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So if all goes well, I will soon be released into the wild! As a result, it's time to get this blog fixed up and start using it web 2.0 style. That's right - with pictures. Go Harvard!

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Day 3, Mon May 31Seattle Rock Orchestra - who knew there was an Arcade Fire cover band???Drive By TruckersQuasiPassion PitJapandroidsNo AgeBand of HorsesNew Pornographers 1. Sing Me Spanish Techno 2. Up in the Dark 3. Myriad Harbor 4. Use it 5. The Laws Have Changed 6. Crash Years 7. Silver Jenny Dollar 8. Jessica Numbers 9. Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk 10. Challengers 11. Testament to Youth in Verse

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Day 2, Sun May 30CaribouMidlakeLocal NativesThe Long WintersRob RiggleCymbals Eat GuitarsKid CudiTeagan + SaraLCD SoundsystemPavementPublic Enemy

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Day 1, Sat May 29Brother AliMinus the BearPortugal the ManEdward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros (1st half)OK Go (2nd half)Broken Social Scene 1. World Sick 2. Stars and Sons 3. Texico Bitches*This is when we were asked if we had any acid 4. 7/4 Shoreline 5. Fire Eyed Boy 6. Forced to Love 7. All to All 8. Sweetest Kill 9. Cause=Time 10. Meet Me in the BasementWhy? 1. These Hands 2. Vowels 3. These

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It has been a busy couple of days. I got into Amsterdam on Sat. morning with no problems. Bright and early found the apartment aaron and his friend laurence were staying at. They dragged me around town for the whole day - lots of wandering plus the Rijksmuseum and the Anne Frank House (I finally went in!) I was dragging at the end of the day though. Next day we slept in and then rented bikes

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So it's been ages since I posted, but I figure a trip to the Bahamas is worthy of at least a few paragraphs. First if you just want the overall trip summary: Nassau had some lovely beaches- I enjoyed the time in the sun and water- but it is definitely not my scene and I don't anticipate every going back.Aaron and I got in Sunday afternoon and caught a cab to our hotel - Orange Hill Beach Inn.

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A Sat-Mon long weekend acting as my spring break in New York City! Headed out with Tania (flew - JetBlue rocks my world) on Sat. night and her parents picked us up and drove us to their place in Flushing, Queens. Did the parent thing where they fed us sandwiches and crepes before I took the train into downtown to meet the college friends. Sooooo wonderful to see everyone in symphonic band!! I

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So obviously I have not been in Cambodia for the past 5 months. I actually survived that nasty case of water? poisoning. I went with Vern in a tuktuk out to see the killing fields and S-21 prison. Depressing stuff, made harder to deal with by the involvement of the US more or less using Cambodia as a pawn to get into Vietnam.But on a lighter note, I spent a week at home in september and got to

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So if you were wondering, i am indeed still alive and currently in phnom penh. Left Bangkok with Kirk last friday on the 5:55am train to aranyaprathet. quite a lovely journey really, very scenic - and only 48baht! arrived there about 11:20 and took a saengtaew to the border for 10baht. there you get to wait in line to get stamped out of thailand and then walk across a 50 or 100m wide strip of

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So this last weekend was mothers day here in Thailand (ie the Queen's birthday.) Quite a big deal here as it is an official national holiday with it's own flower, symbol, etc. However, for us just an extra day off of work to travel! Just Hannah, Travis, and me on this trip - we left town about 6pm on Thursday on a super nice bus with seats that went almost all the way back. Unfortunately

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Well this past weekend ended up being needed relaxation. On Friday night, I met up with Hannah and Kirk over by Lumpini night bazaar to check out Thai boxing - Muay Thai. Unfortunately, once we found the stadium we also found out they have a double pricing standard for foreigners. Voted too expensive by our group we headed over to the beer/food garden (described in an earlier post) phad thai

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So it's already August! The summer is almost gone... We spent this past weekend on a trip planned by the Chulalongkorn Thai students. Left incredibly early on Saturday and began what became almost a 6 hr minivan ride replete with flat tire to our destination near Pitsanalok.Once there we checked into our 'resort' which actually was pretty swanky - bungalows with ac/tv/fridge/showers - everything!

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So time to update after the long 4 day weekend (Buddhist holiday!) Left work early last wednesday to meet up with Hannah, Kirk and Travis on Khao San to hop a bus south to the island of Ko Tao, located near the more famous Ko Samui in the Gulf of Thailand. The journey there was impressively long. It took us only 12 hrs to get to Krabi which is technically further away but closer to 17 to get

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Weekend 1 - Grand Palace, etc: http://share.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=EeANGTFo5cuXDqQBangkok miscellaneous: http://share.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=EeANGTFo5cuXDuASorry for all the links but I don't know how else to do it!! Hope you can be bothered...Enjoy

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Summary of last week= lots of eating and sleeping. Mon and Tues were both go home, eat and sleep evenings. Then on Wed. I got an email from Alan Welch, a friend from the SOS at Purdue who is visiting Thailand with his wife Joyce. Ended up having dinner with them and their cousins - fellow Hoosiers and Boilermakers - at a great Thai restaurant not far from the skytrain. Really great to catch

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So I made it back from yet another incredible weekend. Hard to believe, but they really do keep getting better each time. We took off work early on Thurs to make our way to the Southern bus terminal via bus, skytrain, water taxi, and regular taxi - only 2 hrs total from CRI which is pretty good! This city is insane for lack of organization and consistant public transport. ah well. This weekend's

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So this weekend was a lovely trip out of town to a province about 2 hrs West of Bangkok, in fact Kanchanaburi Province borders Burma itself. There were 5 of us in the big group: me, Hannah, Travis, Kirk, and Elliot. Doug ended up sick and the couple went on their own as usual and for the best. The adventure began with us attempting to catch a taxi at Victory Monument, apparently the only

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Well took awhile to find a decent connection, and then I had to use a new site but here goes:http://share.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=EeANGTFo5cuXDg4Good luck and enjoy!

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So I've survived another working week (maybe got a reaction to work, did an aerobics class in Thai, and gave a presentation on Fri) and just returned from the planned weekend trip with our Thai students.Oi and the other CRI students organized this trip, leaving hella early on Saturday from our rooms to minibus about an hour and a half west of Bangkok. First we checked in at Dara Resort where we

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So to wrap up my first week: Wed was another relatively non-eventful day at work except that I finally met my advisor and had a short talk with him. Apparently I'm synthesizing this natural product that hasn't even been biologically tested. Ah well, we can't all do exciting chemistry I suppose. At least things are laid back around here. Thursday was our day long language and culture class

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So currently wrapping up my second day of 'work.' The Thai's seem to be incredibly relaxed about things and I've already started adding 10 or 15 minutes to any scheduled time. Showing up early is out of place! So Saturday afternoon they had us all gathered together. Met the 8th guy - Kirk from Idaho goes to Western Kentucky, so Purdue definitely wins the big school catagory on this trip. They

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Alright - I've made it to Thailand in one piece!During our last couple of days in China, the weather was not at it's best but we attempted to see the remainder of the main tourist sites. On Wednesday, Ash slept in so Les and I walked south over to the Temple of Heaven where the Emperor used to go to pray for good harvests and whatnot. The grounds were twice the size of the Forbidden city, so we

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So to catch up on the past few days:Sunday morning we headed over to one of the more famous Sunday morning markets whose name I can neither pronounce nor spell correctly. At any rate, the thing was basically the largest garage sale ever. 20 rows of vendors selling beads, at least as many each selling antique furniture, carvings, pottery, carpets, and tapestries. That doesn't even include the

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So we spent our extra day (Thursday) in Shanghai hanging out with Hannah Phares and watching our bootleg DVD's - I got to see star wars III which was actually a pretty good copy except that the script at the beginning was randomly in Greek or something.So overnight train to Xi'an which took maybe 15 hrs or so. We had beds near each other in a 'hard sleeper.' In this sort of car there are

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Well to further the Huangshan adventure - after we hiked down the mtn and had been hanging around Tangkou, we were convinced to go visit the local 9 dragon waterfalls... What we didnt know is that it was a further hike up and down in the hottest part of the day. Definitely gets up over 90 most days and wicked humid. Good practice for Thailand. So completely exhausted, we got ourselves on the

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Alright. Well apparently I can work this now. Arrived Tues evening, hung out in the airport for a couple of hours to wait for Les and Ashley on their Northwest flight. I was able to buy a phonecard from a random cleaning lady when the machine wouldn't take my 100RMB bills. (exchange rate is 8 to 1 or so) Then was asked to translate Spanish between an airport worker and a poor Spanish lady who

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okay, i wrote a whole little thing about what we'd done but apparently accidentally deleted it since i can not for the life of me figure out which of these buttons at the bottom means publish... so this is a test

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Alright, so after an incredibly awesome party at our house last night (3rd times a charm), I'm now at a friends home in Indianapolis awaiting the flight out. I really thought 2 weeks would seem longer, but I definitely felt rushed to get ready. Ah well, bags are packed and I'm flying out tomorrow morning at 7am to meet Les and Ash at the airport before finding the hostel and more importantly

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So even though very few people ever look at this.. here is another update!I just finished up my first set of grad school visits. A little more stressful since both of these visits were actual interviews. Anyway, a week ago Thursday I headed out to San Diego to check the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI). Met at the airport by my grad student liason, Jeremy Mills, a third yr in the Shultz lab.

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Well, I may not have updated this thing very often - but only for want of exciting activties not involved in simple collegiate survival. This weekend however was definitely an exception..... Started out normally enough for a drumline roadtrip - some what slow. Took us about 10 hrs to get to Penn State. Leaving at around 4:30 or 5 pm IN time. Definitely in the middle of nowhere!! There is one

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http://www.edoud.fotopic.net/ for all of the photos from Australia, Fiji, and New Zealand

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for those of you who dont get enough pics of the band: http://www.purduebandfan.com/ WARNING: if you have a slow connection do not bother! it will take forever

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So I thought I wrote an update since skydiving out in the glaciers of new zealand! apparently it didnt take if i did write something. A full day bus ride to Queenstown where the place was in full swing for ski season. Nice quiet hostel. Spent the next day out and about tramping around town - lucked out and had good weather. gorgeous setting. Glacial lakes set amongst snow covered mountains.

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so saturday my plan of having a drink at the pub and going to bed was foiled by the rugby match and hanging out with the group of irish i met on the glacier hike - never a chance of keeping up with them! anyway, made it to bed around 3:30... then an 8am bus to fox glacier. pouring in the morning on sunday. cleared up enough and i took a LONG hike out to the glacier by myself. also another short

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so i'm in new zealand now for real. and it likes to rain here. got into christchurch on wed night - kevin felder - band friend studying abroad- met us at the airport and helped us get into town and to a hostel. emily and i ended up changing in the morning to this super nice all womens hostel down the street. free soup and even hot towels for goodness sake! spent thurs morning getting travel

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from the Auckland airport en route to Christchurch... Stayed up all night with friends on the 2nd, bus left thehotel at 4am... not so fun. and i was feeling pretty sick and stupidly popped some benedryls so was basically incoherent in my goodbyes. sad times indeed :( but emily and i made it to Fiji. we were met by Simon who was our homestay host. he drove us back to his family's place in

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so friday was all about finding free activities. jaime, emily, jenn and i headed over to the botanical gardens and found cool spiders and pretty flowers. wandered on the jungle boardwalk and hiked a trail up a hill to a lookout pt. then walked the 3k or so back to the hotel. had our fairwell dinner, free and tasted like it ;) then i finally had a night out on the town... back at 3am still

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so spent all afternoon at 'the lagoon' which is the fake beach and ocean pool thing in downtown Cairns.  Goodtimes though as it was with much of the energy mob.  and let the record show that i am NOT sunburned!! finally learned how to use sunscreen maybe??  Anyway, got back, had a big meeting with activities to sign up for, and then went with Erica, Helen, Claire, Dan, and Mark to see what we

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Well, i dont really have much to update on.  they have a lot of bats in australia - and they are all GIANT. Classes are done though!! can't believe summer is running away from me so fast.  been spending most of my free time just hanging out by the beach.  felt unwell yesterday but have more or less recovered.  we are staying at a resort hotel which is incredibly awesome.  i'll enjoy the

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So anyway... I finished my gigantic history paper!! huzzah. definitely the accomplishment of last week.  Last Tuesday had an excursion around the Rocks area of Sydney with Bruce and Rawe - a great pictoral history with a free pint at the end ;)  quayle ale is good stuff!  lord nelson's microbrewery.  Met Jenn Fisher for dinner again on Wednesday - a great Indian place - with Emily and Helen. 

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So I lied about all the wandering that was going to happen on Friday.  I ended up going to the library and reading, etc for the history paper. of course not getting any work done really.  then it was time for rugby league - the sydney roosters v. the st. george dragons! an intense quasi-local rivalry.  luckily it didnt rain or anything and the roosters pulled out a win in the second half.  still

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ah, i have left this too long again! so heres a wrap up of the past week: saturday - as i left you, went downtown with Dukie program friends Helen and Nina where we wandered the area of Sydney market and visited the Rocks weekend markets for a couple of hrs. Finished up in the downtown area window shopping and hopped a bus back just as it started to pour. a quiet night for most of us that

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Well the past few days in Sydney have been incredibly busy - I feel as if I'm running from class to excursion to activity to doing work and finally to bed. The constant off and on rain has been a bummer too. It would figure of course that a city in one of its worst droughts would get rain from the moment I arrived. Yesterday after class I had my surfing lesson at Bondi. Went with several other

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What better way to celebrate the 4th of July then by sitting on a bus from 9am until 3:30pm? Ack. way too much sitting for me! The scenery, I suppose, was at least a good way of really feeling the emptiness that is central australia. We arrived in time to drop our stuff off in rooms (most of the program stayed in a hostel/lodge type thing) or in my case a tent (wasn't bad, had a real bed in

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Well I haven't really done THAT much, but I suppose that an update on location at least is deserved at this point. Monday and Tuesday of this week were great, relaxing, hang out around Darwin in the sun type days. I even managed to get up and out with people on Monday night! My elective class met on Wed. and Thurs. Environmental History of australia - taught by prof. Tony - a friend of

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So I just returned last night from our 3 day/2 night trek into the bush of Kakadu. Good times indeed - even with GTers scared of mozzys (mosquitos) and giant spiders in tents (well, more understandable, but, really screaming wasn't necessary.) Friday: Got up too early, packed (very little as i basically wore the same outfit just adding or removing a sweater as needed) and piled into one of two

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Lots of catching up to do: Saturday night, ate out and hanging out till semi-late. Sunday: woke up, went to the beach for a bit, orientation session from 2-4pm. they gave all 130 of us a brief overview of what to expect living in Darwin, including a 25 minute summary of Australian language/culture/history. Also our guides in Kakadu gave us a bit of an itinerary as each group is rotating in

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So i traveled for 36 hours straight to get here - plenty of time to calculate that on the 24 hours spent on planes. it actually wasnt all THAT bad. watched several movies, got some sleep, started meeting people from the program in LAX - waiting in an absolutely hellish line to check in for the Qantas flight to Brisbane. And on the flight from brisbane to darwin over half the plane was made up

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i'll be getting on a train to get on a plane to go home in 6 hours. see you all soon!

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So Thursday morning, I decided to head to Oxford for a day trip. Unheard of for English people who would only consider the 1hr+ one trip for a longer amount of time - a weekend or a week! Walked into town and hit up the Ashmolean museum first - a free activity. I think it may well rank among the most random museums I have ever been to, containing statues from Egypt and Greece, printings from

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Well, 3 exams to study for and I still decided to go to Amsterdam for a couple of days. At least I studied on the plane ride there and back! We left on Wednesday night and arrived in enough time to wander around the town viewing the night life. Stayed in a hostel on the south edge of the center of town, so large amounts of walking were the order of the trip. The first night we found our way

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pictures of the hike in wales are now up: Pembrokeshire Coastal Path

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Started out on Friday by turning in my huge chemistry coursework! huzzah. then caught the 10:22 train to London. Turns out Jim and Dawn (Americans) were on the same train but headed to Oxford for the day, and Les and his parents (more Americans) were on their way to London as well. So arriving in the city at noon I had a good 5 hours of wandering - went to the British museum for awhile.

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well just got back from a very quick trip up to Chester - right on the border of Wales and N. England. After my full day of lectures (2 of them plus a workshop and making sure my bio practical got turned in on time) I hopped on a train headed north. After the incredibly typical yet still painful delays, ended up in the Chester train station. Managed to find Beth, who I originally met back in

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alright, since attending this 'alternative ball' thing is the only even quasi-adventure that i've done in the past week, I thought I'd give ya all a review of the bands there. and if you're thinking "i dont care cause i will never see these random english bands" oh well. ;) kingskin - described themselves as 'grunge funk = funge' and i would have a hard time putting it better. first couple

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yep, do it - click on the link to the right. More photos up in the Scotland folder and a few of the adventures incurred with my flatmates. NOTE: you can now leave comments about any of my posts! so do it up!

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Quick update for those of you still checking this out. Headed West to Wales on Thursday morning. Clay,, Les, and I took several trains to arrive at Fishguard Harbor. We got there in the afternoon so had plenty of time to hike up to the village, explore, and settle in at the backpackers hostel there. Quite a quaint little place. Steve, the hostel owner, was full of helpful hints for our

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So not much new really. Random news is that I was running on Saturday while wearing a Purdue shirt of some sort, and two people on bikes came from behind me and yelled 'go purdue' at me. So of course I yelled something similar back, and they stopped to have a chat. Turns out they were a brother and sister from Ft. Wayne of all places and they'd been living in England for the past few years.

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Go look at all the pics I put up! (Link to the right)

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Well, nothing quite so spectacular as the three week spring break saga, but here's what I've been up to. As of this week I will only have 2 hrs of class mon and 2 hrs on wed. Apparently since my biology class was meeting an incredible 3x a week, lectures finish nearly a month early. In my biopolymers class, I tend to chuckle under my breath as the lecturer explains DNA replication, PCR

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Thursday night: arrived in Edinburgh, bus to city center, without trouble found my hostel, checked in and wandered the streets. Went up to the Edinbugh castle which is quite spectacular at night. Friday: Met the tour group at 8am. While waiting I ran into Sophie and 2 other people from the Ireland tour! Such a small world - they were headed out on a 4 day tour that same day with the same

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Saturday: Made it up to Uni just before 9am. On the bus met another girl going on the field trip, Luisa. Met a few more people on the 3 hour bus ride (alright and took a nap too.) Arrived at the Worms Head Hotel, got changed, and headed straight outside to get working... in POURING rain. sigh, it is Wales afterall. We went from collecting random bus to practicint island biogeography theory

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Alright, after the 2 week intermission it is time to finish describing the Ireland trip with my parents. Wednesday: Heading North from Kilarney to Galway, we stopped mid-morning for an intense Gaelic football rematch game, and then just barely caught the ferry across the River Shannon. Next stop were the incredible Cliffs of Moher - think of the huge, sheer cliffs used in the Princess Bride.

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First night: We checked into the hostel and walked around downtown Dublin. Admiring the kilts that everyone had on for the Ireland/Scotland rugby match that was on that evening. monday: We met the paddywagon tour in Dublin, there were 32 of us on our bus. Headed immediately south stopping at Cashel Rock, a couple of castles, and a trip to kiss the Blarney stone. We stopped for the night in

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Well, this will hopefully be a very fast update. Mom and dad arrived a week ago, met me here in Bath, and we all rented a car from the Bristol airport. A very tense ride ensued as dad practiced staying left and using roundabouts. At any rate, we made it to Avebury unscathed just after sunset. We stayed at an excellent B&B right in the middle of the stone circle there. The rooms were gorgeous

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so yet again way too long between posts... Last Sunday, I picked up Mr. Andy Butler from the airport and helped him get to Bath. Ditched him the next day to go to all my classes (and a wine tasting seminar...) On Tuesday we departed Bristol airport for Dublin with about 6 other Americans most of whom are studying at Bath too. We rented a pretty nice apartment (meant for 5 people, shared by 8-

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The Paris Hitch photos are up - just click the PHOTOS link on the right!

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Well this past week has been quite an adventure. On Tuesday I participated in a pub quiz - quite a common thing over here. My team of 5 came in second and won 75 pounds despite my terrible showing in the nature/science category (I mean, really, they did NOT teach us in bio that a group of frogs is called an army!) At any rate that was enough to get me 15 pounds and our team invited back to

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Another week gone by... Nothing incredibly significant happening on this side of the pond. Still in search of a job. Trouble is that in a few weeks I'll be off traveling for 3 weeks straight... so now I'm searching for temping type positions. Wednesday night went out with a bunch of british management post-grads. Definitely hanging out with a different crowd here then I would at home. Quite

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What you've all been waiting for - I got my pictures back today! They should be up on the internet. Obviously I didn't quite know what I was doing, so every picture taken thus far is in the same gallery. Sorry if it causes problems for those with slow internet connections.... So go here: http://www.edoud.fotopic.net/

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alright as i actually have stories from the past two days, i'll go ahead and update. yesterday in its entirety was spent in london (well and on the bus there and back.) after the chaos of being dropped off in the massive complex of victoria stations, julie, darchelle, and I headed to Buckingham palace for the Fabrage exhibit. Quite an impressive display - from 'practical objects' to the famous

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I guess I should start with this past weekend. I did not travel anywhere. Instead, I embraced my status as an 'international student.' By going to parties with my flatmates and sleeping in late. I guess I never find it less entertaining to be the only American and be identifyed vaguely by my accent. Friday night was a birthday party at the house of some Spanish girls. Then, on Saturday

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so it has been awhile... First my flatmates have been absolutely wonderful. 3 are also new exchange students: Jean from Chile, Claude from Luxembourg, and Jakub from Czech rep. The others have been here awhile and the girls are actually working and not students: Danny from England, Harry from Japan, Mandy from Germany, and Suzanne from Scotland. Quite an iternational group for sure.

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so time for a better update from bath. After a lovely night sleep in my own room and bed - at last... Yesterday went on a trip with a bunch of the exchange students to Stonehenge and Salisbury. A beautiful sunny morning until we stepped out of the bus at stonehenge and were hit by stinging rain sleet. ack. glorious english weather for ya. Did the walk around the stones, impressive of course if

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Spent a few hours wandering around Topkapi Palace on Thursday morning. Definitely impressive - the residence of the Ottoman Emperors. After getting a bit cold, I headed back to the hostel for a break and then off to a Hamam. Ah. we definitely need those in Indiana. Something to do on cold winter afternoons. It's really just like a massage in a bubblebath. And then the marathon journey

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I don't think I did much after Taxim Square... Walked a french and american to the metro stop to figure out where it is when I have to go to the airport. then got followed back by a weird old guy. I have resorted to speaking only in Spanish and calling them names in said language. no one here speaks it. and they still dont leave me alone. everyone in the world just trying to sell carpets. geez

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and i did go out that night. around the corner to TNT bar where they had a live band. a school holiday so not many people around. pretty interesting range of music - the first song i heard was "perhaps, perhaps,perhaps" by Cake...but in Turkish. definitely odd. so i just hung out. tasted raki for the first time. the worst tasting drink i can imagine - i am obviously not a fan of aniseed.

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back to update you all.... thıs mornıng woke up way too early to go on a tour of Troy. The sıte ıs about half an hour away from Çanakkale. Defınıtely very cold and very wındy. The only others on the tour were a couple from Sıngapore and a brother and sıster from Canada. Troy ıs no where near as ımpressıve a whole as Ephesus. Stıll, ıt ıs amazıng to peel back layers of tıme to see the 9

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Managed to survıve the 15 hour bus rıde from Cappadocıa to Çanakkale. 15 HOURS!! sometımes I wonder about my sanıty. It dıd provıde a few amusements - the 17 year old that sat next to me for a whıle used all hıs englısh on me and seemed absolutely ın love. no wonder the amerıcans ın Sofıa told me I would want to brıng back a harem of 16 year old Turkısh boys. haha... terrıble! A lovely

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i'm currently ın the Neveşir bus statıon preparıng to depart Cappadocia. My evenıng ın Konya was spent wanderıng and of course eatıng somesort of kebab... Ran ınto the same guys that took me to the ınternet cafe and had about 5 more cups of tea wıth them. Serıously I have never been a tea drınker, but ıts fast becomıng a habıt. Nıce to talk to some people my age and kındof hear what Konya '

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sorry to keep you waitıng, but a good internet connectıon ıs hard to fınd! Fırst - thanks to those who saıd a word of ınterventıon on behalf. My day trıp to Selçuk and Ephesus was absolutely gorgeous. Transport was free wıth my raılpass - although every sıngle tıcket collector mostly just looked confused and then asked where ı was goıng. At any rate, Selçuk ıs a nıce town - old roman

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ı apologıze for any odd letters or punctuatıon marks ın the followıng updates as turkısh keyboards are somewhat dıfferent. Fırst - fınıshıng my sofıa tale. defınıtely a cıty one could stay longer ın. I dıd meet mıguel and adam - the two amerıcans that had been at the art hostel sınce around chrıstmas. Sofıa ıs compact enough that you can see ıt all ın a day at most 2. so what do amerıcans

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status: alive, well, not at all stolen by gypsies... At any rate I am using the convenient internet place across the street from the 'art hostel' that I am staying at in Sofia, Bulgaria. I rolled into town around 6:30am. First, however, Bucharest: I had planned to perhaps stop by Sinaia on the way but there was not time so I had a few hours to wander around Brasov some more. pretty place for

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I have an hour of free internet access at the hostel here in Brasov, so I thought I'd grace you all with another update. I hoped on a very full couchette last night - got into one of the very top bunks.. I must be getting the hang of it since I slept quite well. This morning the kind romanian couple left in the couchette gave me all sorts of advice about avoiding gypsies and not going out after

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So here is a quick update... After the last update, I wandered the heck out of Budapest, going all over central Pest and even up around Buda, getting some incredible views. I decided that my family must be distantly magyar, as their first christian king (St. Stephen) looks an awful lot like dad - even similar crowns ;) At any rate, got decidedly hungry and ate chinese before taking a quick

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I lied about that last part - we did not go see a puppet show. Took a nap, got up, ran over where the show was - found out it doesn't start till Jan 17th. Terrible. We did manage to get ourselves locked in the building, but luckily someone came along to let us out. so then there was a lot of wandering, avoiding a decision on dinner. then it was 11 and there was only one place open anyway.

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well, guess it's been a few days so i'll check in.. after my marathon of travel - had to have been a good 48 hrs of nonstop running around, trying to nap in buses, airplanes, and airports. I am now in prague and having quite a time! I enjoyed my 4 hours in Bath where the gals at the reception enjoyed my 'wonderful american accent.' haha. one kept telling stories about the 9 times she's been

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I have attempted my goodbyes... The saga will begin Sunday.

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