May!!

It's almost May and I am almost home. I have moved to another room at school and am just getting ready for finals and papers. This weekend I am going to a ball at Oxford, hopefully I am posh enough for it. Other than that, nothing too new. Talk to you soon!

I watched a really good movie called "Waltz for Bashir"; it was a really compelling story about the Lebanese war in the 1980s. It's an animation movie and I really never thought an animation film could be so real.

Where are my floods at?

Hi all,
I know I haven't really posted in awhile. After being back from break, I have been nonstop working on schoolwork and trying to pull everything together for the end of the semester. Yet I have an interesting story........

So at approximately 12 am Saturday morning the fire alarm in my building went off. It seems like a likely occurrence around here, so I grabbed my coat and phone and left. I went to another building and sat in there on the phone for a bit.

I come back to basically see water pouring out the side of my building. I tell the fire guy that I need to get my laptop; I go into my room to see that it's flooded, and there's a waterfall trickling down from the ceiling onto my computer... A water main on the floor above me broke and flooded the floor.
All of my electronics are broken, clothes are soaked, work is lost, and I had to move.
Interesting day.

Break.

I just tried to post pictures two times and my computer keeps freezing so I am doing it again. Third time's a charm... or is it?

Ireland!

I'm in Ireland right this second and there is some weird music on in the place I'm staying. I am in Killarney, in Kerry County. I just got back from Dublin last night. I probably won't be able to post pictures until I get back on the 13th of April. (I get back on the 12th, but will most likely be realllyy tired so yeah). Ireland is a beautiful place and we rode bikes around the countryside today. The music on in the hostel reminds me of Everything Is Illuminated.
Anyway, I go to Cork tomorrow, then the next day off to Madrid!! I'm excited to go to Spain but more excited to see Barcelona because it's a beach and I love beaches!! I'll post pictures as soon as I can, and I will try to keep in touch as much as possible! Love you all!

-Nick

Pre-Departure!

Hi all!

Here are some daffodils in Wales. They are everywhere.

So tomorrow morning, at 9am, we are off to Cardiff to do Spring Break. Here is the breakdown.

March 19th, 20th, 21st. Fly to Dublin, Ireland

March 22 Killarney, Ireland

March 23 Cork, Ireland

March 24th Fly to Madrid, Spain

March 27th Fly to Barcelona, Spain

March 29th Fly to Athens Greece

March 29th-April 3rd Cruise of Greek Islands

April 3rd Fly back to London, England

April 3rd, 4th stay in London, England

April 5th Fly to Rome, Italy

April 6th Rome, Italy

April 7th, 8th Florence, Italy

April 9th, 10th, 11th Venice, Italy

April 12th Fly back to London to get to Swansea, Wales!! :)

So there is my next 3 weeks. Non-stop, going, I'm excited and slightly nervous. I'm ready to enjoy it and have a good time. I'm not going to have internet and it's going to be a little hard to make phone calls, so I'm going to try to e-mail and call everybody as much as I can. As far as I know, I have Skype in Ireland and Italy. So, until next time, love you all!!

Weekend Update! with Nicole Henninger

I haven't written in awhile, so here is my story!
I've had a busy and rough week getting everything sorted out for Spring Break and all of the work that is coming after it. Here is my itinerary:

March 20th-24: Dublin, Cork, Killarney IRELAND
March 24th-29th: Madrid, Barcelona SPAIN
March 29th-April 3rd: Athens, and random Greek Islands for a cruise!! Check out the cruise here:
April 3rd-4th: Travel back to London to pick up Jeph for.....
April 5th-April 12th: Rome, Florence, Venice ITALY! :)

I will post more when I actually print everything out and have my exact dates for each city.

In the meantime, check out this video of a friend of mine singing at an open-mic night! With comments from Jeph!

I had a little visit from Hiroki this weekend so I showed him a bit of Swansea and on the way to the train station we met up with Jeph and ate at the Gourmet B (Burger king!)

That's about it!

I have to move all of my stuff out by Thursday night as I'm leaving on Friday morning to go to Dublin :) It's gonna be a hectic week, but I think I'm ready for it.

Sick, Tired, Homesick..

So it's about that halfway point and I supposed that means all three of the above. I'm sick, tired, and homesick. I am extremely stressed out about break amongst many other things which I don't feel like talking about. I'm going to Ireland next Friday and although I'm excited, I'm also worried about the rest of break. Most of my friends are travelling eastern Europe after Greece but I think I'm just going to come back and head to Italy for a few days with Jeph! Check out his blog out here http://jephunky.blogspot.com/

Anyway, I saw one of my friends play at an open mic night the other day so I'll post videos from that sometime.... Just getting through the crazy days!
I love and severely miss you all :)
-Nick