brain)
that was kinda cool once i got past being really grossed out
classes are going well so far. for the most part they're pretty interesting.
all my honor's stuff is going to kill me. i need 4 credits for my honors thesis/honors in the discipline thesis. the psych program doesn't have a course for a senior thesis unlike most departments. so i'm contracting my research course for this semester to do extended research into next semester, which means i'll most likely take an incomplete for this semester and finish next semester since i have until october to complete an incomplete. after finishing the extended research portion of my thesis, i'll have another month and a half or so to finish the thesis which needs to be formally presented before finals in december...yeah that's a little scary. my thesis also needs to be judged excellent/honors quality by at least half of the faculty in my department. the formal presentation aspect is just an honors program requirement, not honors in the discipline req. my prof for my research class seems pretty cool so i'm kinda looking forward to working with her. i'm looking to combine positive psychology with developmental psychology since my research course is in developmental psych, fortunately, they go together pretty well. also, while talking to the honors program director, also the prof directing my thesis prep seminar, she suggested getting in contact with dr. seligman, the founder of positive psychology, about possibly meeting him and visiting his lab since he's a prof at upenn. i'll have to look into that.
dance is going well. i really like the number i'm in although it's a little rough on my knee. my water aerobics class was cancelled for this week b/c my instructor had to go to a funeral then this weekend is MACs, some big final competition thing for the swim team, so i got to the gym monday and hopefully will tomorrow if i have any free time during the day.
i think that's about it for now.
<3
*i performed brain surgery last week
(and by brain surgery i mean dissected a sheep's brain)
that was kinda cool once i got past being really grossed out
classes are going well so far. for the most part they're pretty interesting.
all my honor's stuff is going to kill me. i need 4 credits for my honors thesis/honors in the discipline thesis. the psych program doesn't have a course for a senior thesis unlike most departments. so i'm contracting my research course for this semester to do extended research into next semester, which means i'll most likely take an incomplete for this semester and finish next semester since i have until october to complete an incomplete. after finishing the extended research portion of my thesis, i'll have another month and a half or so to finish the thesis which needs to be formally presented before finals in december...yeah that's a little scary. my thesis also needs to be judged excellent/honors quality by at least half of the faculty in my department. the formal presentation aspect is just an honors program requirement, not honors in the discipline req. my prof for my research class seems pretty cool so i'm kinda looking forward to working with her. i'm looking to combine positive psychology with developmental psychology since my research course is in developmental psych, fortunately, they go together pretty well. also, while talking to the honors program director, also the prof directing my thesis prep seminar, she suggested getting in contact with dr. seligman, the founder of positive psychology, about possibly meeting him and visiting his lab since he's a prof at upenn. i'll have to look into that.
dance is going well. i really like the number i'm in although it's a little rough on my knee. my water aerobics class was cancelled for this week b/c my instructor had to go to a funeral then this weekend is MACs, some big final competition thing for the swim team, so i got to the gym monday and hopefully will tomorrow if i have any free time during the day.
i think that's about it for now.
<3
30 January 2006
i'm a postcard addict
i brought back some stuff to decorate a little since our walls were so bare
it's about 4'x4' at the moment and that's maybe half my postcard collection i also have a couple small paintings from my world painting collection near my bed...1 from new orleans, 1 from santorini, and 1 from rome. my one from france is at home, i'll have to bring that back to add to a wall.
ps. feel free to send me more =)
it's about 4'x4' at the moment and that's maybe half my postcard collection i also have a couple small paintings from my world painting collection near my bed...1 from new orleans, 1 from santorini, and 1 from rome. my one from france is at home, i'll have to bring that back to add to a wall.
ps. feel free to send me more =)
28 January 2006
military ball
I had a lot of fun last night =)
and I'm sure this is what you all really want...
Tom & I
me and my lovely little sister =)
and I'm sure this is what you all really want...
Tom & I
me and my lovely little sister =)
24 January 2006
my 1st week and a half
well, let's see. the 2 things i've learned so far...FYI:
the word hysteria comes from the greek word for uterus. originally used to descripe what are essentially the symptoms of pms, maybe hysteria too, b/c they thought the uterus could wander around your body then they later learned it's not an animal, it's a body part.
chicken pox is caused by the herpes virus.
anyways, classes are going well. they're going to be a lot of work, but should be interesting. i really enjoy my water aerobics class. it's a nice way to start off my day.
for emotion (the dance club) i'm doing a jazz # to the techno remix of o fortuna from carmina burana. so far, i really like the choreography, so that'll be fun...and a good work out.
probably the most stressful thing this semester and next will be my senior thesis. i'm supposed to come up with at least the beginnings of a proposal by spring break (the 1st week of march). as a psych major, my senior thesis/honor's thesis/honor's in the discipline project is an original research project, which will be evaluated by the members of the department, and for the honor's program, i need to formal presentation open to the campus and local communities. i have no clue what i want to do so i'm researching potential ideas for that. i'll probably do something with positive psychology.
grad school...looking at liberty for my masters in counselling. not sure about that yet. and getting licensed as a school psychologist requires at least a masters before you can get certified as well as lots of hours of fieldwork. one of the founders of positive psychology is a professor at upenn so i'm looking into that. they don't have a masters program though, just a doctoral program. and they only accept about 10 out of 500 applicants so i have almost no chance of getting into that program. on the plus side, they give you at least $20,000 a year for the 1st 4 years so you can focus on your studies and research.
lets see...fun stuff in my life...saturday night liz (my roomie from last year), elise, bill, jurgen, garry, and i hung out at liz's apartment and played taboo. that was a lot of fun. amanda (my new roomie), sara, and kristi having been hanging out a lot watching sex in the city and movies. last night we watched moulin rouge...great movie. i loved it. go watch it. (it's kinda random and pretty artsy so don't watch it if you don't like that kind of thing)
this friday night i'm going to a military ball in downingtown with tom (he graduated last year and we were in band and percussion ensemble together). i'm really excited about that. (anyone around p-ville, i'll be home sat if you want to hang out, but i won't have a car b/c it'll be getting repaired...call me if you want to meet up) i'm going back to etown saturday night b/c i work sunday morning.
well, i hope you're all doing well.
<3
the word hysteria comes from the greek word for uterus. originally used to descripe what are essentially the symptoms of pms, maybe hysteria too, b/c they thought the uterus could wander around your body then they later learned it's not an animal, it's a body part.
chicken pox is caused by the herpes virus.
anyways, classes are going well. they're going to be a lot of work, but should be interesting. i really enjoy my water aerobics class. it's a nice way to start off my day.
for emotion (the dance club) i'm doing a jazz # to the techno remix of o fortuna from carmina burana. so far, i really like the choreography, so that'll be fun...and a good work out.
probably the most stressful thing this semester and next will be my senior thesis. i'm supposed to come up with at least the beginnings of a proposal by spring break (the 1st week of march). as a psych major, my senior thesis/honor's thesis/honor's in the discipline project is an original research project, which will be evaluated by the members of the department, and for the honor's program, i need to formal presentation open to the campus and local communities. i have no clue what i want to do so i'm researching potential ideas for that. i'll probably do something with positive psychology.
grad school...looking at liberty for my masters in counselling. not sure about that yet. and getting licensed as a school psychologist requires at least a masters before you can get certified as well as lots of hours of fieldwork. one of the founders of positive psychology is a professor at upenn so i'm looking into that. they don't have a masters program though, just a doctoral program. and they only accept about 10 out of 500 applicants so i have almost no chance of getting into that program. on the plus side, they give you at least $20,000 a year for the 1st 4 years so you can focus on your studies and research.
lets see...fun stuff in my life...saturday night liz (my roomie from last year), elise, bill, jurgen, garry, and i hung out at liz's apartment and played taboo. that was a lot of fun. amanda (my new roomie), sara, and kristi having been hanging out a lot watching sex in the city and movies. last night we watched moulin rouge...great movie. i loved it. go watch it. (it's kinda random and pretty artsy so don't watch it if you don't like that kind of thing)
this friday night i'm going to a military ball in downingtown with tom (he graduated last year and we were in band and percussion ensemble together). i'm really excited about that. (anyone around p-ville, i'll be home sat if you want to hang out, but i won't have a car b/c it'll be getting repaired...call me if you want to meet up) i'm going back to etown saturday night b/c i work sunday morning.
well, i hope you're all doing well.
<3
13 January 2006
scheduling makes my life very difficult
I just found out today that my honors leadership seminar is cancelled for the semester. On the plus side, I can now take band and get one of my social work reqs out of the way. I guess there really isn't a downside unless they don't offer such a course in the fall...which hopefully they will since they cancelled it for the spring. Here's the updated schedule.
Mondays: band 4:30-6
Tuesdays: water aerobics 9:30-10:20
neuroscience 11-12:15
research in developmental psych 12:30-1:45
abnormal psych 2-3:15
Wednesdays: theories of personality 9:30-10:45
honors thesis prep 2-3:20
band 4:30-6
Thursdays: water aerobics 9:30-10:20
neuroscience 11-12:15
research in developmental psych 12:30-1:45
abnormal psych 2-3:15
percussion ensemble 8-9:15
Fridays: theories of personality 9:30-10:45
This semester's going to be insanely busy/hard. And I'm almost positive I have to take the GREs in April or June or something so if anyone wants to get me a GRE prep book, that would be fantastic.
Mondays: band 4:30-6
Tuesdays: water aerobics 9:30-10:20
neuroscience 11-12:15
research in developmental psych 12:30-1:45
abnormal psych 2-3:15
Wednesdays: theories of personality 9:30-10:45
honors thesis prep 2-3:20
band 4:30-6
Thursdays: water aerobics 9:30-10:20
neuroscience 11-12:15
research in developmental psych 12:30-1:45
abnormal psych 2-3:15
percussion ensemble 8-9:15
Fridays: theories of personality 9:30-10:45
This semester's going to be insanely busy/hard. And I'm almost positive I have to take the GREs in April or June or something so if anyone wants to get me a GRE prep book, that would be fantastic.
26 December 2005
pictures
Pictures from my last days in Greece, Amsterdam, and Paris are all up under the 1st picture link. Enjoy.
20 December 2005
my last adventures
amsterdam is a very lovely city. i wish i would've had more than 24 hours there. we went to the van gogh museum wednesday morning which was pretty spiffy. then they had this "kids" exhibit downstairs about animals. they had this thing where you could draw your own virtual sea creature then send it to this virtual pool and they would eat each other and grow and have babies and die...it was pretty awesome! then we went to the anne frank house. that was interesting. there was really a lot more room in their secret hiding place than i'd always imagined. at the end of the exhibit they had this room and they presented different controversial topics then specific examples and then you could vote for whether it should be allowed or not and it showed you the % of people in the room and total % of what people thought. there was stuff like the patriot act, should irish protestants be allowed to march through catholic neighborhoods, should the japanese government be allowed to make a directory of all citizens names/age/sex/etc, all kinds of stuff. i wish we'd had more time to see more of the issues. it was really interesting and well done. they had this cartoon character at the beginning of each overall topic that was pretty funny too. unfortunately...or fortunately...not really sure, we didn't have time to check out the red light district. although we walked down this one street toward the outskirts of the city that had a couple store fronts with hookers in the windows. they were just chillin in their underwear, looking pretty bored. no, we didn't even go into a cafe. didn't have time for that either. one of them had a sign that said you had to be 18 to enter then it said "and don't fuck around" i thought that was pretty funny
ok, paris...that was amazing. thursday we spend 7 hours at the louvre. amazing. that's all i can say. friday we did the sacre coeur - beautiful cathedral, arc de triumphe...that was cool. we saw a couple other famous buildings there too - the trocodero, hotel des invalides, some other ones. then the eiffel tower. went to the top, which was pretty scary. it was cool though b/c they had the distances to major cities all over the world. then they had free ice skating on the 1st level. that was pretty awesome. i iceskated on the eiffel tower. then we went to the rodin museum. (rodin is my favorite sculptor) but it closed before we could go through the whole thing. i think that's about it for friday. saturday we went to notre dame. that was amazing. it's such a beautiful cathedral. the gargoyles are awesome. loved those. it's 422 steps to the top of the tower. we saw esmerelda's room from the hunchback of notre dame and the bell quasimodo rang. that was cool. then we spent a few hours at the centre pompidou, one of the modern art museums. they had an exhibit on dada (an art movement) which was interesting. the building itself was pretty spiffy although it's very controversial b/c of it's incredibly modern architecture in the midst of all the older buildings. then we went lingerie shopping. =P
saturday night we went out for a really nice dinner. it was kinda funny. friday i had roast duck for lunch and it was amazing. so they had some duck thing on the menu, of course it was all in french so i wasn't sure exactly what it was but i was like duck was good yesterday, i'll get it again since i never have it at home. so the waiter brings out my plate and it's 2 pink squares of meat. i was like courtney, please just tell me i'm not eating raw meat...please...and she's like no and i was like courtney, are you lying to me and she said she really didn't know. so she asked her mom when she called her parents that night and...i ate duck liver! it was gross. i foreced myself to eat part of it then i just couldn't anymore. EEWWW!!
anyways...i've done the ninja turtule art tour - leonardo, michaelangelo, raphael, and donatello, and seen probably every major artist in the world which is pretty awesome. (yeah, i'm an art museum nerd)
just in case you need a last minute christmas present idea: gift certificate to michael's so i can get scrapbooking supplies, scrapbooking supplies, money to get prints of pictures, etc.
ok, paris...that was amazing. thursday we spend 7 hours at the louvre. amazing. that's all i can say. friday we did the sacre coeur - beautiful cathedral, arc de triumphe...that was cool. we saw a couple other famous buildings there too - the trocodero, hotel des invalides, some other ones. then the eiffel tower. went to the top, which was pretty scary. it was cool though b/c they had the distances to major cities all over the world. then they had free ice skating on the 1st level. that was pretty awesome. i iceskated on the eiffel tower. then we went to the rodin museum. (rodin is my favorite sculptor) but it closed before we could go through the whole thing. i think that's about it for friday. saturday we went to notre dame. that was amazing. it's such a beautiful cathedral. the gargoyles are awesome. loved those. it's 422 steps to the top of the tower. we saw esmerelda's room from the hunchback of notre dame and the bell quasimodo rang. that was cool. then we spent a few hours at the centre pompidou, one of the modern art museums. they had an exhibit on dada (an art movement) which was interesting. the building itself was pretty spiffy although it's very controversial b/c of it's incredibly modern architecture in the midst of all the older buildings. then we went lingerie shopping. =P
saturday night we went out for a really nice dinner. it was kinda funny. friday i had roast duck for lunch and it was amazing. so they had some duck thing on the menu, of course it was all in french so i wasn't sure exactly what it was but i was like duck was good yesterday, i'll get it again since i never have it at home. so the waiter brings out my plate and it's 2 pink squares of meat. i was like courtney, please just tell me i'm not eating raw meat...please...and she's like no and i was like courtney, are you lying to me and she said she really didn't know. so she asked her mom when she called her parents that night and...i ate duck liver! it was gross. i foreced myself to eat part of it then i just couldn't anymore. EEWWW!!
anyways...i've done the ninja turtule art tour - leonardo, michaelangelo, raphael, and donatello, and seen probably every major artist in the world which is pretty awesome. (yeah, i'm an art museum nerd)
just in case you need a last minute christmas present idea: gift certificate to michael's so i can get scrapbooking supplies, scrapbooking supplies, money to get prints of pictures, etc.
08 December 2005
Say Goodbye
My finals are done. I have a presentation in an hour, then I'm done for the semester! Woohoo!
Tonight our whole group is going out for one last dinner together. That'll be nice =)
I'll be home in 10 days, so see you all hopefully that week. (Steele City 2 weeks from today!)
I don't know if I'll get online any more before I get home, so if not, have a wondeful next 10 days and I'll update when I get home.
<3
Tonight our whole group is going out for one last dinner together. That'll be nice =)
I'll be home in 10 days, so see you all hopefully that week. (Steele City 2 weeks from today!)
I don't know if I'll get online any more before I get home, so if not, have a wondeful next 10 days and I'll update when I get home.
<3
05 December 2005
let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears
friday i bought a much needed winter coat, and wonderful sweater that was really cheap. at the store i bought the coat from, you got a rose for shopping there. that made me very happy. saturday i took at least an hour long bubble bath and listened to norah jones. *delightful* then we had breakfast for dinner and it was yummy.
sunday was a good day. i went to church for the 1st time since i've been here which was nice...although i still really miss my church. then i sat on the couch for about 5 hours and read a book, listened to music and sang. then amanda's bf demetrios came over and told us we were all going out. so he took us out for coffee, then courtney and i walked arm in arm almost the entire way back. it was fun. then we all had dinner together, then sat around and took a zillion pics of him and amanda that are adorable. then we started talking about art cuz courtney's an art major so then she drew my portrait which was cool. it was a very delightful evening. and thanks demetrios for making us leave our apartment. lol.
tonight is going to kinda suck. i have an 8-10 page paper to write, and a ton of greek hw to do since i skipped class. yuck. i have 1 1/2 finals tomorrow, 1 wednesday, and 1/2 a final and a presentation thursday. (our greek final is split between tues and thurs)...it's going to be a fun week
*the italy pics are all posted now*
13 days til i get home
sunday was a good day. i went to church for the 1st time since i've been here which was nice...although i still really miss my church. then i sat on the couch for about 5 hours and read a book, listened to music and sang. then amanda's bf demetrios came over and told us we were all going out. so he took us out for coffee, then courtney and i walked arm in arm almost the entire way back. it was fun. then we all had dinner together, then sat around and took a zillion pics of him and amanda that are adorable. then we started talking about art cuz courtney's an art major so then she drew my portrait which was cool. it was a very delightful evening. and thanks demetrios for making us leave our apartment. lol.
tonight is going to kinda suck. i have an 8-10 page paper to write, and a ton of greek hw to do since i skipped class. yuck. i have 1 1/2 finals tomorrow, 1 wednesday, and 1/2 a final and a presentation thursday. (our greek final is split between tues and thurs)...it's going to be a fun week
*the italy pics are all posted now*
13 days til i get home
01 December 2005
Italy
Rome was great, despite a cold rainy start to the weekend. The highlight of my weekend was definately seeing the Sistine Chapel and the Pieta. I also saw the Colosseum and a ton of other beautiful fountains, statues, buildings, etc. I of course had some pizza and some really good pasta. I started putting some pictures up. I'll get the rest up next week. I deleted all the pictures from the beginning of the trip, so the ones from Italy should be under the first link.
24 November 2005
Thanksgiving
Dad and Michelle got here yesterday. We haven't done too much yet b/c it's been pouring the entire time. We walked through the National Gardens, saw the Parliament Building and the tomb of the unknown soldier with the guards, and walked around some of the city.
This morning we had a ton of people over for a big Thanksgiving breakfast. It turned out really well. I got up around 7 and made pancakes for about an hour. We also had french toast, scrambled eggs, bacon, pumpkin bread, some kinda pastry type thing, and baklava (yeah, i know, it's a dessert, but who cares)Today we're going to some art museum with my Humanities class then are having Thanksgiving dinner at Aphrodite's. We'll probably go to bed early since we have to get up rediculously early to go to Rome in the morning.
I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving! Be back next week.
This morning we had a ton of people over for a big Thanksgiving breakfast. It turned out really well. I got up around 7 and made pancakes for about an hour. We also had french toast, scrambled eggs, bacon, pumpkin bread, some kinda pastry type thing, and baklava (yeah, i know, it's a dessert, but who cares)Today we're going to some art museum with my Humanities class then are having Thanksgiving dinner at Aphrodite's. We'll probably go to bed early since we have to get up rediculously early to go to Rome in the morning.
I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving! Be back next week.
22 November 2005
i love my church
For those of you who don't know, the Bridge is the church service for young adults I go to at Calvary Fellowship Church in Downingtown. Their band is amazing and they're playing at World Cafe Live in Philly. That's so exciting! I know most of you don't really care, but too bad =P
Go check them out
The Bridge Band
Grassroots Magazine
Go check them out
The Bridge Band
Grassroots Magazine
21 November 2005
i come home in less than a month
just to let you all know =P
anyways,
this week has been pretty good. i got 3 tests back and did well on all of them. not that it's a big deal since my grades don't transfer back to etown. i just have to pass.
we had a roomie weekend since none of us went anywhere. friday night we went to hard rock athens and saturday night we had a little absinthe that alicia brought back from prague and played truth or dare. that was pretty funny.
saturday afternoon i went shopping. i'm glad to say i am all done my Chrismas shopping and some birthdays as well. of course if i see anything else that i just have to get someone i will. you can never get someone too many presents =)
i also did my scheduling for next semester.
Mon: 5-6:20 Honors Leadership Development
Tues: 9:30-10:20 Water Aerobics
11-12:15 Honors Neuroscience
12:30-1:45 Research in Developmental Psych
Wed: 9:30-10:45 Theories of Personality
2-3:20 Honors Thesis Prep
5-6:20 Honors Leadership Development
Thurs: 9:30-10:20 Water Aerobics
11-12:15 Honors Neuroscience
12:30-1:45 Researh in Developmental Psych
8-9:15 Percussion Ensemble
Fri: 9:30-10:45 Theories of Personality
Unfortunately, band doesn't fit into my schedule =( It's going to be a busy semester, but it should be good.
This semester has flown by. I can't believe I come home in less than a month! It's going to be a busy couple weeks.
anyways,
this week has been pretty good. i got 3 tests back and did well on all of them. not that it's a big deal since my grades don't transfer back to etown. i just have to pass.
we had a roomie weekend since none of us went anywhere. friday night we went to hard rock athens and saturday night we had a little absinthe that alicia brought back from prague and played truth or dare. that was pretty funny.
saturday afternoon i went shopping. i'm glad to say i am all done my Chrismas shopping and some birthdays as well. of course if i see anything else that i just have to get someone i will. you can never get someone too many presents =)
i also did my scheduling for next semester.
Mon: 5-6:20 Honors Leadership Development
Tues: 9:30-10:20 Water Aerobics
11-12:15 Honors Neuroscience
12:30-1:45 Research in Developmental Psych
Wed: 9:30-10:45 Theories of Personality
2-3:20 Honors Thesis Prep
5-6:20 Honors Leadership Development
Thurs: 9:30-10:20 Water Aerobics
11-12:15 Honors Neuroscience
12:30-1:45 Researh in Developmental Psych
8-9:15 Percussion Ensemble
Fri: 9:30-10:45 Theories of Personality
Unfortunately, band doesn't fit into my schedule =( It's going to be a busy semester, but it should be good.
This semester has flown by. I can't believe I come home in less than a month! It's going to be a busy couple weeks.
15 November 2005
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
gotta love They Might Be Giants
Anyways, Istanbul was beautiful. I wish I'd had more time to spend their and in Turkey. All the leaves were turning colors and falling. It was gorgeous. I miss fall b/c it doesn't look like fall at all in Athens. We stayed in the old part of the city. The streets were all cobblestone (sp?). We visited the Blue Mosque which was beautiful (I'm going to use that word a lot in this entry...sorry). We also went to Haghia Sophia, another gorgeous religious building which was both Muslim and Christian. That was really interesting to see the integration of the 2 religions...and kinda weird seeing Christian symbols in a mosque.
I'm not going to lie...we did a lot of shopping instead of visiting more historical sights. I got a lot of presents for people so that was exciting. And of course, a few things for me =) I got 2 beautiful scarves and a leather jacket. Yes, I got a leather jacket (sorry all you vegetarians/animal rights people). Selena talked me into it. She got one and a fur coat and I was like I really don't do leather or fur. And she was all happy and excited and told me she's buy me one. And I was told her I wasn't letting her buy me a leather jacket so she told me to just try one on. And I was finally like fine, but something simple. So I did and I loved it. And she talked to guy down to $90 which was how much she owed me for our hotel room so I told her she could buy me the jacket and I'd cover the hotel. I'm really glad I got it b/c I don't really have many warm clothes. Now I'll at least have a coat. Let's see...what else...the people were all very friends. I was a little scared it would be like Cairo and I definately couldn't handle that 2 weekends in a row, but it wasn't.
This one guy told us this joke they have about Americans. He goes "What's the difference between Americans and yogurt?" And we're pretty confused and he's like "yogurt has more culture" so we were a little indignant and stuff, then as we're laying in bed watching MTV Europe every night for about 4 hours we just look at each other and go "yogurt" it was kinda funny. It got dark early so we went back to the room and watched MTV to try to catch up a little on what's going on. Of course it was MTV Europe so they had some really weird commercials and stuff. But we got to see the MTV Europe music awards and if we have no culture, why are American bands winning most of the awards? lol.
I definately want to go back to Turkey again. I never realized how much is there. Troy is in Turkey (definately thought it was in Greece) A bunch of the churches Paul visited (Ephasus, Smyrna, Philadelphia, etc) are all in Turkey. They had a 3 day tour of the 7 churches that I would've liked to do, but we didn't have time since we had to get back for class.
It was just a great weekend and pretty relaxing.
flying back we flew over lesbos which was really awesome for me...quick history lesson...lesbos is the home of sappho, the first recorded female poet. it is also where the word lesbian came from b/c sappho was supposedly a lesbian
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
gotta love They Might Be Giants
Anyways, Istanbul was beautiful. I wish I'd had more time to spend their and in Turkey. All the leaves were turning colors and falling. It was gorgeous. I miss fall b/c it doesn't look like fall at all in Athens. We stayed in the old part of the city. The streets were all cobblestone (sp?). We visited the Blue Mosque which was beautiful (I'm going to use that word a lot in this entry...sorry). We also went to Haghia Sophia, another gorgeous religious building which was both Muslim and Christian. That was really interesting to see the integration of the 2 religions...and kinda weird seeing Christian symbols in a mosque.
I'm not going to lie...we did a lot of shopping instead of visiting more historical sights. I got a lot of presents for people so that was exciting. And of course, a few things for me =) I got 2 beautiful scarves and a leather jacket. Yes, I got a leather jacket (sorry all you vegetarians/animal rights people). Selena talked me into it. She got one and a fur coat and I was like I really don't do leather or fur. And she was all happy and excited and told me she's buy me one. And I was told her I wasn't letting her buy me a leather jacket so she told me to just try one on. And I was finally like fine, but something simple. So I did and I loved it. And she talked to guy down to $90 which was how much she owed me for our hotel room so I told her she could buy me the jacket and I'd cover the hotel. I'm really glad I got it b/c I don't really have many warm clothes. Now I'll at least have a coat. Let's see...what else...the people were all very friends. I was a little scared it would be like Cairo and I definately couldn't handle that 2 weekends in a row, but it wasn't.
This one guy told us this joke they have about Americans. He goes "What's the difference between Americans and yogurt?" And we're pretty confused and he's like "yogurt has more culture" so we were a little indignant and stuff, then as we're laying in bed watching MTV Europe every night for about 4 hours we just look at each other and go "yogurt" it was kinda funny. It got dark early so we went back to the room and watched MTV to try to catch up a little on what's going on. Of course it was MTV Europe so they had some really weird commercials and stuff. But we got to see the MTV Europe music awards and if we have no culture, why are American bands winning most of the awards? lol.
I definately want to go back to Turkey again. I never realized how much is there. Troy is in Turkey (definately thought it was in Greece) A bunch of the churches Paul visited (Ephasus, Smyrna, Philadelphia, etc) are all in Turkey. They had a 3 day tour of the 7 churches that I would've liked to do, but we didn't have time since we had to get back for class.
It was just a great weekend and pretty relaxing.
flying back we flew over lesbos which was really awesome for me...quick history lesson...lesbos is the home of sappho, the first recorded female poet. it is also where the word lesbian came from b/c sappho was supposedly a lesbian
08 November 2005
walk like an egyptian
this weekend was insane.
first of all, it was the end of ramadan so everyone was celebrating, the streets were full of people, etc.
we got to our hotel in cairo around 4am friday morning, slept til around 10, then went to the national museum. we saw all kinds of stuff from the pyramids. we saw the mummy of Ramses the Great, all the King Tut stuff...including his underwear and condom (yes, they had condoms thousands of years ago) anyways, the museum was pretty cool. we stayed there for about 4 hours, then took a nap. on our way back from the museum, we had these girls come up to us and point at our chests...i guess b/c our shirts were too low cut (and we were dressed pretty conservatively) so the rest of the weekend we wore sweatshirts. friday night we went to pizza hut for dinner. foreigners aren't supposed to drink the water, eat fruits and vegetables, etc. there b/c you'll get sick. our hotel turned out to be pretty decent which i'm glad of. i was a little worried b/c it was only $8 a night for a room with a bathroom and that included breakfast.
saturday was our big day. we got up at 4:30 and went to Giza. We wanted to ride camels, but our guide said "you ride camel all day your bum hurt and you walk like an egyptian" so we got 1 camel and 2 horses and rotated. and yes, he was right. i'm still a little sore...my thighs hurt, my bum's a little sore, and my back hurts from all the jolting. running on a camel is pretty scary. i felt like i was going to fall off. especially b/c there's no stirrups on the camel. riding a horse was better. anyways, we went out to this big hill in the desert and watched the sunrise over the city and got some pretty cool pictures of the pyramids, then went to the pyramids and went inside the biggest one. that was about a 4-4 1/2 hour trip. then we drove through memphis and went to the saggara step pyramids and a couple tombs. we took a nap in the afternoon, then went on a nile river dinner cruise. the food was delicious and then there were dancers. it was a lot of fun. sunday we didn't do much, mostly b/c we ran out of money and were exhausted. we slept in, then laid around and read. we went to the hard rock cafe for dinner and ended up staying there for 4 hours. on the door of the bathroom stalls was a sign that said "no drugs or nuclear weapons" it was pretty funny. (i have a picture) on the way back to our hotel we had this one guy say "you want for husband...i give you 200 camels and maybe even a horse" we all burst out laughing as soon as we passed him.
all 3 of us ended up getting diarhea. that was fun. sunday afternoon i got sick, then alicia started getting sick sunday night, and amanda got sick yesterday. i had it the worst b/c we ran out of toilet paper at our hotel, so we stole some from hard rock, then at the airport you had to tip the attendant to get toilet paper so i was trying so hard not to.
anyways, it was a good weekend, and i got some great pics =)
first of all, it was the end of ramadan so everyone was celebrating, the streets were full of people, etc.
we got to our hotel in cairo around 4am friday morning, slept til around 10, then went to the national museum. we saw all kinds of stuff from the pyramids. we saw the mummy of Ramses the Great, all the King Tut stuff...including his underwear and condom (yes, they had condoms thousands of years ago) anyways, the museum was pretty cool. we stayed there for about 4 hours, then took a nap. on our way back from the museum, we had these girls come up to us and point at our chests...i guess b/c our shirts were too low cut (and we were dressed pretty conservatively) so the rest of the weekend we wore sweatshirts. friday night we went to pizza hut for dinner. foreigners aren't supposed to drink the water, eat fruits and vegetables, etc. there b/c you'll get sick. our hotel turned out to be pretty decent which i'm glad of. i was a little worried b/c it was only $8 a night for a room with a bathroom and that included breakfast.
saturday was our big day. we got up at 4:30 and went to Giza. We wanted to ride camels, but our guide said "you ride camel all day your bum hurt and you walk like an egyptian" so we got 1 camel and 2 horses and rotated. and yes, he was right. i'm still a little sore...my thighs hurt, my bum's a little sore, and my back hurts from all the jolting. running on a camel is pretty scary. i felt like i was going to fall off. especially b/c there's no stirrups on the camel. riding a horse was better. anyways, we went out to this big hill in the desert and watched the sunrise over the city and got some pretty cool pictures of the pyramids, then went to the pyramids and went inside the biggest one. that was about a 4-4 1/2 hour trip. then we drove through memphis and went to the saggara step pyramids and a couple tombs. we took a nap in the afternoon, then went on a nile river dinner cruise. the food was delicious and then there were dancers. it was a lot of fun. sunday we didn't do much, mostly b/c we ran out of money and were exhausted. we slept in, then laid around and read. we went to the hard rock cafe for dinner and ended up staying there for 4 hours. on the door of the bathroom stalls was a sign that said "no drugs or nuclear weapons" it was pretty funny. (i have a picture) on the way back to our hotel we had this one guy say "you want for husband...i give you 200 camels and maybe even a horse" we all burst out laughing as soon as we passed him.
all 3 of us ended up getting diarhea. that was fun. sunday afternoon i got sick, then alicia started getting sick sunday night, and amanda got sick yesterday. i had it the worst b/c we ran out of toilet paper at our hotel, so we stole some from hard rock, then at the airport you had to tip the attendant to get toilet paper so i was trying so hard not to.
anyways, it was a good weekend, and i got some great pics =)
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