This blog is longgg overdue! I've been so busy this week, between schoolwork and catching up on sleep after a long but amazing travel week! We left two Saturdays ago- October 1st- for Paris, which I LOVED! Our flight was early Saturday morning out of Venice (our program had a bus take us from campus). Once we got there, things were a little hectic- four of us decided to check a bag since the cheap airline here is super strict about carry-on size. But there was ...

Well, this weekend was one of the most fun and craziest of my life! It all started early Friday morning- our bus to Munich left campus at 4am. After a long but BEAUTIFUL bus ride (all through Austria and the Alps), we got to Munich around 10:30am. From there we had to catch a train to our campsite called Weis'n Camp. There were a bunch of us from my program who were all staying there so we all traveled together. We got to the camp which was already loud and crazy...

So this past weekend we went to Cinque Terre... kind of. A bus was organized to take us there which left our campus at 3:00am Saturday morning which Mandy and I almost missed! Lauren had to come up to our room and wake us up so we had to rush to get changed- luckily we were fully packed, so we just had to run out to the bus but we were the last people on! Haha! It was about a 5 1/2 hour bus ride to the La Spezia train station- which is a town right outside of C...

Quick update- Headed to Cinque Terre for the weekend with a bunch of kids on my program! I will post pics and details next week! :)

The past few days have been pretty insane! First of all, starting last Wednesday we had a 2 and a half-day leadership training program called LIFE which was SO intense. At first, all of my friends and I really, really disliked it but by the end, we were so happy we did it. It was pretty helpful and interesting but most of all, it helped us all really get to know the other kids on our trip! There were a lot of public speaking, leadership, team building, etc. exerc...