Long time no blog

I know I've been really bad at updating this, mostly because the website gives me a really hard time about signing in and whatnot. So finally I managed to sign in and a lot's happened since my last post. I'll try to stick to the more interesting things, in chronological order.

I went to Paris for 5 days at the end of February with my friend Zach. We saw a lot of sights: Eiffel Tower, Sacre Coeur, Moulin Rouge, Notre Dame, the Seine, etc. I had a really awesome fresh baguette and we went in about 6 different pet stores. Pictures are on my flickr site: HERE.

The weekend after that our program went on a field trip to Belfast with our history professor. We saw all the political murals from the times of "the troubles" and went to the transport museum to see an exhibit about the Titanic (which was built in Belfast). Considering it sank, you'd think they wouldn't want to advertise that. We had Indian food for dinner and I got a dish I actually liked. It was cool.

About two weeks ago, we picked our bands for the final music video. I'll be doing a song by The Dirty Epics called "The Cure". All the bands are Irish, mostly based in/around Dublin. The song I'm doing is very pop-punk and it's a girl-fronted band, so that'll be cool.

And now, the present. I just got back from spring break last night. My friend Briin and I went to Milan, Italy for two nights, then we met up with our friends Betty and Katie in Tarifa, Spain. Tarifa is the southern-most point of Europe and it's known for being really windy. It had beautiful beaches, but was insanely windy, so we didn't really get to enjoy them (not warm enough anyway). From Tarifa we took one day trip to Morocco, but it was really scary so we only stayed for about 3 hours. As soon as we got off the ferry in Morocco there were guys everywhere trying to get us to pay them to give us a tour around the city. They were relentless, and obviously going to send us down a dark alley to get knifed. We took another day trip from Tarifa to Gibraltar, and that was pretty enjoyable. We walked/hiked to the top of the Rock of Gibraltar. There are these apes that live on the rock and we hung out with them for a little while. They sort of attacked Betty (probably by accident) and were trying to open my backpack at one point. They're obviously very used to people. It was really cool.

So, in the last month I have been to: Paris, France; Belfast, Northern Ireland (U.K.); Milan, Italy; Tarifa, Spain; Tanger, Morocco; Gibraltar (owned by Britain) and back to Ireland. I've spoken English, Italian, French, and some really bad Spanish. My favorite Spanish word I learned was "hamberguesa". And I also learned that a small donkey would be a "burrito". Hahaha. Spring break was awesome AND educational. So that's a pretty good recap for what I've been doing up until now without delving into gross detail, I'll try to have some more pictures up soon. Ciao ragazzi!