Some friends of mine were kind enough to let me stay in their apartment after my trip to Luxembourg since my bus to Paris left before metros started running. I ended up not getting a ton of sleep with the time change, but I had enough time to hide Easter eggs for the girls- it was my first time being the Easter bunny haha. I was so scared the whole time that they would wake up. I don't know how my parents do it year after year. I made it to the bus and fell aslee...

I did another day trip, this time to Luxembourg. We got there at 10am, and wandered around until we finally found the tourist office (we got split up from the group thanks to a red light). We got some info, then went to a bookstore, then to the Chocolate House. YUM. I got a praline hot chocolate and a chocolate mousse cake. Wow. I was counting lent as over at this point, but I definitely overdid the chocolate after being chocolate-sober for so long. Oh it was goo...

Saturday morning, Gina and I woke up really early to catch the metro to get on a bus to Amsterdam for the day. Luckily both our alarms worked, and we made it on the bus and even got seats next to each other on the top floor. It was about a 3.5 hour trip, and very beautiful. It was really interesting to see the Netherlands' countryside. There are canals EVERYWHERE. Canals ran along the entire highway, were all over farms, through the forest, even into peoples' bac...

This weekend my friend Anya from Marquette came to visit me in Lille for a day. She's studying abroad in Paris right now and wanted to see the city. We got some lunch right away since we were both very hungry, and we went to Le Broc so we walked away more than full. No matter how hungry I think I am, I am never hungry enough for that place. Cheese and beer and chocolate cake was definitely a good start to her visit to the northern lands. Then we went back to my d...

I think I'm going to use this entry throughout all of Lent, posting words and photos of my journey during this time, especially of things that make me happy :)<br style="line-height: 15.86px;">So check back for more! 1. So we are a few weeks from Easter and seeing as I'll be gone a lot up until then, I decided to write about Lent abroad now. I cannot lie, it has been tough and different from what I am used to. We were in Athens, Greece on Ash Wedensday, whi...