Spring Break!!

Okay so I'm really sorry I've been so bad at updating my blog! Anyway, so the past 10 days or so has been spring break for me and so far I've been to Copenhagen, Denmark and Prague, Czech Republic and I'm currently in Greece!! I have one more stop to make, a brief overnight trip to Milan to stay with Alyssa before heading back to France. I've really had a lot of fun so far!! Everything is soooo beautiful!!!

Copenhagen was really fun - I went with my friend Melanie from my program and we got there and wandered around. I've never seen so many statues in one city before!! Copenhagen is really easy to navigate and our hostel was in downtown in a really good location. We walked passed the Tivoli Gardens but never ended up going in it because it was closed, and then when it opened the weather wasn't very good. But we went on a Hans Christian Anderson hunt since he's from Denmark. We had lots of fun running all over the city looking for his three statues - we only found two that my book said and found a third in the H.C. Anderson museum so we dubbed that the third one. haha. And yes, I did buy a book a HC Anderson fairy tales. It's pretty much amazing!!!

One day while we were there we rented bikes and rode around the city which was really nice. We saw a lot of gardens, we saw the Queen's Palace and the Marble church as well as the cemetery where Anderson, Kierkegaard and Neils Bohr are buried. So it was a pretty cool trip all around. We also wandered up and down the pedestrian area a lot and had Danishes! Yummm!!! Other than that we just had a really relaxing trip and all of that jazz....I'll write more later, this is just a summary.


As for Prague, it got off to a rough start because Alyssa's flight was cancelled and we didn't get ahold of each other until later so I didn't know where she was and was really confused and scared, so I went to the hotel and checked in. She ended up getting in Friday night instead of Thursday night so I spent Friday wandering around Prague by myself. It was a little weird, but I love Prague! It's gorgeous. The architecture is amazing and you can really get a sense of how rough their history has been. My favorite things were the Prague Castle/Charles Bridge and then the Astronomical clock which was just sooooooo cool!! We went to go see the Jewish Quarter (what they called the Jewish Ghetto, which is an accurate name, but just doesn't seem right either...) but most of it was closed because it was passover. So in that respect, I think maybe Easter wasn't the best time to go visit Prague because a lot of things were closed or on holiday hours. But I really liked the architecture. I had a tourbook of Prague that said that there were some houses in Prague that are so old, they were there before there were house numbers so to tell them apart they'd put images of their professions or something similar over their doors - so I went on a treasure hunt to find all of them. Twas quite amusing. And by all of them I mean the ones that were mentioned in book :-)

I just got to Greece this afternoon, and we just booked a couple of tours to get a feel for the city. We're getting up really early tomorrow because our tour starts at 7:45 which is just so early, but I'm also very excited.

Anyways, I miss all of you and I'm really sorry I haven't been better and staying in touch and/or updating my blog!!!